Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
04 October 2006



                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 3 October 2006, it acquired 460,000 shares
of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
505.245p per share.





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