Transaction in Own Shares

19 May 2014

JD Wetherspoon plc ("the Company")

Transaction in own shares

Pursuant to the authority given to the Company by shareholders, the Company announces that it has purchased ordinary shares of 2p each as follows:

Date of purchase: 16 May 2014

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 180,000

Highest price paid was 827.022p and the lowest price paid was 805p.

The purchase represented an average price of 815.823p per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 124,252,947.