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A young woman wearing a denim jacket and a white blouse holds up the cheese she won at the Gloucestershire cheese rolling races. She has blonde hair and is smiling at the camera

Gloucestershire in Pictures: Cheesy does it

The legacy of the traditional races lives on as two winners are in the news again.

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Image of a woman in a green charity shirt and yellow trouser holding up a large round cheese with people watching at the side of a very steep hill. The second image is of a woman in a commercial kitchen grating cheese into a metal bowl

Winner's cheese wheel served up to rough sleepers

Ava Sender Logan donates her big wheel of Double Gloucester after winning the traditional race.

A woman with blonde hair and wearing a blue denim jacket smiles as she balances a round double gloucester cheese on her head

Cheese-rolling champion finally awarded missing prize

Some thought the cheese had been stolen - but it was later found in a volunteer's fridge.

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A performer sprays fire and sparks around them as they perform for the crowds at Wychwood Festival 2025

Gloucestershire in Pictures: Wychwood and cheese rolling

Gloucester Rugby just miss out on the play-offs, and a look back at the action from Cooper's Hill.

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A photo of the Banksy piece of art. A metal bollard is in the foreground on the pavement, while a painting of a lighthouse is on the wall superimposed with a quote "I want to be what you saw in me".

New Banksy art and football club sold

A round up of stories from local newspapers and the BBC from the past week in the West of England.

A man with an arm wrapped in bandages is helped away from Cooper's Hill by a paramedic and another competitor following a fall at the Gloucestershire cheese rolling event.

Two cheese-rolling contestants taken to hospital

Multiple ambulances were sent to the traditional event, which is officially classed as "unsafe".

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People compete in the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake competition near Brockworth. A number of men are running down the steep grass hill.

Cheese rolling and the 80-year-old newsagent

A look at the stories that are trending across the West of England on Tuesday 27 May.

Tom Kopke, from Munich, holds a cheese wheel after winning the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling - he is bare-chested and has straight, fair hair. he has a smile on his face

YouTuber 'risks his life' for cheese-rolling win

Tom Kopke is among the winners at the annual event down Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire.

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A man with a light coloured buzzcut holds two wheels of cheeses at the foot of Cooper's Hill near Gloucester following the annual cheese rolling races. He is wearing a fuchsia coloured Nike sweatshirt. The steep hill can be seen behind him, as can a crowd of people.

Cheese rolling champions to be honoured in races

The men took home more than 30 cheeses between them during their cheese rolling careers.

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