Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

FirstGroup PLC
16 June 2000


DEALINGS BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE FIRSTGROUP PLC EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP PLAN
('ESOP') 
 
FirstGroup plc has today received notice that on 15th June 2000 the Trustees
of the ESOP acquired 444,156 ordinary shares of 5 pence in FirstGroup plc at a
price of 236.6785 pence per share.
 
This represents the final part of the allocation of profits made by FirstGroup
plc to the ESOP in respect of the year ended 31 March 2000.  The ESOP has
acquired a total of 2,189,783 shares.
 
Under the ESOP, unappropriated FirstGroup shares are held in trust for the
executive directors and/or employees of FirstGroup or its subsidiaries.
Consequently, the executive directors of FirstGroup plc are regarded as
having a potential interest in these unappropriated shares held by the ESOP.
 
The unappropriated shares held by the Trustees of the ESOP will be
appropriated to participating employees on an equal basis in the near future.
With the exception of the employee non-executive director, George Law, all
other eligible directors have declined to participate in the forthcoming
appropriation.