Fairtrade supporters in Bingley have been celebrating after contributing to a world record breaking line of Fairtrade bunting.
The Fairtrade Foundation hung 2.1 miles of bunting around Battersea Park in London on World Fairtrade Day earlier this month.
Bingley Fairtrade Group joined others in Fairtrade towns, universities, schools and faith groups across the country, in decorating more than 130,000 individual pieces of Fairtrade cotton bunting, with messages to the UK Government and European Parliament demanding an end to unfair cotton subsidies.
Bingley Fairtrade Group chairman Jane Dale said: “The world record attempt is part of the ongoing Great Cotton Stitch-up campaign to end harmful subsidies in the EU and US keeping West African cotton farmers in poverty. This alone won’t change trade but we hope it will act as a message.”
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