Transfer of shares held in treasury

7 August 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 7 August 2006 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 21,057 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 5,567,519 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 393,183,802.