Bankruptcy – ShepwayVox Dissent is not a Crime

Is this the end game for Sunningdale House who want to buy Princes Parade?

April 27, 2023 // 3 Comments

David Richard Pownceby (pictured), the owner of Sunningdale House Developments Limited, the company who has offered Folkestone & Hythe District Council, somewhere in the [...]

Stainer Goes Bust and his Staff Turn on Him

March 10, 2021 // 5 Comments

“When it gets bad, it gets really bad.” That might sum up Michael Stainer today as he stares into his reality mirror. He might not do this very often, but in the last few [...]

The Fall of the Stainer Empire: Part 1

December 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

On October 13th, the two flagship suites at the heart of the Stainer holiday-let business went under the hammer at London auctioneers Barnard Marcus. The sale should have [...]

Stainer’s Surrender?

September 6, 2020 // 2 Comments

Has Michael Stainer given up the ghost? Have those tired old fingertips clinging to the wreckage of the Grand finally lost their grip? Friday’s brief hearing before [...]

A Gaping Gap at the Grand

July 17, 2020 // 4 Comments

Almost five year after the infamous dawn raid that saw Michael and Doris Stainer and their general manager arrested, Robert Richardson has finally abandoned the beleaguered [...]

The Dog (HMRC) Ate My Homework

June 28, 2020 // 2 Comments

How many times when a schoolboy at Bedford School did Michael Stainer use the excuse “the dog ate my homework”? We will never know, but we do know that he has been using [...]

Revealed: Michael Stainer Owes The Taxman £1.1 million

June 23, 2020 // 7 Comments

When Michael Stainer, Doris Stainer and Robert Richardson were arrested in July 2015, they were held in custody for approximately nine hours. Stainer described the dawn raid [...]

The Great Escape: the Remake

May 14, 2020 // 3 Comments

As Michael Stainer (again) and Hallam Estates, the company he set up in 1995 to keep control of the Grand, both slide towards insolvency under the burden of £500,000 of [...]

The Long Read: Vigilantes or Crime Stoppers? The Two Faces of FAPAC. (Part 1 & 2)

July 6, 2019 // 7 Comments

Fair Play and FAPAC: Crime Prevention or Vigilantism? Lucky Dover residents now enjoy the protection of one of the first Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRP) in the [...]

The Grand: “The Merry Go round stops”

January 10, 2019 // 8 Comments

With those words, Michael Stainer knew that his final appeal against personal bankruptcy was doomed. Appearing before Chief Bankruptcy Registrar Briggs in the High Court on [...]

The Grand Farewell: High Court Bankrupts the Stainers

November 11, 2018 // 11 Comments

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 [...]

The Stainers’ Last Stand?

July 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

Has the music finally come to an end for the Stainers (pictured)? Has the 33 years of incessant battling through numerous court cases, insolvency proceedings, an individual [...]

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