It's health and safety gone mad.

They tried to stop it but the plucky Brits were having none of it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282875/Da...

Worth a click just to see Eleanor Walpole's Double Gloucester.

Looks like she's smuggled a couple of edams down her dress

Health and safety you say

There's a hughe field at the top/back of Coopers Hill that you can park in but the farmer charges a stload per car so they all dump them on the road going to stroud so it's a proper nightmare trying to get anywhere.

Health and Safety Executive has not banned this event (any many other things they've been blamed for).

http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/apr10.htm

As usual with things like this health and safety is merely an excuse for people not being able to organise a cheese roll on a steep hill. Probably due to the costs of correctly policing such a popular public event has meant it financially non-viable.

Anyone for a game of conkers....