Director Shareholding

FIRSTGROUP PLC NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS The company has today been informed that on 24 May 2005, David Leeder, UK Bus Director, exercised an award of 14,983 deferred nil-cost options over FirstGroup ordinary shares awarded under the FirstGroup plc Executive Annual Bonus Plan (the 'Bonus Plan'). To fund the tax and national insurance liabilities arising out of this exercise, he today sold 6,266 of those shares at 325 pence per share. As a result of these transactions, David Leeder now has beneficial interests in 10,171 FirstGroup ordinary shares. He retains options over 182,440 FirstGroup ordinary shares awarded under the FirstGroup plc Executive Share Option Scheme, which are subject to achievement of certain performance criteria, deferred share options over 27,104 FirstGroup ordinary shares under the Bonus Plan and options over 4,921 ordinary shares under the FirstGroup plc Savings-Related Share Option Scheme. Contact: Louise Ruppel, Company Secretary, FirstGroup plc 020 7291 0505

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