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Cheese rolling on Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire usually attracts up to 15,000 adrenaline junkies and spectators this year it also attracted a stag do.

This historic event was cancelled this year however. Hundreds of people still turned up as a tribute to this ancient spectacle ignoring cheese rolling cancelled signs and the large police presence. The “Unofficial” event was indeed very well organised!

There were four downhill races as normal, starting exactly at the Official starting time of Midday. The “Organisers” of this unofficial event had arranged their own Master of Ceremonies and a fine line of catchers at the foot of the hill. A Double Gloucester Cheese is traditional used dressed in white with the customary blue and red ribbons. The cheese used this year was somewhat smaller than usual, to reduce the danger of injury if the cheese went astray!

An heroic groom to be Nima Nasseri from Sheffield decided to add cheese rolling to his stag do frivolities and told the reporter from Gloucestershire Echo “I’m getting married in six weeks so if I get injured I’ll have plenty of time to recover!”

His mates Andrew Goodrick and Tom Helliwell who were attending his stag party also had a go “we thought it would be a great idea for a stag do, and we are really looking forward to it.”

All members of the stag group made it down this hill in one piece.