Transfer of shares held in treasury

21 July 2008 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 21 July 2008 it transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 12,879 ordinary shares (10,067 ordinary shares for the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme at a price of 267 pence per share, 1,460 ordinary shares for the early exercise of shares held in the SAYE2006 scheme at a price of 325 pence per share and 1,352 ordinary shares for the early exercise of shares held in the SAYE2006B scheme at a price of 444 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 296,826 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,770,344.

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