Transfer of shares held in treasury

12 November 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 12 November 2010 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 379 ordinary
shares (283 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2008
scheme at a price of 371 pence per share and 96 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 974,133 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,093,037.