Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
23 April 2007







                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 20 April 2007, it acquired 250,000 shares
of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of 720p
per share.














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