Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
24 August 2006


                               JD Wetherspoon plc

                                ('the Company')


    Notification of Interest in Shares Under Section 198  Companies Act 1985


JD Wetherspoon plc was today notified that the Essex County Council Pension
Fund, as a limited partner in the Hermes UK Focus Fund no longer hold a
notifiable interest in the ordinary share capital of the company.







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