Transaction in Own Shares

5 July 2004

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 170,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 5 July 2004 it purchased for cancellation
170,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 279.2334p per share.

There are now 400,901,321 ordinary shares in issue.