Transaction in Own Shares

22 July 2004

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 100,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 22 July 2004 it purchased for cancellation
100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 273.7841p per share.

There are now 400,151,321 ordinary shares in issue.