Transfer of shares held in treasury

5 October 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 5 October 2009 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 27,250 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 1,207,859 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 480,859,311.