Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
06 October 2005




                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 5 October 2005, it acquired 1,000,000
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at
a price of 289.5p per share.





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