Transaction in Own Shares

21 July 2004

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 100,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 21 July 2004 it purchased for cancellation
100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 275.01220p per share.

There are now 400,251,321 ordinary shares in issue.