Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling updates as daredevils defy warnings
Madcap Brockworth bank holiday event taking place despite officials urging people to beware of the risks after injuries last yer
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Madcap Brockworth bank holiday event taking place despite officials urging people to beware of the risks after injuries last yer
After a two-year hiatus, Gloucestershire's spectacularly dangerous cheese-rolling competition returns in all its eccentric, gory glory
DESPITE Gloucestershire's historic cheese-rolling event being cancelled again this year, one man has made it his mission to uphold the tradition. Master of the Cheese Jem Wakeman took a 9lb Double Gloucester to the top of Cooper's Hill, near Brockworth, Gloucester as the sun rose this morning, Monday, before ceremonially rolling it to the bottom. He said: "We will definitely be back next year, this can't go on." This year's roll was dedicated to local farmer David Hardwick, a great supporter of the event in previous years, who died after a farming accident last year. The cheese roll...
DESPITE Gloucestershire's historic cheese-rolling event being cancelled this year, one man has made it his mission to uphold the tradition.