THIS year s Lancashire County Council election campaign has been strange as the giant authority s biggest political beast takes a back seat. And polling day on May 6 marks the end of an era as Burnley-born and Rossendale-raised Conservative group leader Geoff Driver bows out of the electoral fray. The controversial 76-year-old Turf Moor season ticket holder is standing down to spend time with his two - soon to be three -grandchildren. He has handed over the Tory torch to his deputy Keith Iddon who has carried on his campaign to portray Labour was wastefully poor managers and the Conservatives as a a safe set of financial hands.