Transaction in Own Shares

27 July 2004

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 200,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 27 July 2004 it purchased for cancellation
200,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 271.7443p per share.

There are now 399,801,321 ordinary shares in issue.