Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
18 October 2007


                             HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')

                          DISCLOSURE OF VOTING RIGHTS

The Company has received a notification from The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
advising that Goldman Sachs & Co., Goldman Sachs Asset Management International,
and Goldman Sachs Asset Management L.P. now hold, as a result of a transaction
that took place on 15 October 2007, 52,691,912 voting rights in the Company
(representing 6.01% of the voting rights in the Company, of which the whole
6.01% is indirect).

The threshold that was crossed or reached was 6.0% in respect of the total
holding (the previous notification being 5.02%, of which the whole 5.02% was
indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.5 (1) and was dated 17 October
2007.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

18 October 2007



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