Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
07 July 2003



                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchase


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 4 July 2003, it acquired
600,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 233p per share.

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