LANCASHIRE County Council leader Geoff Driver has been bailed again until August 22.

He is one of four men being investigated by police as part of a long-running investigation into the authority’s contracts.

The other three rebailed on Tuesday are former Lancashire County Council chief executives Ged Fitzgerald and Phil Halsall and David McElhinney, chief executive of the now defunct One Connect

The four are on bail on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and witness intimidation.

Mr Fitzgerald resigned earlier this month from his post as chief executive of Liverpool City Council.

He recently failed in a legal effort to to overturn a warrant to arrest him and search his home as part Lancashire police’s ‘Operation Sheridan’.

The High Court judgement on the case said the operation was ‘an underlying investigation into corruption in local government’.

The four men were originally arrested in May last year.

Cllr Driver, who vigorously denies the allegations against him was unavailable for comment yesterday.

The investigation into the county council’s One Connect contract with BT has been running for more than three years and has cost £2million.