Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
14 June 2006


                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')

J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 13 June 2006, it acquired 500,000 shares
of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a
price of 394.68p per share.




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