Purchase of Own Securities

FirstGroup PLC
14 January 2002


14 January 2002

                                FirstGroup plc

             Buyback of 100,000 ordinary shares for cancellation

FirstGroup announces that on 14 January 2002 it purchased for cancellation
100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at a price of 279p per share.

Since FirstGroup started to buyback its ordinary shares on 16 November 2001 it
has repurchased for cancellation a total of 1,300,000 ordinary shares leaving
419,830,947 ordinary shares in issue.