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Cheese
Rolling Cheshire Style Wins For Third Year Running |
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After a
hardened battle between the big cheeses a team of Cheshire cheese
high-rollers narrowly beat old rivals Stilton, blue with cold in the
rainy city streets of Chester. Cheshire kept their cool, their title
and the cup to roll their way into the record books to launch the
fifth Chester Food and Drink Festival held over the Easter weekend.
Hundreds of
spectators lined Chester's ancient Bridge Street Rows to gain a
vantage point. Sheriff of Chester Cllr. Colin Bain started each race
involving teams from Cheshire, Lancashire, Stilton, Visit Chester
& Cheshire and Chester's Platinum Lounge.
Cheshire
Cheese is, along with the grinning Cheshire Cat, one of the regions
most famous exports and renowned Cheshire Cheese maker, John Bourne
of HS Bourne, who still makes his cheese in the same way as his
great, great grandfather did 300 years ago, led the Cheshire team
with his son Hugo captaining the victorious team.
Stephen
Wundke, Chairman of the Chester Food and Drink Festival, said:
"The cheese rolling event always launches the annual Chester
Food & Drink Festival on a roll. It is fast becoming one of the
biggest food festivals in the country especially now we're running it
over the Easter weekend."
Other members
of the winning 'Made in Cheshire' team included Nick Thomas of The
Cheese Shop in Northgate Street, Nick Bates, co-owner of Brasserie
10/16 in Brookdale Place and Tom Hughes of Made in Cheshire.
There was a
producers market near The Cross with 10 stalls selling quality local
fayre and entertainment was provided by Bang Out Productions, who are
based in Chester, an internationally flavoured class-act with
Monsieur Fromage and members of the winning team of the 1882 Cheese
Rolling Challenge.
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