Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
10 September 2003





                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 9 September 2003, it
acquired 250,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 241p per share.




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