Transaction in Own Shares

04 December 2013

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: 03 December 2013

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 47,000

Highest price paid was and 692.34p the lowest price paid was 689.63p

The purchase represented an average price of 691.3519p per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 125,668,739.