by admin | Dec 24, 2010 | General news
Well it happened last year in the snow, and with the snow present this year another Christmas Eve Call Out was to be expected. At 15.33hrs it happened, with a pager message to contact NWAS (Manchester) Control. Answered promptly by our Team Leader, the call was to...
by admin | Dec 23, 2010 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce today the kind donation of £15.00 from former long serving team member and ex Team Training Officer Ann Shaw, who sent in her donation with Christmas wishes in lieu of sending Christmas cards. In return and with thanks, all your...
by admin | Dec 23, 2010 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased today to announce the receipt of a kind personal £20.00 donation from Mr David Wrenall of Sharples, Bolton. Mr Wrenall is the Speakers Secretary for Worsley Probus Club, to whom we gave a lecture presentation on the work of the team to on 2nd...
by admin | Dec 23, 2010 | Donations, General news
Our Chair, Ken Oakes, was recently pleased to accept the kind donation of £20 from Mrs. Janice Sheaffer, a Bolton resident. Janice is a work colleague of Ken’s wife, at the High Street Library in Bolton, who contributes to charities at Christmas in lieu of...
by admin | Dec 23, 2010 | Donations, General news
Team Trainee / Call Out list member Martin Banks, who works for AXA Technology Services as a HR Business Partner recently mentioned that due to the consolidation of office premises from two locations to one location in Lytham, Lancashire, AXA Technology Services had a...
by admin | Dec 22, 2010 | General news
This evening the team held a Christmas Social at the Jolly Crofters Public House on Chorley Old Road, Horwich, organised by team members Ana Toole and Neil Aspinall. Twenty six call Out list members attended, five members of our Support Group, and eight of our...
by admin | Dec 22, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 16:03 this afternoon, the team was contacted by NWAS (Manchester), requesting our assistance at a sledging incident in the vicinity of Jumbles Reservoir, north of Bolton. The call was answered by experienced team member Mike Marsh, who promptly called out the rest...
by admin | Dec 22, 2010 | General news
Team Eagley Bank Fund Raisers who have kindly made us their Charity of the Year 2010-2011, held a Charity Carol Service in aid of the team in the Eagley Bank area on Saturday evening, 18th December 2010. The team was due to attend in some strength, along with two...
by admin | Dec 22, 2010 | General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received the following email greeting from Police Sergeant Kim Sturgess of Lancashire Constabulary Civil Contingencies Unit (a Police Search Advisor and Co-Ordinator) “Can I take this opportunity to thank you and all your...
by admin | Dec 21, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At just after 15.30hrs a 999 call was made concerning a 12 year old boy from Edgworth, who had injured himself in a sledging accident on the snow covered slopes above Wayoh Reservoir. NWAS (Manchester) Control paged the team for assistance at 15.38hrs, co-incidentally...
