Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
14 May 2004


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 13 May 2004, it acquired
315,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 285.5p per share.


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