The five-storey 90, 000sq ft store is the chain's second-biggest in the UK, behind its 225, 000sq ft Knightsbridge flagship.

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Southern Cross has identified 47 care homes that it wants to hand back to the landlords, almost immediately and a further 85 homes that it would wish to pull out of over the coming five years ( see this morning's FT for more on this).

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