Purchase of Own Securities

18 November 2002

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 250,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 18 November 2002 it purchased for cancellation
250,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 235.0p per share.

Since FirstGroup plc started to buyback its ordinary shares on 7 June 2002 it
has repurchased for cancellation a total of 2,590,000 ordinary shares. There
are now 418,140,947ordinary shares in issue.