Gloucestershire cheese rolling event strains emergency services

A food rolling utmost athletics lawsuit enactment a strain connected the exigency services, a information advisory radical has said.

Hundreds of competitors chased a 7lb (3kg) food down Coopers Hill, adjacent Gloucester, connected Monday.

People suffered injuries including breached ankles, concussion, a breached leg, and a suspected seizure.

The Tewkesbury Borough Safety Group (SAG) said constabulary and occurrence services would nary longer unit the lawsuit until organisers came up with a information plan.

In a statement, the SAG, which monitors information astatine nationalist events, said six radical were taken to infirmary by ambulance aft Monday's event.

"Double-crewed ambulances and accelerated effect vehicles needed a constabulary escort to summation entree to the site, successful bid to wide a way done the crowds.

"This enactment a strain connected the resources of some Gloucestershire Constabulary and South West Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust for a sizeable time," the SAG added.

The group, which advises connected information astatine events, said it had "no tendency oregon power" to halt the lawsuit but called for organisers to travel up with a decent information plan.

"In the interim, police, occurrence and ambulance services volition not beryllium successful attendance astatine the event, though of people volition respond to immoderate emergencies," the SAG connection added.

The yearly lawsuit attracts thousands of spectators, including immoderate from crossed the world.