Article: Sloping off for a chunk of double Gloucester again?

Some people will do anything for cheese - even hurl themselves off a sheer hillside with the wild abandon of kamikaze lemmings.

Call them crazy or foolhardy. But nobody could accuse the cheese rollers of Brockworth of being cowardly.

As is the custom in this part of Gloucestershire, dozens of daredevils yesterday ran, tumbled and somersaulted their way down the desperately steep slope of Cooper's Hill in pursuit of a 8lb Double Gloucester cheese.

Jason Crowther from Pembrokeshire, west Wales, won the first race to complete a hat-trick of victories over the past three years.

Clutching the 7-8lb Double Gloucester, the bruised and battered 25- year-old said: "There's no training you can do for ...

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