Correction : Transfer of shares held in Treasury

This replaces the announcement released earlier today at 1420
hours where the price per share was stated as 197p per share. It should have read 192p
per share. Please find below the full and correct text.



1 February 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ('the Company') announces that on 1 February 2006 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme, 2,067,527 ordinary
shares at a price of 192p per share. The shares were all formerly held as
treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 8,533,285 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 390,218,036.