Holding(s) in Company

Home Retail Group Plc
21 November 2006



                              HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')

                             HOLDING(S) IN COMPANY

Home Retail Group plc has received a notification from Citibank N.A. London
Branch advising that Standard Life Group now holds a material interest of
26,317,770 ordinary shares in the Company (representing 3.005% of the issued
ordinary share capital of the Company).

The notification was issued pursuant to Sections 198 to 202 of the Companies Act
1985 and was dated 16 November 2006.


Gordon Bentley
Secretary

21 November 2006


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