It is perhaps unfortunate that most PLC's are run for the benefit of the major shareholders, and their investment advisors. The small private shareholder is always the last to know. That's why most private investors don't make great investment decisions. (Perhaps because they are too short term)
Warren Buffet invests his money (and that of Berkshire Hathaway) as though he was buying the whole company. Inother words he checks out every detail, and if the price is right (i.e. undervalued) he purchases.
Most private investors rely on the so-called good-judgement of others.
But You're right as a private investor myself, I am as frustrated as anyone with the lack of News. We should perhaps give John Teeling his due, at least when he was trying to raise capital, information was thick and fast.
W.