Transfer of shares held in treasury

6 March 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ('the Company') announces that on 6 March 2006 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme, 184,991 ordinary shares at
a price of 192p 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 6,793,341 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 391,957,980.