Transfer of shares held in treasury

7 April 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 7 April 2008 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 15,392 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 439,654 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 437,839,144.