Transfer of shares held in treasury

16 December 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 16 December 2008 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 2,055
ordinary shares (283 for the exercise of options of the SAYE2004 scheme at a
price of 267 pence per share and 592 for the early exercise of options of the
SAYE2006 scheme at a price of 325 pence per share and 1,180 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 277,343 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,789,827.