Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
29 September 2006







                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 28 September 2006, it acquired 800,000
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
509p per share.





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