Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
15 May 2000

                                                         
                               
              JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')
                               
The Company advises that the following Directors'
Shareholdings have increase as shown below as a result of
their acceptance of the Scrip Dividend Alternative payable on
15 May 2000:


                    Record date                        
                     holding at       Scrip            
Name                    31/3/00  Allocation   New Total
----                -----------  ----------   ---------
Mrs Suzanne Baker        30,176          62      30,238
Mr Jim Clarke             7,052          14       7,066
Mr John Hutson          132,422         273     132,695
Mr Brian Roy Jervis      29,612          61      29,673