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Steve Kitchen | 12:05 UK time, Tuesday, 1 June 2010

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Hi Steve Kitchen here! With Mark on his hols, I've switched from Drivetime to look after the Breakfast Show and the Blog this week. So far I managed to avoid saying Good Evening and Monday for the whole 3 hours.

I spent my Bank Holiday Monday watching grown men dressed as foxes stagger to the floor after the Tetbury Woolsack Races. It was a busy Tetbury where crowds may have been bolstered by the cancellation of the official Cheese Rolling at Coopers Hill, so I was intrigued to hear on today's show how the unofficial event was received, and if the official Cheese Roll can return.

2nd placed Jamie Lee from Brockworth joined us before heading off to the hospital with a dislocated shoulder. Despite his injury he'd enjoyed a much more local and low key event "as it used to be", and wants big screenings in Brockworth to fend off the large crowd numbers.

Official organiser Richard Jefferies joined me in the studio and told us how ancient laws make an all ticket Cheese Roll impossible. Other text suggestions included spreading the races over a weekend. What do you think? How can Coopers Hill cope with 15,000 people from all over the world?

See a video from yesterday's unofficial cheese rolling on the .

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