Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
23 October 2006


The following replaces the Transaction in Own Shares announcement released today
at 7.00 a.m. under RNS number 8421K.


The number of shares purchased was 175,000 shares and not 1,000,000 shares as
previously stated. All other details remain unchanged. The full amended text
appears below.



                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 20 October 2006, it acquired 175,000
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
548.057p per share.






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