Transfer of shares held in treasury

26 November 2007

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 26 November 2007 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme for the early
exercise of options 654 ordinary shares at a price of 267 pence 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 3,261,023 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 435,017,775.