Holding in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
10 January 2001


              JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')
                               
JD Wetherspoon plc has today been advised by M&G Investment
Management Limited that Prudential plc and the Prudential
Assurance Company Limited now hold 10,677,000 ordinary shares
in the Company, which represents 5.07% of its issued ordinary
share capital.