Transfer of shares held in treasury

28 July 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 28 July 2008 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 2,693 ordinary shares for
the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme 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 294,133 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,773,037.