Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
17 March 2008



                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 14 March 2008, it acquired 250,000 shares
of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of
259.408p per share.




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