Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
19 May 2004





                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases



JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 18 May 2004, it acquired
4,000,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 285p per share.





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