Holding(s) in Company

SCHEDULE 10                                  

                   NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES                   

 1. Name of company
   
FirstGroup plc

 2. Name of shareholder having a major interest
   
Barclays PLC

(Barclays Global Investors Ltd; Barclays Global Investors Japan Limited,
Barclays Capital Inc; Barclays Private Bank and Trust Ltd; Barclays Life
Assurance Co Ltd; Barclays Capital Securities Ltd; Barclays Global Investors
N.A.; Barclays Global Investors Australia Ltd, Gerrard Ltd, Barclays Global
Investors Japan Trust and Banking, Barclays Global Investors Canada Ltd,
Barclays Global Fund Advisors)

 3. Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
    holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
    non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
    holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18
   
In respect of 2) above

 4. Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number
    of shares held by each of them
   
Bank of New York                                                 28,607
                                                                       
Barclays Capital Nominees Limited                             1,780,717
                                                                       
Barclays Capital Nominees Limited                                72,080
                                                                       
Boiss Nominees Ltd 4224361                                      373,137
                                                                       
Barclays Global Investors Canada                                 28,530
                                                                       
Chase Nominees Limited 16376                                    191,475
                                                                       
Chase Nominees Limited 21359                                     66,694
                                                                       
Chase Nominees Limited 28270                                    135,548
                                                                       
Clydesdale Nominees HGB0125 00059441401                           7,501
                                                                       
Gerrard Nominees Limited 622124                                   2,500
                                                                       
Gerrard Nominees Limited 660318                                  44,000
                                                                       
Gerrard Nominees Limited 660758                                  12,000
                                                                       
Gerrard Nominees Limited 660851                                   7,500
                                                                       
Gerrard Nominees Limited 768557                                  17,500
                                                                       
Greig Middleton Nominees Limited (GM1)                           41,184
                                                                       
Greig Middleton Nominees Ltd (GM3) 220805DN                     113,917
                                                                       
Investors Bank and Trust Co                                     275,156
                                                                       
Investors Bank and Trust Co                                   2,626,351
                                                                       
JP Morgan (BGI Custody) a/c 16331                                97,805
                                                                       
JP Morgan (BGI Custody) a/c 16341                               219,694
                                                                       
JP Morgan (BGI Custody) a/c 16400                             3,122,003
                                                                       
JP Morgan (BGI Custody) a/c 18409                               300,745
                                                                       
JPMorgan Chase Bank                                              12,668
                                                                       
JPMorgan Chase Bank                                              34,123
                                                                       
JPMorgan Chase Bank                                             162,178
                                                                       
JPMorgan Chase Bank                                             447,200
                                                                       
Master Trust Bank                                                29,767
                                                                       
Mellon Trust - US Custodian/                                     16,667
                                                                       
Mitsui Asset                                                      7,152
                                                                       
Morgan Stanley & Co.                                             19,982
                                                                       
R C Greig Nominees Limited                                      769,258
                                                                       
R C Greig Nominees Limited GP1                                   50,143
                                                                       
R C Greig Nominees Limited SA1                                   30,210
                                                                       
R C Greig Nominees Limited a/c AK1                              241,559
                                                                       
R C Greig Nominees Limited a/c BL1                               54,723
                                                                       
R C Greig Nominees Limited a/c CM1                               15,222
                                                                       
State Street Bank & Trust Co                                      8,168
                                                                       
State Street Boston                                             192,479
                                                                       
Trust & Custody Services Bank                                    83,841
                                                                       
UBS (Master)                                                    299,676

 5. Number of shares/amount of stock acquired
   
 6. Percentage of issued class
   
 7. Number of shares/amount of stock disposed
   
 8. Percentage of issued class
   
 9. Class of security
   
Ordinary shares of 5 pence each

10. Date of transaction
   
29 September 2006

11. Date company informed
   
Notification dated 2 October 2006 received 4 October 2006

12. Total holding following this notification
   
12,039,660

13. Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification
   
3.06 %

14. Any additional information
   
Figures are based on shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) of 393,202,052

15. Name of contact and telephone number for queries
   
Eileen Malcolmson, Legal Adviser and Assistant Company Secretary, Tel: 01224
650007

16. Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making
    this notification
   
Eileen Malcolmson

Date of notification: 6 October 2006