Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
12 May 2006


                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')

J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 11 May 2006, it acquired 1,500,000 shares
of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a
price of 400p per share.



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