Another 'Health & Safety" casualty
 

This year's cheese-rolling event in Gloucestershire has been cancelled after concerns about safety because of the number of spectators it attracts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/g...re/8563692.stm

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i feel the same way about football -far to many spectators ,get it banned:td:

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From their own site here as posted by one of their own committee members:

".....can we just make it clear here that the police, council or hse do not organise the cheese roll, nor have they stopped it. We the committee organise the event and now that we have the support and help of the council and police, we WILL continue to do so.
The sad reality is that todays event is a far distant relative of the event I knew as a child. We cannot go back to that, but equally we realise that 15,000+ was eventually going to kill the event for good. We therefore had to act with the consent of the Authorties to save the long term future of the Cheese Roll."

Calm down & carry on as before.

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I'll give this my usual response. If people were less ready to try and claim for absolutely everything then maybe the authorities would be more happy for such an event and it's associated large crowds to take place.

Obviously when the council and police force are found liable in any ensuing personal injury case, then people's opinion will change to that of anger that public money has had to be used for compensation payouts(even if this is met by insurance, then there will still be an effect on premiums).

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

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BBC news is "rolling off", that's for sure.

Although it's very cute, and traditional and all that, I would find it rather hard to lament the loss of such a particularly stupid event, if it were to be cancelled.
I guess a day out is a day out though....

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You can bet your last pound that the fascist Littlejohn will twist this non-story to suit he's own twisted view of Britain.
Of course he suffers so much in our liberal society, so much so he spends more time in his Florida retreat than in the UK and when he is here he openly admits to rarely going outside the front door!!
This will not stop him bashing Britain, yet again though with his own puerile brand of bigoted homophobic hatred as he claims the above non-story to be gospel...pillock.

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Most excellent news. At least a few people have the bottle to defy the official nutters.

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I've said it once, and i'll say it again, it's the ambulance chasing compensation culture that's led to the cancellation of events. If an organisation such as a LA or the Police give their backing to an event such as this they are also in the firing line if somebody gets injured/killed. Easy way out of this is just not to bother with the event.

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I'm with you 100% on this. Perhaps BP should be pumping lawyers down to plug the well? The most of them are damn-all use for anything else.