Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
22 July 2004




                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 21 July 2004, it acquired
2,000,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 260p per share.




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