Director/PDMR Shareholding

20 March 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                        Directors'/PDMRs' Shareholding                         

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") has received notice that on 19 March 2008 the
Trustees of the FirstGroup Employee Benefit Trust (the "EBT") acquired 282,435
ordinary shares of 5 pence in the FirstGroup plc at an average price of
519.5214 pence per share. The EBT now holds 1,199,696 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 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 3.1.2R.

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