Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
03 May 2005


                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')

J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 29th April 2005, it acquired 2,300,000
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at
a price of 249.73p per share.


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