Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
25 October 2006




                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 24 October 2006, it acquired 127,000
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
558p per share.







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