Transfer of shares held in treasury

18 October 2007

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 18 October 2007 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 1,790 ordinary shares at
a price of 267 pence 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 3,263,933 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 435,014,865.