Tag: Brockworth

Cheese-rolling champion goes out at the top as injuries grate

Chris Anderson’s first experience of falling down the near-vertical hill where an annual cheese-rolling race takes place was when he was a teenager after having a few drinks one night. “I was thrown down there a couple of times when I was drunk,” Anderson, the record-breaking 23-time champion of...

Fears at Cheese Rolling 2023 as no police or paramedics to cover event

Officers say ”the lack of any formal plans from organisers” means no police or ambulance staff will cover the event. Every year hundreds of people gather at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth to watch participants chase a 9lb block of double Gloucester cheese down a hill. However this year concerns...

These are Europe’s most unusual sporting events

Recently, thousands of fearless participants gathered to take part in the annual Royal Shrovetide football game. If you’ve never heard of this violent and absolutely bonkers medieval sport before, picture this: two teams, consisting of about 1,000 people each, gather in a small town in England to play a...