Transfer of shares held in treasury

14 January 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 14 January 2008 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme for the early exercise of
options 4,056 ordinary shares (consisting of 2,635 ordinary shares at a price
of 267 pence per share, 895 ordinary shares at a price of 325 pence per share
and 526 ordinary shares 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 2,451,586 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 435,827,212.