Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
18 March 2008







                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 17 March 2008, it acquired 500,000 shares
of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
245.993p per share.










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