Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
22 September 2006


                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 21 September 2006, it acquired 250,000
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
492p per share.




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