Transfer of shares held in treasury

4 October 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 4 October 2010 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 145 ordinary shares for
the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2009 scheme at a price of 310 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 974,512 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,092,658.