LANCASHIRE County Council has made little progress on its pledge to work towards Fairtrade status, bosses admitted.

Six years ago county leader signed a pledge to support Fairtrade products and aim to become the first county to achieve Fairtrade status.

This requires Fairtrade products, which are sourced to ensure third-world producers can make a living, to be on sale and the council to make an effort to promote the Fairtrade movement.

But Tory County Council leader Geoff Driver, who took over in 2009, admitted he had not even heard of the pledge, signed by the previous administration in 2004.

He said: “Not much progress has been made. When the decision was taken, I was not even a county councillor let alone the leader.”