Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
17 June 2003



                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 16 June 2003, it acquired
750,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation, at a price of 255.085p per share.


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