Transfer of shares held in treasury

19 March 2007

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 19 March 2007 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 5,565 ordinary shares at
a price of 232 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 3,369,558 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 434,909,240.