Transfer of shares held in treasury

18 May 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 18 May 2009 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 45,333 ordinary shares at a
price of 325 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 160,857 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,906,313.