Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
02 October 2003


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 1 October 2003, it acquired
400,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 238.875p per share.


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