McCartney fails to win over council planners

Paul McCartney failed to resolve his differences with his local council today, despite offering to demolish one of his houses on his sprawling country estate to save a log cabin built without planning permission.

The rock legend has been locked in a dispute with planning officers over the secluded timber lodge and gym built in the grounds of Woodlands Farm in Brede Lane, Peasmarsh, near Rye, East Sussex.