Transaction in Own Shares

23 July 2004

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 150,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 23 July 2004 it purchased for cancellation
150,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 272.3167p per share.

There are now 400,001,321 ordinary shares in issue.