Transfer of shares held in treasury

18 September 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 18 September 2006 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 2,056
ordinary shares at a price of 192p per share. The shares were all formerly held
as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 5,549,269 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 393,202,052.