Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
16 May 2005


                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 13th May 2005, it acquired 250,000 shares
of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a
price of 253p per share.


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