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News - The new-look 2011 Gloucester Cheese Rolling event has been cancelled, organisers announced today, following threats and abuse from disgruntled members of the public.
Despite plans for a new two-day ticketed format, the 2011 Cheese Rolling has been cancelled.
While the introduction of a £20 entrance fee to watch the 2011 Cheese Rolling action from the slopes of Cooper’s Hill in Gloucester was never going to be a popular move, organisers have now announced the cancellation of this year’s event because of threats and abuse of committee members.
Following a meeting on Tuesday 22 March 2011, the Cheese Rolling committee decided that the public backlash about the new two-day paid formula had made the event unworkable – with individual committee members having reported verbal abuse, being spat at and threatened with violence.
The 2009 event attracted a crowd of around 15,000 people to a venue equipped to cope with only 5,000, with the 2010 subsequently event being cancelled over health and safety concerns.
In despite of a new controlled and ticketed format for 2011, it is now feared that the world famous event, with a history dating back hundreds of years, will now die.
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