Transaction in Own Shares

14 September 2004

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

              Buyback of 100,000 ordinary shares for cancellation              

FirstGroup plc announces that on 14 September 2004 it purchased for
cancellation 100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of
291.5399 per share.

There are now 398,751,321 ordinary shares in issue.