The total number of shares held by current directors is 16,118,989.
This equates to about 12.54%. A sizeable chunk of the shares is held by PI (usually registered under norminee accounts Chase Norminee 9.39% etc).
I never found it difficult buying the shares.I think that at the moment this share has not come under the gaze of the investment trusts... It is still too risky. The share price is languishing where it is because it seems like only PI has an interest in the shares currently .... and most of us are already fully loaded.
After the next set of results .. if improvements continues apace then it may be a different story. There are shares available to buy at higher volumes, though they may have to pay a premuim to the current price ... which will of course move the price up.