Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
16 July 2003



                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchase


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 15 July 2003, it acquired
900,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 245p per share.



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