Disposal

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
10 June 2003


                               JD WETHERSPOON PLC
                                 PRESS RELEASE

JD Wetherspoon announces it has exchanged contracts for the Sale of seventeen
pubs to The Laurel Pub Company for a cash consideration of £10million.

Sixteen of the seventeen pubs were formerly part of brewery estates and the
average size is just over half the level of those pubs currently being
developed. The pubs have a net asset value of approximately £12.5million.
Accordingly, the results for the year ending 31 July 2003 will include an
exceptional loss of approximately £2.5million.

The disposal will not have a material affect on earnings.


Enquiries:

Tim Martin                       Chairman                        01923 477777
John Hutson                      Managing Director               01923 477777
Jim Clarke                       Finance Director                01923 477777

Eddie Gershon                    Company Spokesman               0208 352 5012/
                                                                 07956 392234

Visit our web site at www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk

9 June 2003


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