Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
07 July 2005



                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 6th July 2005, it acquired 2,250,000
shares of the company through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for cancellation at
a price of 270.88p per share.




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