Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
11 December 2003





                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases



JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 10 December 2003, it
acquired 400,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 264.8125p per share.






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