Purchase of Own Securities

2 December 2002

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 250,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 2 December 2002 it purchased for cancellation
250,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 223.408p per share.

Since FirstGroup plc started to buyback its ordinary shares on 7 June 2002 it
has repurchased for cancellation a total of 3,144,569 ordinary shares. There
are now 417,586,378ordinary shares in issue.