Announcement re: Rights Issue

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APPLICABLE.

FirstGroup plc

                                                                   11 June 2013

                         Admission of Nil Paid Rights                          

The Company announces that, pursuant to the Rights Issue announced on 22 May
2013, 722,859,586 New Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each will be admitted to
listing on the premium listing segment of the Official List of the UKLA and
will be admitted, nil paid, to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main
market for listed securities at 8.00 a.m. today.

Capitalised terms defined in the Prospectus published on 22 May 2013 shall have
the same meaning when used in this announcement.

CONTACTS

FirstGroup plc

Tim O'Toole, Chief Executive [phone]

Chris Surch, Group Finance Director

Rachael Borthwick, Group Corporate Communications Director

Goldman Sachs International

Joint Sponsor, Joint Global Coordinator, Joint Bookrunner, Joint Corporate
Broker

Anthony Gutman [phone]

Phil Raper

Eduard van Wyk

J.P. Morgan Cazenove

Joint Sponsor, Joint Global Coordinator, Joint Bookrunner, Joint Corporate
Broker

Malcolm Moir [phone]

Jonathan Wilcox

Guy Marks

BofA Merrill Lynch

Joint Bookrunner

Rupert Hume-Kendall [phone]

Oliver Holbourn

Daniel Burton-Morgan

END

This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States
or any other jurisdiction. The securities of the Company have not been, and
will not be, registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 or under the
applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United
States. No securities of the Company will be offered or sold in the United
States absent registration or an exemption from registration and in compliance
with state securities laws. No public offer of securities of the Company is
being made in the United States.