Transfer of shares held in treasury

2 June 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 2 June 2008 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 5,699 ordinary shares (5,247
for the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme at a price of 267 pence per share, 234
for the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006 scheme at a price of 325
pence per share and 218 for the early exercise of options of 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 372,555 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,694,615.