by admin | Nov 8, 2012 | 2012, Incident
In the continuation of the search for Graham Roskell, (See Incident 77 and Incident 78) our SARDA (Wales) specialist Trailing Search Dog Boris, along with his handler, Bolton MRT member Steve Nelson, was again called out to assist, leaving his Bury home at 09.50hrs to...
by admin | Nov 8, 2012 | General news
In 2011, Her Majesty’s Government announced an annual grant to be utilised for team search and rescue equipment purposes, open to all teams within Mountain Rescue England and Wales, our national representative body. The grant from HMG administered and...
by admin | Nov 7, 2012 | General news
This evening, the ten people taken on at our October 2012 new team member recruitment intake, commenced their ‘Probationary Team Member’ training period with the team, which will see them attending specific training activities each Wednesday evening, prior...
by admin | Nov 7, 2012 | General news
Christmas is still a while off yet but we have already been invited by two very kind groups to receive donations around Christmas time, in aid of the work of the Bolton MRT. St Georges Holy Royal Arch Masons Chapter No. 1723 wish to present us with a very supportive...
by admin | Nov 6, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 19.29hrs this damp evening, we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre to respond to an incident in the Wigan area. The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE who gathered further information from NWAS ECC and then paged out the full...
