Transaction in Own Shares

16 September 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                  FirstGroup plc - Transactions in Own Shares                  

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 16 September 2009 it purchased
from J.P. Morgan Cazenove Limited 130,000 ordinary shares at an average price
of 435.7077 pence per share. The purchased shares will be held as treasury
shares.

The Company intends to hold these shares in treasury to satisfy anticipated
exercises of participants' share options in the Company's Save as You Earn
Scheme.

Following the above purchase, the Company holds 191,450 ordinary shares in
treasury, and has 481,875,720 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury
shares).

Contacts:

Eileen Malcolmson, Legal Adviser and Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Stuart Bugg, Corporate Communications Manager

Tel: [phone]