Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
23 April 2008


                             HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')

                          DISCLOSURE OF VOTING RIGHTS

The Company has received a notification from Aviva plc and its subsidiaries
('Aviva') advising that Aviva now holds, as a result of a transaction that took
place on 21 April 2008, 43,211,654 voting rights in the Company (representing
4.93% of the voting rights in the Company, of which 4.66% is direct and 0.27%
indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 5% in respect
of the combined interest holding (the previous notification being 5.06% of the
voting rights in the Company, of which 4.79% was direct and 0.27% indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was dated 22 April 2008.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

23 April 2008










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