Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
12 December 2005







                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 9 December 2005, it acquired 2,350,000
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at
a price of 320p per share.














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