Purchase of Own Securities

18 November 2003

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 430,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 18 November 2003 it purchased for cancellation
430,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 287.4701p per share.

Since FirstGroup plc started to buyback its ordinary shares on 7 June 2002 it
has repurchased for cancellation a total of 13,064,626 ordinary shares. There
are now 407,766,321 ordinary shares in issue.