Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
12 March 2004

                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 11 March 2004, it acquired
400,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 286p per share.

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