by admin | Mar 27, 2011 | General news
Early this morning a small group of Bolton MRT met to journey to Swaledale, North Yorkshire, to join colleagues from a great many other MRTs and the statutory Emergency Services, to take part in this years ’Rescue Challenge 2011,’ organised and hosted by...
by admin | Mar 26, 2011 | 2011, Incident
At 12:07 today,the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) to lend assistance at an incident in the Harwood area of Bolton. The call was answered by experienced team member Mike Marsh, who promptly called out the rest of the team to assist via a full team...
by admin | Mar 24, 2011 | Donations, General news
Twelve months ago, Jill Riding of Horwich, a neighbour of our Team Secretary Gillian Gregory, requested a Bolton MRT collectingbox for the ladies’ locker room at Bolton Golf Club. Gillian Gregorypromptlydelivered a team collectingbox to Jill Ridinglast March...
by admin | Mar 24, 2011 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce today the receipt of a very kind £300.00 wonderful donation from the members of West Derby Rotary Club, Liverpool. This very kind and very much appreciated donation came about as a result of a talk and powerpoint presentation on...
by admin | Mar 23, 2011 | Donations, General news
On Sunday 20th March we reported that young Krisshan Jade Weedall, who has been described as ’Bolton’s youngest busker,’ would be visiting the team tonight to hand over yet another very kind donation to the team. Just after 7pm this evening she duly...
by admin | Mar 23, 2011 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce today the receipt of a marvelous £400.00 donation from our friends and supporters at Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletics Club, following our provision of Standby Rescue Cover at their Annual Winter Hill Fell Race Event, held this...
by admin | Mar 22, 2011 | General news
Yesterday evening we received the sad news that at the ripe old age of sixteen and a half years old, Bolton MRTs first ’mountain rescue search dog,’ ’Search dog Blue,’ sadly passed away. This sad news came from former Bolton MRT member and...
by admin | Mar 20, 2011 | General news
This week the team learned that Krisshan Jade Weedall, ’Bolton’s youngest busker’ had begun busking again in Bolton Town Centre after taking a well earned break through the winter months. With the weather now turning milder, this Saturday saw...
by admin | Mar 17, 2011 | General news
At tonights monthly meeting of our Support Group, the Support Group members officially welcomed Steve James of Horwich, a Director of Extended Services, to the Support Group. Steve has been on a three month ’probation’ period with the Support Group, and he...
by admin | Mar 16, 2011 | General news
Tonight 51 team members and one guest, including 32 Full Team Call Out list members, 4 Reserve Call Out list members, 11 Trainee Team members, 4 members of our Support Group, and former team member Iain Peel, attended our Annual General Meeting and our Election of...
