Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
14 March 2007



                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')



J D Wetherspoon plc announces that on 13 March 2007, it acquired 150,000 shares
of the Company through Dresdner Kleinwort for cancellation at a price of 701p
per share.






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