Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
16 July 2004

                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 15 July 2004, it acquired
500,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 260p per share.



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