The single window has a view over a car park and wasteland near a busy roundabout. "It's a massive sadness in my life." The extensive renovations of the mansion include a volcano wall, a swimming pool and staircases of solid white marble that connect to each of the eight floors. He sold around 15 cars a week. On the third floor, a former conservatory is a Thai-style dining room with a 15-foot preserved cherry tree and silk pink blossom hanging over the table. He sold all Caudwell Group BMW company cars and urged other businesses to do the same. Who else has a room like this? John Caudwell, the founder of Phones4U, is the latest billionaire to tell us that money hasn't made him happy. On installation, the builders reveal the steel frame alone cost 500,000 and the room for error is just 10 millimetres on either side, meaning if it doesn't fit it would have to be returned to the manufacturers in Turkey. the UK's most expensive home Broughton Hall, Staffordshire Sign up to our newsletter. 12 The sprawling 250million mansion is owned by Phones 4 U founder John Caudwell Credit: CHANNEL 4 PICTURE PUBLIC 12 In a few years this would grow into MPRC, the UK's biggest such enterprise. "The suppliers really screwed my business. But Fatal Attraction didn't need a remake, FA launches probe into Jurgen Klopp's altercation with referee Paul Tierney, Billions spent on unproven carbon capture could instead save households 9,000 each, Do not sell or share my personal information. WebBroughton Hall near Eccleshall, Staffordshire, is a privately owned 16th-century Elizabethan-style manor house. That way, he says: "I'd find out which was the best way to end up making money. WebIt is 6am, and John Caudwell is on his racing bicycle, speeding along the Staffordshire byways. A gilded parlor with soaring ceilings. Man, 20, in critical condition after assault in Beckenham, UK running extra evacuation flight to rescue Britons from Sudan, Islamic State leader killed in Syria, says Turkey, The Kings Coronation Concert to feature a Union Flag-shaped stage, Warning of exceptionally low staffing levels as nurses strike, MasterChef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo dies aged 46, a secluded Hollywood-style mansion near Hampstead Heath, County lines mum ran selfish sons drugs ring while he was in jail, Coronation allegiance oath in support of King tone deaf, Couple ordered to tear down 80,000 extension in fight with neighbours, Mum says son was too embarrassed to leave killer girlfriend. In 1980 he quit his Michelin job, sold the motorcycle and grocery businesses, paid off their debts and went full-time into car trading. Every morning, he clocks up 40 miles, returns to his rural manor house, then drives to his office in Stoke-on-Trent. Around the room, shots from iconic films have been superimposed with the faces of John and his family. "I would knock on those doors until I'd been to every door in the neighbourhood. The bed in the master suite is an "emperor-size bed" measuring two metres by two metres, which means you can "starfish and you don't touch the person next to you," she says. Rufus, a 20-year-old musician the youngest of his three children with his first wife was finally, after years of problems, diagnosed with Lyme disease in February. Caudwell has good reason to feel this way. "When he was ten, [he] started developing what appeared to be mental problems panic attacks, serious agoraphobia and a terror of sickness," says his father. He pointed at them and said: What are these?' I believe in sink or swim, and if one of my companies can't survive on its own, then another company shouldn't prop it up, especially at the expense of my own customers.".
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