Director's Notification of Dealing in Shares

FirstGroup PLC
4 July 2000

                                                                              
             FIRSTGROUP PLC - NOTIFICATION OF DIRECTORS INTERESTS             
 
On 3 July 2000, FirstGroup plc made awards to the Executive Directors under
its current Long Term Incentive Plan. Details are set out below.
 
An award consists of an option to acquire ordinary shares of 5p in the
Company at nil cost subject to certain performance conditions. The primary
condition is the level of total shareholder return achieved over a three year
performance period compared with that of other companies (excluding
investment trusts) in the FTSE 250 index. If the performance criteria are
met, awards may be exercised any time after the performance period end
(31.03.2003) until the 7th anniversary of the grant of the award.
 
If the shareholder return is in the top 25% of the Index, an award would be
exerciseable in respect of double the number of shares in the initial award.
Regardless of shareholder performance, an award will not be exerciseable
unless the Group has achieved growth in earnings per share greater than the
increases in RPI measured over the same performance period.
 
The maximum value of shares comprised within any award in any financial year
is limited to 40% of that director's annual salary at the date of grant. The
share value used for this calculation was the mid market price on 30 June
2000 being £2.36.
 

                                                                     
                            2000/01          2000/01                 
                            Initial Award    Maximum Possible Award  
           M Lockhead       55,084           110,168                 
           JA Osbaldiston   46,610            93,220                  
           RA Duncan        37,288            74,576                  
           MJ Mitchell      33,898            67,796                  
           I Lanaghan       27,966            55,932