Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
04 June 2003

4 June 2003



                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases



JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that it acquired 125,000 shares of
the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation on Tuesday,
3 June, 2003 at a price of 232.0p per share.



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