Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
05 October 2006


                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')

J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 5 October 2006, it acquired 4,482,049
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
514p per share.




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