Transfer of shares held in treasury

1 May 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 1 May 2009 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 52,365 ordinary shares 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 220,309 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,846,861.