Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
30 January 2004



                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon has today been advised that The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
currently holds an interest in 8,204,803 Ordinary shares in the Company, which
represents 4.13% of the issued ordinary share capital.





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