Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
18 June 2003


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 17 June 2003, it acquired
350,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 256p per share.



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