Muttley - there already WAS a public drive to raise the £25million rebuild, which last week was £7million short.

That's what makes my cynical little brain think it was an insurance job/publicity scam. Had it caught fire before the expensive and irriplaceable stuff (like the figurehead) been taken away, THAT would have been a tragedy. What was left was pfobably the stuff that was going to be replaced anyway.

LTS