EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Jennifer Saunders and Adrian Edmondson are locked in a planning row over plans for dream home on Dartmoor

She and her husband could lay claim to being Britain's funniest couple, but Jennifer Saunders and Adrian Edmondson have failed to amuse conservationists with their plans for a Grand Designs-style makeover of their historic Devon farmhouse. Absolutely Fabulous star Saunders and Edmondson, who's best known as violent punk Vyvyan in 1980s cult sitcom The Young Ones, want to build a new entrance, car port and turning area at their £2million, 16th Century manor house as well as a pottery and music studio. Absolutely Fabulous star Saunders and Edmondson want to build a new entrance, car port and turning area at their £2million, 16th Century manor house The comedians say it will take cars away from the Grade II listed house and 'reinforce its significance and enhance its setting' within the Dartmoor National Par French and Saunders star Jennifer, 66, and Edmondson, 67, originally bought the five-acre estate as a holiday retreat for daughters Ella, Beattie and Freya, with a separate two-bedroom cottage, workshops, marquee lawn and walled garden. The Brazilian television host has a son, Lucas, 25, with the Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick Jagger's former inamorata, Luciana Gimenez, has come up with an ingenious way to defy ageing She marked her 55th birthday with a party featuring balloons and candles, inset, emblazoned with the number 30 Sir Mick Jagger's former inamorata, Luciana Gimenez, has come up with an ingenious way to defy ageing – pretend you're much younger. Campbell fails to woo former National Theatre director Former spin doctor Alastair Campbell was accused of causing irreparable damage to the national mood Alastair Campbell has failed to win over Sir Richard Eyre, former director of the National Theatre.