Transfer of shares held in treasury

11 February 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 11 February 2008 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 84,586
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 680,836 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 437,597,962.