Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
18 September 2003

                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 17 September 2003, it
acquired 350,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 247p per share.


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