Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
10 March 2004


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 9 March 2004, it acquired
150,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 284p per share.


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