Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
13 November 2003



                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 12 November 2003, it
acquired 500,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 271.5p per share.


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