Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
23 October 2003

                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 22 October 2003, it
acquired 1,250,000  ordinary shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein for cancellation at a price of 265.24p per share.

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