Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
22 August 2006


                               JD Wetherspoon plc

                                ('the Company')


    Notification of Interest in Shares Under Section 198  Companies Act 1985


JD Wetherspoon plc was today notified by Hermes Administration Services Ltd.
that, as at 18 August 2006, Hermes Focus Asset Management Limited and Hermes SLP
Limited, on behalf of Hermes UK Focus Fund (FF) no longer hold a notifiable
interest in the ordinary share capital of the company.







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