Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
29 March 2005


                      JD Wetherspoon plc Share Repurchases


JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') announces that on 24 March 2005, it acquired
1,000,000 shares of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for
cancellation at a price of 253.3625p per share.



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