Transaction in Own Shares

24 January 2011

JD Wetherspoon plc ("the Company")

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC

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: 21 January 2011

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 100,000

Highest price paid: 450.0p

Lowest price paid: 446.0p

The purchase represented an average price of 448.0p per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 138,857,830.

Enquiries:

Sally Kenward, Tel.: 01923 477764

Asst. Company Secretary

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