Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
23 July 2003





                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchase



JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 22 July 2003, it acquired
250,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 238p per share.






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