Transfer of shares held in treasury

1 September 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 1 September 2009 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 14,868
ordinary shares 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 89,884 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,977,286.