Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
15 June 2006




                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 14 June 2006, it acquired 1,200,000 shares
of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a
price of 394.083333p per share.










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