UK supermarket firm Wm Morrison has announced the sale by Safeway Stores (Ireland) of its store at Downpatrick, Northern Ireland to private buyers John and Helen Miskelly. 

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The value of the gross assets attributable to the store is £14.7m (US$25.9m), the company said. Completion will take place on 19 November 2005 and until that date the store will continue to trade as usual.


Morrisons sold a further 12 of its former Safeway Northern Ireland stores to rival Asda for around £73.6m in June.

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