Stagecoach Group plc (the "Company") has been notified that on 8 January 2010,
Ross Paterson, a person discharging managerial responsibility, exercised an
option under the Stagecoach Group plc Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme
to purchase 52,012 ordinary shares in the Company at an exercise price of
80.75p per share.  All of the 52,012 shares purchased under the option were then
sold at an average price of 177.5p per share. The option was granted in 2003 and
was to have lapsed, if not previously exercised, in 2010.

Following this transaction, Ross Paterson's interests in the securities of the
Company are as follows :

+------------------+------------------+-----------------+----------------------+
|Number of Ordinary|  % of Ordinary   |    Number of    |  Number of Deferred  |
|   Shares held    | Shares in issue  | Ordinary Shares |Ordinary Shares Under |
|                  |                  | Held Under Save |       Executive      |
|                  |                  |   as You Earn   | Participation Plans  |
|                  |                  |     Options     |                      |
+------------------+------------------+-----------------+----------------------+
|           128,266|             0.02%|            3,733|               211,872|
+------------------+------------------+-----------------+----------------------+

In addition, Ross Paterson is a potential beneficiary of the Stagecoach Group
Employee Benefit Trust 2003 and the Stagecoach Group Qualifying Employee Share
Trust, which together hold 3,353,916 shares of 56/57th pence each, representing
0.47% of the total Ordinary Shares in issue.


CONTACTS:Telephone

Mike Vaux, Deputy Company Secretary      01738   442111

Steven Stewart, Director of Corporate Communications      01738    442111



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