by admin | Apr 9, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At circa 13.35hrs this afternoon, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson, was contacted for his specialist assistance, to join with NEWSAR Team in a search operation in the Wrexham area for a missing male, being co-ordinated by North Wales...
by admin | Apr 5, 2013 | General news
With thanks to our friend Simon Fox of Darwen Dashers Running Club, we are pleased to announce FELL! an evening of Off Road Running Films presented by Darwen Dashers and Friends of Darwen Library at Darwen Aldridge Community Academy, Sudell Road, Darwen, 7.00pm on...
by admin | Apr 3, 2013 | General news
We are sad to announce today that we have received news that Long time ‘old’ friend of our team and others in this region, Brian Morgan, sadly passed away this morning after a period of illness in Preston Hospital. Those in and associated with Bolton MRT...
by admin | Apr 3, 2013 | General news
We are very pleased to announce our March month end 2013 collection box figures, with £326.61p collected, against £178.05p for March 2012. Our year to date collection box total is £624.71p against £815.20p for 2012. We currently have 129x...
by admin | Apr 1, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 17.28hrs early this evening we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway for our assistance at an off road motorcycling accident in the Leigh area. NWAS (Manchester) EOC had also mobilised the NWAS HART Team from Trafford Park to this same incident, and an NWAS...
by admin | Apr 1, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 03.09hrs in the early hours of this Easter Monday morning we were paged by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service to jointly attend with them an incident possibly requiring line rescue access, as part of the PDA (Pre Determined Attendance) agreement GMFRS have...
by admin | Mar 30, 2013 | General news
Today the team provided ‘Standby Rescue Cover’ for the annual Easter Saturday Rivington Pike Fell Race. Organised by Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletics Club, this short distance but gruelling height gain (And immediate height loss on the return stretch !)...
by admin | Mar 30, 2013 | General news
At our Support Group meeting of Thursday 28th March 2013, formal thanks was recorded (Echoed by the operational team membership) to Johanne Lamb, who stepped down at our March 20th Annual General Meeting as Treasurer, and also at the same time formally left the team...
by admin | Mar 29, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Following Police concern for the welfare of a missing 49 year old man from the Wrexham area, who had been missing since last being seen at circa 18.00hrs on Monday 25th March 2013, when he left Wrexham Maelor Hospital, North Wales Police called out the North East...
by admin | Mar 29, 2013 | General news
With a tradition going back over a hundred years, every Good Friday (Regardless of the weather) a Fair has been held in close proximity to the high moorland landmark of Rivington Pike, with the Fair itself being set up on the moorland road of Georges Lane (Now an...
