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Tried to top up today and for one reason or another I was offered no price through my broker. Makes me think supply in some places is limited. Or they simply don't hold the stock. It could be a deal is imminent on the refinancing and the directors have taken a lot of the stock available?? Could just be nothing. Only trade today was on ISDX for a 5000 share buy. It's all far too quiet. Good to see you still about Adastra. I do like reading your posts.

Really doubt that is the case. There was no mention at AGM about banks not lending them money. They may well go to other investors in the back ground for new loans? Why a bank? The business including the loan cost is very close to making a profit here. These D and A costs in my opinion will go away after the closed business costs have been removed. Further cost savings still to follow in 2016 too as DW stated at AGM (part of the 1M savings announced last year). Plus benefit from falling pound on Asian businesses. I also expect the business as it is is worth a lot more than 4p. My view is in next 12-18m Porta will be looking to show a profit and use the refinance to propel this forward. 2016 will likely be a loss due to D and A and the 300-400 cost related to closing businesses. Hopefully H2 will be closer to break even. We know they are not working on new purchases (Mentioned in the results.) and the only logical reason directors are not buying is due to a refinance deal. They said they were looking into this at AGM long term. If the business was going nowhere why would Gary Wyatt and other investors be mopping up 24-30m Porta shares this year? These investors don't throw money away for the sake of it. Someone is buying out another stakeholders stock here. 300-400k of stock being traded weekly here between the 2 parties. Over 1.5m shares bought so far since 13th October. There was also 2.4M stock bought after GW TR1 notification. There has consistantly been no shortage of buyers to mop up the stock lately. I still expect more RNS news on this in due course. This could be an investor selling with stable market conditions in terms of shares issued? Otherwise this process would of been much quicker in my opinion. Oh note also that Newgate are currently advertising 2 more roles and Publicasity is hiring too. Some of these relate to Public affairs others to additional work Publicasity is taking on. Publicasity have a lot of high profile brands on their books now and we know that they have cross sold 90% of these clients to other areas in Porta. In terms of news there is not much more they can really put in a RNS. They have pretty much changed most of their advisors and done share plans already. That and made senior management changes this year. Next likely news will be refinance or a holding notification in my opinion. Plus maybe news on share issues for Austrlain business to buy 6%. Timing wise I would expect the RNS on refinance before 2017. Makes sense accounting wise. You want a clean set of results for 2017. We seem to have a slight overhang here still as after the 380k of buys share price is drifting for little reason. I wonder if this means the seller is almost clear and has put a final sell order in? Note the 2000k buy on Friday. Usual indicator the buyer is making more purchases the next trading day. I expect another 250k+ buy to follow. Does the lower figure of 2000k mean a smaller buy? Wait and see.

The political system is what it is. People complain the Tories won with only 33% of vote. Yet same would of been true if Labour had sneaked in and formed a coalition with 30% or less votes. End of day Labour needed to convince the voters that it was the right party to lead Britain. Gordon Brown and Ed Milliband failed to do this. Labour is currently 9-13% behind in latest polls. Not great!! To complain about schools and other services struggling is hardly comparable given the growing public debt. You can't continually funnel more money into a system and keep borrowing more. Something has to give. Is there a political will for either party to find a solution to reduce debt and encourgae more money for key services?? Seems unlikely given public unrest about any cuts. CNKS looks set to remain around 74-79p for now. Each time share tries to push up someone keeps selling more stock. I still don't think this is the low price funds will exchange millions of shares. If a fund decides to dump it's stock then the price will fall much harder. Still unclear what a fair price for CNKS is here.

Hargreaves Hale Aim 2 fund has announced its half year results from Aug 31st 2016. Seems they still hold all Porta stock. Porta is not really mentioned in this report. Apart to confirm stocks held. My guess is HH has held tits Portfolio mostly to see the impact of Brexit. Hopefully they will take the management changes at Porta as a positive. Still waiting on refinance news. Let's hope for some news in next few weeks. If I was going to time this I would get it in before the end of the 2016 results. Then you get the big boost in 2017.

See hire below. Unclear if this is to replace someone who left or a new position. https://capitalaccessgroup.co.uk/news/press-releases/scott-fulton-joins-capital-access-group Scott Fulton Joins Capital Access Group Capital Access Group has recruited Scott Fulton as head of its Financial PR operations. Scott has a wide range of experience spanning almost 30 years in the City of London as an equity analyst in the building and construction sectors and as a financial PR specialist for a wide range of companies. Kevin Lapwood, Deputy CEO of Capital Access Group, said: “We are delighted to welcome Scott to the team to strengthen both our financial communications capabilities and our coverage of the house building, construction and property sectors.”

Just found this on Gorkana. Don't think it had any influence on todays share trades. http://www.gorkana.com/2016/11/hudson-sandler-becomes-independent-partnership/

Just found this on their bi monthly news letter. Not sure if this is the retail project mentioned in September's results. Either way it's new business and a further sign that Publicasity seem to be doing really well. 'We are delighted to announce we are now working with specialist French patisserie and chocolatier Pierre Hermé Paris, famous for its perfectly crafted macarons. Master pâtissier Pierre Hermé has been deemed the ‘Picasso of Pastry’ by Jeffrey Steingarten in Vogue and awarded the title of 'World’s Best Pastry Chef' in June this year. His empire of pastry boutiques now spans the globe: from France and the UK to Japan, Hong Kong and to South Korea. We are raising awareness of the brand, the London boutiques and concession within Selfridges, as well as the website, with a full media relations campaign.' http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=401372289f7e97207009127fb&id=1ac0aa5290&e=014f6b72ae

http://www.medianet.com.au/releases/116652/ For now it seems Newgate are still a Dreamworld client. Further reading suggests they have delayed announcing when site will reopen till the funerals and left it up to the staff as to when they want to return to work. Seems quite sensible really.

MOSCOW—Grayling is partnering with the Swiss Business Hub Russia, an official entity of the Swiss Embassy in Russia and representative of Switzerland Global Enterprise, the international trade and investment promotion organisation of the Swiss federal government. Grayling will support the Swiss Business Hub Russia with integrated communications strategy development, media relations, and digital engagement. Not sure if this is old or new news. http://www.holmesreport.com/latest/article/emea-news-in-brief-(october-31-2016)

Looks like Dreamworld (Theme park in Australia) are a Newgate client. Albeit it seems Dreamworld have not taken on much of Newgate's crisis management advice. Now Newgate are threatening to dump Dreamworld to protect their reputation. Dreamworld wanted to reopen the site 1-2 days after the incident where 4 people died due to a collision on one of their rides. Newgate wanted to wait 2-3 weeks. Newgate also suggested the AGM where the CEO voted herself in a huge bonus should be delayed out of respect of the families. Albeit now a cash donation has been made to the Red Cross by the CEO. Hugely difficult situation for Newgate and Dreamworld. Looks like for now the site is closed for a police investigation. Our thoughts go out to the families that have lost loved ones here. They must be devastated. Let's hope Dreamworld start doing the right thing and make more effort to reassure the public something like this won't happen again. It was not that long ago Alton Towers Smiler ride was subject to a horrifying collision that caused serious injury. As an industry there is much work to be done here to ensure safety of all that go to these theme parks.

Another 250k trade has popped up and again it appears as a sell when it is clearly a buy. No idea about the 25k trade. Similar pattern to start of this week. Suprising the share is not up more really given the buys compared to the sells this week. 4p at present seems to be the SP floor. Happy to start from that kind of base. Someone is still building up stock here. I think the seller won't go below 4p. In effect the buyer is having to go first now to allow the seller to clear stock. Don't think it is GW has he likes keeping to larger numbers on the buys.

Seems to me the price is dropping so sell orders can be filled here. If Hargreaves Hale is clearing stock buyers will need to be found for this stock. Question is what is currently a fair price for Cenkos? What is the price that funds will bite and buy in here?? A lot of buys coming in at 76p now. 50k of buys is only a fraction of HH 7.9m shares. My guess is they will drip feed daily to reduce their stake. That or offer management a chance to buy up some of it in a chunk. Of course I may be wrong and HH were only adjusting their stock level. The continual fall in the SP makes me doubt this!

What is with these constant 900-2000 sized sell trades?? Almost like someone is drip selling all their stock to get an average price. This has been going on for weeks now.

The buyer and seller are now using ISDX and LSE for trades. The small indicator trades now go on ISDX. 2409 share buy and now a sell of 1950 shares around 12.59. Covering their paths better?? Does this mean we can expect more sells tomorrow? Hmmm.

Looks like Hargreaves Hale are reducing down here. Their holding has fallen by over 2%. I wonder if they intend to sell their entire stake or just reduce it?? Or perhaps just selling stock back to management? Either way short term this will have an impact here. The stock management is now buying back is becoming worth less and less at current prices?? Good money after bad? Hmmm.

250k trade for 4.2p has just shown up for 8.14am. Delayed trade. That is why the share has spiked today. Someone still filling their boots.

Not read the article Baron but I did find it last week. (Didn't sign up). The Redleaf deal does seem to be getting rather costly. Redleaf seem to have the power when to call the shots. On flip side 75k of trades had a big impact on SP today. Bizarre given last few days of trades. Late trade or have the buyers soaked up a lot of the floating stock?? I wonder if the refinance could pop up tomorrow? Thursday is a good day for news. Might explain spike today? I do think they are working on something. Why would directors not buy at 3p?

Not really a suprise. I was amazed the bondholders even considered giving the shareholders 1.5%. Why let the shareholders have anything?? End of the day they control the bond and Xcite had no money left in the pot. They will likely sell off the parts to recoup what they can. I can't see them trusting this BOD to take this project forward. Shareholders could fight this but reality is it's a losing hand due to debt and lack of money. Such a shame for the average shareholder as many have lost a lot of money here.

Lots of twitter feed news on Newgate yesterday. Glenclore selling an asset for $1.14 Aus dollars. Hopefully Newgate will be advising on this. Newgate still hiring for Public Affair jobs. They state on Twitter were growing and hiring people. (Plural!!) The Public hire announcement on 22/09/2016 stated 'Further high profile hires will be announced as Newgate expands to meet growing client demand.' (As in more than 1.) I think further hires are still to come here. I don't consider the advertised account excutive as one of those. Perhaps more big names snatched from rival firms? Also consider what cross selling of products they can do on the Public Affairs side. They have hundreds of clients and they are clearly filling a Niche here for their clients. Lots to be positive about here. We also know how great Publicasity are at cross selling products too. Why not other parts of the business too? Publicasity is working for a lot of big names right now. Also consider timing of RNS news. Most RNS last year were about director buys. We are now getting more RNS relating to the business side. We seem to be getting 2-4 RNS a month at present. On this basis I expect further RNS news this month. We also got our first RNS from Gary Wyatt confirming they are increasing their stake in Porta. The buyers are gradually winning this battle. Once directors can buy that battle will launch Porta's share price considerably. End of month is perfect timing for RNS news. Any debt announcment will have director buys attached to it for sure. The way they said 2016 was a year of consolidation seems to be playing out. Mix of cross selling products, ensuring all parts of Porta have the best talent, using this talent to bring in big names and I suspect sorting out Porta's debt issues. Another good thing about DW move to Exec Chairman is he can not get on with Exec Chairman role whike CEO Steffan takes limelight. I suspect all the feed on forums about him was slowing progress and making some investors nervous. Also the chat about Bob. 2 problems solved in one move. These old hands know exactly what they are doing. At 4.25p this share seems a steal. There is no way they would make all these hires unless something was going right. I don't believe all these hires are replacing staff that have left. Gentry and the other maybe but others on top certainly not.

http://www.gorkana.com/2016/10/grayling-wins-virgin-trains-public-affairs-brief/ 'The brief covers public affairs services, including stakeholder engagement support, political intelligence and strategic advice to the operator of the East Coast and West Coast franchises. Jonathan Curtis, Grayling’s head of public affairs, said: “We were thrilled to be appointed by Virgin Trains after a very competitive pitch process. This is another great win for Grayling and adds to our hugely exciting roster of premium brands. Our transport offer is second to none and successes like this continue to confirm that.” The new brief adds to a string of high profile wins for Grayling’s public affairs team in recent months, including Lloyds Banking Group.'