Transfer of shares held in treasury

27 August 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 26 August 2008 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 425 ordinary shares for
the maturity of shares under the SAYE2004 scheme at a price of 267 pence per
share. The shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 286,545 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,780,625.