Purchase of Own Securities

3 September 2002

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 53,940 ordinary shares for cancellation               

FirstGroup plc announces that on 3 September 2002 it purchased for cancellation
53,940 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 243.1423p per share.

Since FirstGroup plc started to buyback its ordinary shares on 7 June 2002 it
has repurchased for cancellation a total of 1,728,940 ordinary shares leaving
418,102,007ordinary shares in issue.