Director/PDMR Shareholding

30 January 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                        Directors'/PDMRs' Shareholding                         

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") has received notice that on 29 January 2009 the
Trustees of the FirstGroup Employee Benefit Trust (the "EBT") acquired 12,081
ordinary shares of 5 pence in the FirstGroup plc at an average price of 276.03
pence per share. The EBT now holds 990,096 unallocated FirstGroup plc shares.

FirstGroup plc shares held by the EBT are used to satisfy awards made to
participants in the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme and Executive
Annual Bonus Plan.

The following executive directors and PDMRs of the Company are potential
beneficiaries of the EBT and are deemed to be interested in those shares for
the purposes of the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.2R.

Executive Directors                    PDMRs                                   
                                                                               
Sidney Barrie                          Rachael Borthwick                       
                                                                               
Dean Finch                             Clive Burrows                           
                                                                               
Moir Lockhead                          Nicholas Chevis                         
                                                                               
Nicola Shaw                            John Evans                              
                                                                               
                                       Eileen Malcolmson                       
                                                                               
                                       Paul Moore                              
                                                                               
                                       Michael Murray                          
                                                                               
                                       Carey Paster                            
                                                                               
                                       Louise Ruppel