Purchase of Own Securities

13 December 2002

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 100,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 13 December 2002 it purchased for cancellation
100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 226.88p per share.

Since FirstGroup plc started to buyback its ordinary shares on 7 June 2002 it
has repurchased for cancellation a total of 3,543,612 ordinary shares. There
are now 417,287,335 ordinary shares in issue.