by admin | Jan 23, 2015 | Donations
Today we are very pleased to announce the receipt via the Charities Aid Foundation, of yet another thoughtful, generous and much appreciated, kind donation of £30.00 from Team friend and very valued supporter, Mr John Thornley of Horwich, Bolton. As ever, all the team...
by admin | Jan 22, 2015 | General news
This evening the team was contacted by Dave Mitchell via Facebook. Dave was a member of staff present with the group involved on today’s incident, when one of the children had a snow sledging accident at Rivington (See Incident 23) “A big thank you from all the...
by admin | Jan 22, 2015 | 2014, Incident
At 12.05hrs this chilly afternoon, with a large amount of snow lying on the local moors, including still freezing conditions, we were paged by NWAS EOC Broughton, regards a twelve year old boy “fallen from sledge – leg injury,” on a track near Rivington Hall. A...
by admin | Jan 21, 2015 | General news
Yesterday – Tuesday 20th January, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted by a GMP Missing Person Search Manager, regarding the assistance of MRTs to a missing person search enquiry in the Greater Manchester area. Given the circumstances, a multi team response...
by admin | Jan 21, 2015 | Training
This evening, in wintry conditions of snow lying on the local moors, team members took part in an area familiarity and navigation exercise on and around Holcombe Moor and Holcombe Hill above Bury. We border this high moorland area with our colleagues at Rossendale and...
