Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
06 December 2004


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases

JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 3 December 2004, it
acquired 250,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 235p per share.



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