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<br />1800s and sees daredevils chasing cheese down the 200-yard Cooper's<br />Hill near Brockworth, Glos.Every year the massive 1ft diameter cheese<br />has been rolled down the hill - followed by brave competitors who risk<br />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<br />off doing so for this year's race on Monday - after a visit by<br />police.Three officers visited her farm and told her not to donate five<br />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<br />pulled out.
