Transfer of shares held in treasury

22 April 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 22 April 2008 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 15,111 ordinary shares
(12,904 ordinary shares for the maturity of the SAYE 2004 scheme at a price of
267 pence per share, 956 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of
the SAYE 2006 scheme at a price of £3.25 pence per share and 1,251 ordinary
shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2006B scheme at a price of
£4.44 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 417,551 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 437,861,247.