Transfer of shares held in treasury

11 August 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 11 August 2008 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 1,809 ordinary shares
(1,419 ordinary shares for the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme at a price of
267 pence per share and 390 ordinary shares for the early exercise of shares
under the SAYE2006 scheme at a price of 325 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 288,071 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,779,099.