Transfer of shares held in treasury

8 January 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 8 January 2008 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme for the early exercise of
options 370 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 2,455,642 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 435,823,156.