Transfer of shares held in treasury

4 August 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 4 August 2008 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 4,253 ordinary shares for
the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme 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 289,880 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,777,290.