Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
27 October 2003


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 24 October 2003, it
acquired 700,000 Ordinary shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein for cancellation at a price of 266p per share.



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