Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
05 March 2007







                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 2 March 2007, it acquired 825,000 shares
of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
653.7576p per share.






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