Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
16 December 2003

                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 15 December 2003, it
acquired 400,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 263.625p per share.


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