Transfer of shares held in treasury

15 July 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 15 July 2008 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE2004 scheme 13,769 ordinary shares
at a price of 267 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 309,705 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,757,465.