Dear all Firstly, thank you very much for your continuing support. It is making all the difference, as you can see below. Following the threat to the foreign investors of media exposure if no substantial response received by 14th November, there has been a new development and more discovery from the other side. We aren't unfortunately able to share anything with you at this point, as the other side have requested confidentiality. We have agreed this, for the present. We will say that because of your support, and with your help, we believe the odds of campaign success have further moved in our favour. You may be interested in the forensic work we carry out to uncover these invisible investors. Firstly, they and their intermedaries don't answer enquiries as standard. They hide behind a short list of tax havens, in particular Jersey, British Virgin Islands, Panama, and Luxembourg, countries who sell their financial services on 'assured secrecy and discretion'. The investors use a layered holding companies within holding companies approach to make searches expensive and unfulfilling; it is called the 'MEGO' or My Eyes Glaze Over strategy. So we look for backdoor records, court and regulator announcements and business databases, old news reports, LinkedIN etc, and connect the dots. Sometimes a vital connection appears, as it did on Friday in the form of a letter delivered to us by a Magic Circle law firm motorcycle courier representing one of the secret investors. Just under 1,200 screenshots of evidence have been considered and filed to date, and over one hundred specific pieces of evidence have been recorded and datestamped as relevant. We use very careful fact checking to the New York Times IMVAIN publishing standard, because if we get something wrong and make a public statement based on it, there is no doubt at all we'll be hit with libel action. And finally one of the best bits. We have no legal powers at all, but we have over 11,000 supporters willing to write to Press and MPs, and heaps of newspaper coverage. We are finding this is nearly as good as a warrant! Where we were sure of our facts, and approached the above not-mentioned secretive investing group with a 'tell us why you invested to close down this LGBT+ icon, and why you won't re-open it. If you don't respond, our campaigners will write to parliament' proposition. It was this that compelled the above-mentioned to confirm their prior involvement and make a crucial admission on Friday. Whilst we appreciate this update may seem to be frustratingly short on fact, I would like to say The Black Cap Foundation is feeling more confident today than at any time in the last 18 months. And as you know we have always been confident about winning a positive outcome. Indeed, we have convincingly won all of the last 5 interventions aimed at converting The Black Cap into unaffordable flats and restaurants or anything else. And prior to us other Black Cap supporters scored their own victories against redevelopment, and we acknowledge their prior contribution. However, unlike the US Elections we won't be taking anything for granted. We know Campaigners are all in a strong position. This fight is ours to lose, and that is simply not going to happen. We hope to provide a more substantial update over the next 4 - 6 weeks. Anyway, next, the BBC's just been in touch again with a progress report on their forthcoming documentary about the 50 year anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. Progress is being made there too, and clearly The Black Cap will feature large in the programme. So we'll send out their request to you on Wednesday. Keep on fighting! Chris Clark Programme Director Black Cap Foundation (Photo courtesy of Morning Advertiser)