Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
30 June 2003


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 27 June 2003, it acquired
250,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 235p per share.


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