Transfer of shares held in treasury

25 March 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 25 March 2008 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 11,063 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 464,335 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 437,814,463.