Holding in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
30 November 2000


              J D Wetherspoon plc (the 'Company')
                               

J D Wetherspoon plc has today been advised that Standard Life
Investments now hold 6,126,160 ordinary shares in J D
Wetherspoon plc which no longer represents a notifiable
interest in the Company's issued ordinary share capital.