Transfer of shares held in treasury

17 November 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 17 November 2008 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 2,008
ordinary shares (1,127 for the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006 scheme
at a price of 325 pence per share and 881 for the early exercise of options of
the SAYE2006B scheme at a price of 444 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 279,398 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,787,772.