Transfer of shares held in treasury

5 February 2007

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 5 February 2007 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 49,847 ordinary shares at
a price of 232 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 3,476,543 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 395,274,778.