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The Grand Folkestone: Residents Report Utility Billing Disputes, High Energy Charges and Unresolved Fire Door and Corridor Lighting Concerns

December 16, 2025 // 1 Comment

Residents at The Grand in Folkestone have contacted us with a new set of concerns about day-to-day management of the building — including what they describe as long-running [...]

Bailiffs Return to The Grand Folkestone: £20,490 Unpaid CCJ Raises Fresh Service Charge Fears for Leaseholders

December 12, 2025 // 1 Comment

Bailiffs were reported at The Grand in Folkestone again on Monday 8 December, in what residents say was another confrontation over unpaid electricity linked to flats — a [...]

Property Sales in Folkestone & Hythe District Violate EPC Regulations.

March 5, 2025 // 2 Comments

Updated: 5 March @ 19:48 In the UK, it is a legal requirement to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) when selling a property, including private sales. The EPC must [...]

Leaseholders say they’re being fleeced by Property Management Company at Shorncliffe Heights

February 5, 2025 // 1 Comment

Leaseholders on the Shorncliffe Heights Development are up in arms about the service charges they are paying. They say they’ve increased considerably and are being [...]

More shenanigans at The Grand

July 23, 2022 // 2 Comments

Two wrongs do make a right so they say. Now Michael Stainer is safely ensconced in one of Her Majesty’s Prison’s, as he was found guilty of two counts of cheating [...]

Michael Stainer sentenced to three years

July 7, 2022 // 9 Comments

Updated 07.07.22 @16:00 Today at Southwark Crown Court, July 7th 2022, sentencing of the disgraced ex-chartered accountant, Michael Stainer (pictured below) has taken place, [...]

Clients & Employees of The Grand owed hundreds of thousands in upaid wages and refunds

June 2, 2022 // 3 Comments

Updated: 04/06/22 @08:39 Prof Victor Klinkinhoffer B.TECH MC (aka) Robert Graham Moss (pictured), and director of five companies, of which four are registered to the address [...]

More court cases for Michael Stainer yet to come.

May 21, 2022 // 7 Comments

July 8th, the day Michael Stainer will be sentenced for cheating the public revenue and fraud by false representation of £473,097, after a two week trial at Southwark Crown [...]

Michael Stainer guilty of ripping off staff and to be sentenced on July 8.

May 20, 2022 // 14 Comments

Michael Stainer [74] who cheated his employees and the taxman out of £473,097.07 while running The Grand is facing jail. Michael Stainer (pictured), 74, trousered the [...]

Stainer Trial – Jury retires after 14 days of evidence

May 17, 2022 // 2 Comments

After 14 days of deliberations in the case of The Queen v Doris & Michael Stainer (pictured below), the jury have retired to consider the evidence. In all seven witnesses [...]

The Grand employees call out Michael Stainer!!

August 25, 2021 // 13 Comments

There are some very angry people who have lost all patience with Michael Stainer (below left), the twice-bankrupt ex-director of the Grand’s owners, and Robert Moss [...]

Who Bought The Grand? – The ‘Mystery Solved

August 14, 2021 // 14 Comments

After weeks of speculation, the ‘mystery’ of who bought the freehold of the Grand has been revealed. It was a company, the Grand (Folkestone) Residents Ltd set up by a [...]

The Grand Stainer Sting

July 5, 2021 // 5 Comments

Mortgage lenders, some of whom are household names, must rue the day they lent money to the Stainers, as they count the losses they are making on the 19 Stainer flats. Now we [...]

Criminal Charges against Michael & Doris Stainer revealed.

June 29, 2021 // 14 Comments

Exclusive We can now reveal the full extent of the criminal charges brought against Michael and Doris Stainer (pictured below) as presented in Westminster Magistrates Court [...]

The End of an Era @ The Grand, Folkestone

June 26, 2021 // 10 Comments

Determined as ever, and undeterred by the refusal of District Judge Luthfur Rahman in Canterbury County Court on June 17th, to halt the June 22nd auction of the Grand itself, [...]

More woes for Michael Stainer

June 19, 2021 // 12 Comments

Thanks to a local Folkestone resident posting on Facebook last Saturday, we learnt that legal action had been taken to prevent people who’d bought stuff at the Grand online [...]

Doris Stainer faces arrest for Crown Court No Show.

May 6, 2021 // 5 Comments

Doris Stainer (pictured), wife of Michael Stainer, is facing arrest after failing to return to the UK from Germany, according to the latest report in Court News UK. Her [...]

Michael & Doris Stainer Charged with Fraud

May 1, 2021 // 5 Comments

Michael and Doris Stainer (pictured below) have been charged with failing to pay income tax and national insurance contributions amounting to over £400,000 under two [...]

Where’s the Money Gone, Mikey?

March 23, 2021 // 4 Comments

Who says we don’t make a difference? Within days of our article “Covid-19 Grant Fraud at the Grand as Council demands its money back” , Folkestone and Hythe Council [...]

A Grand Identity Crisis

March 21, 2021 // 7 Comments

So, who has really been in charge at the Grand since Michael Stainer ‘stepped down’ after his November 2018 bankruptcy? For a brief period, until he was unceremoniously [...]

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 [...]

Buyer Beware!

February 23, 2021 // 8 Comments

Any lingering doubts about the survival of Michel Stainer’s Grand empire disappeared on Saturday afternoon. For two hours, process servers acting for the administrators of [...]

Another Lie by Cllr David Drury Monk?

February 3, 2021 // 12 Comments

Why does Council leader David Monk (pictured) lie to his fellow councillors and the residents of the district either by design or accident? Here’s a very recent example: [...]

Covid-19 Grant Fraud at the Grand as Council demands its money back

January 28, 2021 // 11 Comments

BREAKING NEWS: Following an FOI request first made on May 3rd 2020 and a full eight months late, the Council has conceded that it received applications for COVID-19 grants [...]

The kitchen may be silent but the books are getting cooked

January 1, 2021 // 24 Comments

Updated Jan 21 2021 @ 13.05 For an accounting sleight of hand that elevates end-of-year accounts into a Booker Prize contender for fiction, look no further than those filed [...]

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