Transfer of shares held in treasury

25 September 2007

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 25 September 2007 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 288 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 3,267,224 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 435,011,574.