National Trust to restore fire-devastated Clandon Park

The National Trust has announced plans to restore Clandon Park, a Palladian mansion in Surrey, which was devastated by fire on 29 April 2015. It has resisted calls fr om the Onslow family, the original owners of the house, to demolish the shell and use the insurance proceeds for other properties. (Clandon Park was given to the National Trust in 1956.)Helen Ghosh, the director general of the National Trust, says that any insurance money would need to be spent on Clandon and could not be used els