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FirstGroup fights off rebellion on pay for executives

Bus and train operator FirstGroup has faced down a shareholder rebellion over executive pay at the company’s annual general meeting in Aberdeen.

The Scottish-based group said 293,100,991 votes favoured the directors’ remuneration report – 96.32% – while only 11,190,18, or 3.68%, were against. More than 3.2 million votes were abstentions.