Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
31 May 2005



                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 27th May 2005, it acquired 335,000 shares
of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at a
price of 274p per share.




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