Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
10 May 2007







                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 9 May 2007, it acquired 1,655,000 shares
of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
680.3423p per share.




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