Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
21 March 2006




                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 20 March 2006, it acquired 275,000 shares
of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a
price of 358p per share.


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