Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
24 July 2003


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchase

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 23 July 2003, it acquired
975,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at an average price of 2.3379p per share.


                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange