Cheeserolling competition still happened

Police were branded crackers yesterday (Thurs) after banning an elderly grandmother from making a massive Double Gloucester for an annual cheese rolling event.Farmer Diana Smart, 86, has been making a special hand-made wheel of cheese for the downhill run for a quarter of a century.The event started in the early 1800s and sees daredevils chasing cheese down the 200-yard Cooper's
Hill near Brockworth, Glos.Every year the massive 1ft diameter cheese has been rolled down the hill – followed by brave competitors who risk life and limb to chase it and reach the bottom first.But Diana, who has provided the large piece of cheese since 1988, has now been warned off doing so for this year's race on Monday – after a visit by police.Three officers visited her farm and told her not to donate five 8lb wheels of her cheese – in a bid to prevent the “dangerous” event.Diana, who makes cheese at her Old Ley Court farm in Churcham, Glos, was warned she could be liable for anybody injured – and so has
pulled out.