Director Shareholding - Amendment

DEALINGS BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE FIRSTGROUP PLC EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP PLAN ('ESOP') The issuer advises that the following replaces the Director's Shareholding announcement released on 21 May 2002 under reference PRNUK-2105020906-5830. The number of shares acquired by the ESOP should state 206,984 and not 206,894 as stated in the original announcement. All other details remain unchanged. The amended text of the announcement is set out below: FirstGroup plc has received notice that on 17 May 2002 the Trustees of the ESOP acquired 206,984 ordinary shares of 5 pence in FirstGroup plc at a price of 281.4085 pence per share. This represents a part of the allocation of profits made by FirstGroup plc to the ESOP in respect of the year ended 31 March 2002. The trustees of the ESOP intend to make further share purchases out of the remainder of such allocation. Under the ESOP, unappropriated FirstGroup shares are held in trust for the executive directors and/or employees of FirstGroup or its subsidiaries. Consequently, the executive directors of FirstGroup plc are regarded as having a potential interest in these unappropriated shares held by the ESOP. The unappropriated shares held by the Trustees of the ESOP will be appropriated to participating employees on an equal basis in the near future. With the exception of the employee non-executive director, George Law, all other eligible directors have declined to participate in the forthcoming appropriation. 21 May 2002

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