Transfer of shares held in treasury

7 July 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 7 July 2008 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 10,960 ordinary shares
(10,482 ordinary shares for the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme at a price of
267 pence per share and 478 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 323,474 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,743,696.