Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
11 May 2005


                               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 9 May 2005, The Trustees of BT Pension Scheme / BriTel Fund Trustees
Limited hold a material interest in the following ordinary shares of the
Company:

BriTel Fund Nominees Ltd.               394,411 shares                   0.216%
Chase Nominees Ltd.                     10,963,833 shares                6.010%

Total Shares                            11,358,244 shares                6.226%

Less Amount of Shares on Loan           400,797 shares                   0.220%

Total Holding                           10,957,447 shares                6.006%


JD Wetherspoon plc was further notified that Hermes Focus Asset Management, as
general partners of various partnerships controls the following:

Chase Nominees Ltd.              9,249,335 shares                        5.153%



Hermes Focus Asset Management and Hermes SLP Limited are both subsidiaries of
Hermes Pensions Management Limited which is ultimately owned by Britel Fund
Trustees Limited, a company controlled by the trustees of the BT Pension Scheme.








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