Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
19 May 2006




                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 18 May 2006, it acquired 800,000 shares of
the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a price
of 385p per share.





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