Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
23 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 Local Government Pensions Institution
that, as at 18 August 2006, Hermes UK Focus Fund (FF) no longer hold a
notifiable interest in the ordinary share capital of the company.



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