Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
7 March 2002




                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon has today been advised that Morley Fund Management Limited (a
subsidiary of CGNU plc) and CGNU plc no longer hold a notifiable interest in the
issued ordinary share capital of the Company.





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