TartinTom,
I like such TV series as Dragons' Den and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and it is fact that by the time businesses and/or business people find their way on to such programmes asking for financial investment and/or help it is regularly a last gasp hope before they are forced to close the doors, in light of events of today this is neither the time nor place to say "I told you so" or similar, it is not what affllicted employees want to hear or read, but I doubt that Ettyl made any, quote, "promise" and whilst it would appear they had stumbled at the first hurdle do people here know with any certainty that they had thrown the towel in regarding buying Stobart or if indeed they just needed more time, more time that Stobart couldn't afford?
And the knives have been out on this thread for Ettyl since last year, not since last week or the week before but since last year, it can't have anything to do with Stobart.