Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
19 June 2006







                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 16 June 2006, it acquired 2,000,000 shares
of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a
price of 410p per share.





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