Treasury Shares and Director/PDMR Shareholding

13 December 2007

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

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

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 13 December 2007 it
transferred to the Trustees of the FirstGroup Employee Benefit Trust (the
"EBT") 800,000 ordinary shares. The shares were all formerly held as treasury
shares. The highest price paid was 406.9942 pence per share and the lowest
price paid was 406.6677 pence per share, the price reflecting the original
price paid for the shares when they were formerly purchased by the Company and
transferred into treasury.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 2,457,444 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 435,821,354.

The Company has also received notice that today the EBT acquired 58,117
ordinary shares of 5 pence in the Company at an average price of 738.1397 pence
per share.

The EBT now holds 1,507,223 unallocated FirstGroup plc shares.

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

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 the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.2.

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