Transfer of shares held in treasury

18 February 2008

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 18 February 2008 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 56,654
ordinary shares (56,136 for the maturity of the SAYE 2004 scheme at a price of
267 pence per share and 518 for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2006
scheme at a price of 325 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 624,182 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 437,654,616.