Purchase of Own Securities

25 November 2002

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 60,069 ordinary shares for cancellation               

FirstGroup plc announces that on 25 November 2002 it purchased for cancellation
60,069 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 227.9387p per share.

Since FirstGroup plc started to buyback its ordinary shares on 7 June 2002 it
has repurchased for cancellation a total of 2,650,069 ordinary shares. There
are now 418,080,878ordinary shares in issue.