Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
28 July 2003


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchase


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 25 July 2003, it acquired
170,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 232p per share.


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