Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
13 October 2003


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 10 October 2003, it
acquired 600,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 247p per share.


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