Transfer of shares held in treasury

3 March 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 3 March 2008 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 26,652 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 567,734 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 437,711,064.