Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
01 June 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 14,003,198 Ordinary shares in the Company, which
represents 7.25% of the issued ordinary share capital.


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