Paul McCartney has agreed to demolish a wooden lodge built without planning permission on his country estate by the end of June next year, his local authority said today.

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.

Paul McCartney has been told he must tear down the house where his estranged wife Heather Mills is living.