Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
26 October 2004







                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon has today been advised that as at 25th October 2004 The Goldman
Sachs Group, Inc. no longer has a disclosable interest in the Ordinary shares of
the Company.












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