Breaking News: Who is in charge at the Grand?
Following the shock new of the bankruptcies of Michael and Doris Stainer and the liquidation of more of their companies, just who is running the day-to-day activities at the [...]
Betrayed by East Kent Housing
Arthur is 86. He has served in our armed forces and has been betrayed by one of his ward Cllrs, by Cllr Alan Ewart- James Cabinet member for Housing (pictured below left), by [...]
Peter Principle alive & well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust
The Peter principle is alive and well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust. If for one moment one believes that the proposal for a new Hospital at Canterbury, [...]
Kent MP Costs For 2017/18
All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,697,412, for the financial year 2017/18. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.). This is a 3.85% increase [...]
Part 3: One A & E for East Kent?
Below are the average emergency response journey times by postcode, for taking patients to either the A & E at the William Harvey Hospital Ashford and the QEQM Margate in [...]
The Grand Farewell: High Court Bankrupts the Stainers
Thirty two years after residents of the Grand first confronted Michael Stainer in Court, and three and a half years after HMRC arrested Stainer, his wife Doris and Robert [...]
We will remember them
For the Fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £18.9 million for land/property acquisitions
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet meeting on the 14th Nov will recommend to full council that it borrows an additional £10 million (the annual interest cost [...]
Transforming NHS Health Care in East Kent
“It’s about all the hospitals continuing to contribute, and all the hospitals doing something, but not all the hospitals doing everything.” Susan Acott [...]
The Long Read: Marlie Farm Holiday Park
It doesn’t make sense, it just doesn’t make sense.. Marlie Farm Holiday Park (New Romney, Kent) was purchased by Harts Holiday Camps Limited on the 29/03/1990, [...]
Another award for The Grand
It’s not all bad news at the Grand as litigator supreme Michael Stainer walked away with the award for the “Brass Neck Performance” of 2018. For a man who has a neck [...]
A bunch of muppets, dodgy data, & Pensand House & Malborough Court.
One lunch time last week 29th Oct – 2nd Nov, I received an email. I opened it and read it and to my surprise found myself laughing at its contents. The email only [...]
Part 2: One A & E for East Kent?
The cost to build a new hospital at Canterbury would be in the region of £120 million. A hospital of this cost would be able to accommodate between 850 -900 beds, according [...]
A Victory for the Public Interest.
EXCLUSIVE Our public face sent his Environmental Information Request to the Council on the 6th Jan 2017. Yesterday 31st Oct 2018, the First Tier Tribunal (General Regulatory [...]
Oportunitas Ltd – all change
Cllr Claire Jeffrey (pictured below left) will be replaced as the senior director of Oportunitas Limited as of the 31st Oct 2018, according to an announcement by [...]
One A & E for East Kent, but where?
It’s always good to have as many of the facts as possible, to make an informed decision. The possible closures of the A & E’s at the William Harvey Hospital [...]
KCC sell Royal Victoria Hospital and F&HDC purchased Highview for £750,000
According to Savills website, the Royal Victoria Hospital, site has been sold. This has happened in the last few days. No details as of yet have been updated on the Land [...]
Lack of Transparency: Kent District Cllrs Allowances & Expenses now published annually.
All 12 Councils (not including Medway) in Kent, have elected to publish Cllrs allowances and expenses on an annual basis. There has not been a word about this lack of [...]
£4.2 million in property investments by Oportunitas Ltd
Between Nov 2014 and Oct 2018, Oportunitas Limited, a company solely owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) has spent £4,266,592 on acquiring eleven [...]
The Long Read: Tenants & Section 21 Eviction Notices
Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988, also known as “no fault” evictions, have risen to prominence and controversy in recent years as the legal method for landlords [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Archaeology and a conflict of interests.
The outline planning application for Otterpool Park is “very likely” to be put forward in January 2019, according to a senior Council officer. Meanwhile on the [...]
Issues with East Kent Housing’s P & R boiler contract?
P & R’ Installation Co Ltd (P & R) £27 million pound contract managed by East Kent Housing for central heating, emergency 24/7 gas and hot water repair [...]
High Court refuse Michael Stainer right to appeal Income Tax & Paye decision.
In March 2018 Mr Michael Stainer; who lost the ownership of The Grand in 1995, lost his appeal to the Upper Tier Tribunal of the Tax & Chancery Chamber, regarding unpaid [...]
Efficiency savings cost more than half a million.
Savings do not require that efficiencies be recorded net of up-front investment costs i.e. if you spend money to save money, you count the money saved but not the money [...]
Stuck in a moment you can’t get out of Mr. Stainer?
It must be hard being Michael Stainer (pictured below) as the multiple investigations continue into his complex web of companies, and now his personal finances. HMRC, Crown [...]