REBEL runners took to Cooper’s Hill for the annual cheese-rolling races last week, Snapchat tells me.

For those of you used to consuming information via more conventional methods, it is perhaps an alien concept.

I won’t try and explain Snapchat in this column, but featured on its ‘story’ was a series of 10-second clips of competitors chasing an 8lb wheel of cheese at the unofficial event in Gloucestershire.

The ‘official’ event was binned for health and safety reasons in 2010, thanks to runners finishing like Kevin Johnson after two rounds in the ring with Anthony Joshua.

Cheese-based bulletins aside, will Snapchat become yet another tool to feed our need for knowing things instantly, before anyone else?

Twitter is the obvious way, not only in receiving information but also writing the news for us hacks.

A quick browse through my ‘trends’ and I’ve got all the reaction to the FIFA fall out, Dylan Hartley being axed from England rugby union’s World Cup squad and whether the card game bridge should be recognised as a sport.

But, when Ashley Cole lashes out at the FA or Mo Farah has a Twitter row with a GB teammate their social media exploits can quickly become tomorrow’s back pages.

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Then there’s Facebook, Instagram and even Periscope – I stomached 25 seconds of Kevin Pietersen telling fans about his hotel room last week.

While the romantic in me yearns for the feel of print between my fingers, a web-browsing binge proves a quick fix for news junkies.

For example, I learned hundreds of Houston Rockets fans were stuck in the Toyota Center, along with star man Dwight Howard, due to severe flooding last week.

Some were forced to stay all night, Howard lost a car to the floods and the weather also put paid to Manchester City’s friendly fixture with MLS outfit Houston Dynamo.

Back in Europe, and Spaniard Rafael Nadal took to the court in the French Open wearing a sports watch worth a staggering £556,000.

The crowd got a glimpse of one of only 50 limited-edition Richard Mille numbers, which are made from titanium and carbon.

Meanwhile, Slovenia-born Aljaz Bedene competed as the British number two at Roland Garros after being granted a UK passport.

But, who was the last Briton to win a French Open singles title?

Last week’s answer was of course Trevor Brooking – he scored West Ham United’s FA Cup final winner in 1980, while Alan Sunderland won it for Arsenal in ’79 and it was Ricky Villa’s goal for Tottenham in ’81.