Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
18 February 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 13 February 2008, 55,077,609 voting rights in the Company (representing
6.28% of the voting rights in the Company, of which 5.96% is direct and 0.32%
indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 6% in respect
of the direct holding (the previous notification being 6.43% of the voting
rights in the Company, of which 6.06% was direct and 0.37% indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was dated 15 February
2008.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

18 February 2008









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