Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
04 July 2003


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchase


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 3 July 2003, it acquired
350,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 235p per share.


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