Transfer of shares held in treasury

30 June 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 30 June 2008 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 8,679 ordinary shares 
(8,436 ordinary shares for the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme at a price of 267
pence per share and 243 ordinary shares for the early exercise of shares held
in the SAYE2006 scheme at a price of 325 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 334,434 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,732,736.