And finally… In this weather, they must all be crackers
Nowhere but Rural England could serve up such a wonderfully pythonesque story as this.
The article explains: “Rebel cheese rollers defied the weather yesterday for the chance to chase an 8lb piece of the dairy product down a steep hill.
“They staged their own unofficial event after the world-famous Cheese Rolling was cancelled for a second year running. The race had been advertised on social networking sites, with a page set up on Facebook and people posting messages on Twitter.
“There was a large police presence at entrances to Cooper’s Hill, at Brockworth, near Gloucester, but the event went ahead. Several hundred spectators braved the fog and rain to watch about a dozen daredevil athletes pursue the Double Gloucester cheese 200 metres down the 1 in 2 gradient.”