A 19-year old Canadian woman was unconscious when she won the UK’s extreme, downhill Gloucester cheese-chasing race
The winner of the first Cooper’s hill women’s downhill race smiles with her cheese and supporters after being knocked unconscious during the race on May 29, 2023 in Gloucester, United Kingdom.Annabel Lee-Ellis/Getty Images The winner of this year’s Gloucester cheese rolling race was unconscious by the time she crossed...
Sainsbury’s slashes prices of 40 products including cheese and yoghurt | UK | News
Rocketing commodity prices have sent food price inflation soaring, fuelling Britain’s cost-of-living crisis. However, commodity prices are starting to ease, which is lowering the cost of both producing food and raw ingredients. Sainsbury’s food commercial director Rhian Bartlett said: “Whenever we are paying less for products from our suppliers,...
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...
Skyrocketing food prices now primary driver of Britain’s inflation crisis
Ballooning food prices are now the principle driving force behind Britain’s inflation crisis, after new figures today revealed the cost of household staples has surged at the fastest rate in almost 45 years. Families have been hit with skyrocketing shopping bills, with sugar soaring in cost by 47.4 per...
UK’s Annual Cheese-Rolling Contest Gets A Request From Animal Rights Body
Former winners of Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake. Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake, a challenging yet risky sport, draws competitors from all over the world to Gloucester each year. The extreme sports competition takes place at Cooper’s Hill, close to Gloucester, England, on the Spring Bank Holiday. The main...
Cheese ‘blockade’ warning amid plans to enforce vet checks on EU imports
Britain faces a “blockade” on cheese and meat products from Europe, under plans for new Brexit border checks, the Government has been warned. Industry leaders have sounded the alarm over proposals to introduce border controls on goods arriving from the continent from the end of October. The extra red...
No cheese? Does Ann Widdecombe think she’s Marie Antoinette?
In modern Britain, however, it is not brioche the peasants can’t afford, it’s cheese. Widdecombe, ballroom dance survivor and former MP, made an appearance on Politics Live this week and was asked her thoughts on BBC research that shows the cost of a cheese sandwich has risen by 40p...
The melting magic of the perfect cheese toastie — and how to make one
Joseph Campbell was a bloke with interesting ideas. An American writer and professor of literature, he specialised in comparative mythology. Among his many ideas about character archetypes, heroes’ journeys and a bunch of other stuff that’s left us with Star Wars and screenwriting courses, was The Monomyth, the notion...