by admin | Jan 3, 2015 | 2015, Incident
At 00.33hrs very early this morning the team was paged by GMP regarding our urgent assistance with a developing search for a missing man. The 41 year old man was missing from his Southport home, earlier on Friday 2nd January, and was the subject of a Merseyside Police...
by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | Donations
Today we are very pleased to announce another thoughtful donation, in lieu of presents, in celebration of the 6th December 2014 marriage of Martyn Pollitt and Izzy Neale. This latest donation, of £30.00, has kindly come from Jane Forrest and Colin O’Brien, via Martyn...
by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | Donations
We are very pleased to announce the receipt of a kind £40.00 cash donation received by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE today from a valued team supporter who wishes to remain anonymous. This very thoughtful person regularly supports us, and enclosed this their latest...
by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | Donations, General news
Each month we report on this website how much we collect from the collection boxes we have dotted around the team’s area. Occasionally we will highlight a site which has collected a particularly large amount for us, but all of us at Bolton Mountain Rescue are...
by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce our December 2014 month end collection box figures, with £304.12 collected, against £218.59 for December 2013. Our grand total for donations from Collection Boxes during 2014 is a very pleasing £3,232.29 compared to £2,754.36 for 2013,...
by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | 2015, Incident
Commencing at midnight last night and into the early hours of this morning, as with all previous New Year mornings following on from New Years Eve’s (For seventeen years now, commencing on 31st December 1998) the team had all four of its Land Rover Defender Mountain...
by admin | Dec 31, 2014 | 2014, Incident
As part of our provision of assistance to NWAS (Greater Manchester) during this evenings New Years Eve, our first incident of this evening – and last of 2014 as it turned out, came in at 22.10hrs, when our Bolton Mobile 1 Land Rover was initially despatched to care...
by admin | Dec 31, 2014 | General news
This evening as with all previous New Year Eve’s (For seventeen years now, commencing on 31st December 1998) the team had all four of it’s Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances, its Minibus Ambulance and our Incident Control Vehicle available, at the disposal of NWAS...
by admin | Dec 29, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 12:12 today the team was contacted by the North West Ambulance Service (Lancashire) to assist with an incident where a lady had slipped on ice. The 64 year old lady had been walking with family members descending the track from Darwen (Jubilee) Tower where she had...
by admin | Dec 28, 2014 | General news
At 13.00hrs this sunny afternoon, with snow still on the local moors, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by NWAS Lancashire EOC, requesting the teams assistance with a local incident. At the time Garry was travelling up to the Lake District for a...
