Daredevils race down dangerous hill chasing a 7lb Double Gloucester at annual cheese rolling festival
DARDEVILS risk life and limb yesterday — chasing a 7lb Double Gloucester down a dangerous incline. Four races were held in the 197th Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling at Cooper’s Hill near Brockworth. 2 Daredevils risk their safety chasing a roll of cheese down a steep hill as an annual tradition...
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...
PETA writes letter to Gloucestershire cheese-rollers urging them to use vegan alternative
Animal welfare charity PETA has written a letter to Gloucestershire’s cheese-rollers asking them to end the use of Double Gloucester cheese in the world-famous annual event at Cooper’s Hill. The cheese-rolling is held on the second bank holiday of May every year, with races for men, women and children. This year...