Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
21 July 2004





                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 20 July 2004, it acquired
500,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 261p per share.








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