Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
13 April 2006


                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')

J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 12 April 2006, it acquired 450,000 shares
of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a
price of 369.961p per share.


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