Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
18 November 2003





                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 17 November 2003, it
acquired 250,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 271p per share.





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