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21st May 1993: It's the end of an era as Alf Roberts sells the Corner Shop to Reg Holdsworth for £68,000. Alf has run the shop since the death of his second wife Renee in 1980, and the sale is a long time coming for his current wife Audrey who has long hated the shop. The last few weeks have been a time of change for Reg as he has taken redundancy from supermarket Bettabuys and got engaged to Maureen Naylor. The couple celebrate their engagement and new investment at a party in the Rovers Return Inn, which even Maureen's cranky mother Maud Grimes - who isn't exactly Reg's biggest fan - attends, having at first refused.