Purchase of Own Securities

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
08 October 2003

                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 7 October 2003, it acquired
500,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 244p per share.


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