Transfer of shares held in treasury

8 May 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 8 May 2006 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme, 14,349 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 6,525,853 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 392,225,468.