Replacement: Transaction in Own Shares

The following amendment has been made to the Transaction in own shares announcement released on 5th February 2016 at 7am under RNS No 14770.

Date of purchase: 1st February 2016 has now been amended to 4th February 2016.

All other details remain unchanged.

The full amended text is shown below.

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: 4th February 2016

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 23,000

Highest price paid and the lowest price paid was 680.00 pence per share.

The purchase represented an average price of 680.00 pence per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 118,529,587.