Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
30 November 2004





                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 29 November 2004, it
acquired 1,100,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
for cancellation at a price of 227.982p per share.








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