Treasury Shares and Director/PDMR Shareholding

18 May 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

    Transfer of shares held in treasury and Directors'/PDMRs' Shareholding     

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 18 May 2006 it transferred to
the Trustees of the FirstGroup Employee Benefit Trust (the "EBT") 875,000
ordinary shares. The highest price paid was 406.8991 pence per share and the
lowest price paid was 395.9891 pence per share. The shares were all formerly
held as treasury shares.

FirstGroup plc shares held by the EBT are used to satisfy awards made to
participants in the Company's Performance Share Plan, Executive Share Option
Scheme and Executive Annual Bonus Plan.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 5,650,263 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 393,101,058.

The transaction took place at 395 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5RP.

The following executive directors and PDMRs of the Company are potential
beneficiaries of the EBT and are deemed to be interested in those shares for
the purposes of section 324 of the Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule
3.1.2.

Executive Directors                    PDMRs                                   
                                                                               
Sidney Barrie                          Everton Bryan                           
                                                                               
Dean Finch                             Nicholas Chevis                         
                                                                               
David Leeder                           Andrew Haines                           
                                                                               
Moir Lockhead                          Eileen Malcolmson                       
                                                                               
                                       Stephen McPhail                         
                                                                               
                                       Michael Murray                          
                                                                               
                                       Carey Paster                            
                                                                               
                                       Louise Ruppel                           
                                                                               
                                       Nicola Shaw