Transfer of shares held in treasury

21 August 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 21 August 2006 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 8,762 ordinary shares at
a price of 192p per share. The shares were all formerly held as treasury
shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 5,558,757 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 393,192,564.