by admin | Sep 12, 2010 | General news
This weekend, commencing Friday evening 10th September, two team members journeyed to Dublin for the Bi Annual Ireland and UK Mountain Rescue Weekend Conference. Whilst our Team Training Officer Elaine Gilliland took her car via the ferry, team member Diane Blakeley...
by admin | Sep 12, 2010 | General news
Today saw 18x Full team Callout Members and 8x Support Group members travel to City Airport Manchester, (Barton) to display at this years City Airport Open Day and Fly in. This was the City Airports third Open Day and Fly in of recent years, and thankfully the rain...
by admin | Sep 11, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 18:44 this evening, the team was contacted by NWAS (Manchester) Paramedic Emergency control, regards an incident in the vicinity of Ladyshore Road, Little Lever. A 48 year old male was reported to have fallen several metres down a steep embankment whilst walking...
by admin | Sep 11, 2010 | General news
Today we received a kind letter from trainee team member Helen Rigby tendering her resignation from the team due to health reasons. Helen joined the team in this year’s January intake, and has proved herself to be a capable and valued team member, getting...
by admin | Sep 9, 2010 | General news
Following the successful awarding of a marvelous £3,000.00 donation to the team by the Bolton Council and Voluntary Services Small Grants Round of June 2010, (See website ’news’ article dated 26th June 2010) and a meeting with Mark Grundy of Bolton...
by admin | Sep 8, 2010 | 2010, Incident
As most team members were in bed or about to go to bed after a particularly hard Wednesday night exercise (On the Red Rocks crag overlooking the River Croal, Little Lever) we were paged at 23.55hrs by Lancashire Constabulary with a request to assist them in an urgent...
by admin | Sep 8, 2010 | General news
This evening our Team Life Vice President Tony McNally visited the Friends of Roe Green Group at their meeting place of the Methodist Church, Roe Green, Worsley, to give a presentation to them on the work of the team. Tony reported that the mixed group of over forty...
by admin | Sep 8, 2010 | General news
Regular readers will be familiar with the walk from Adlington to Haworth undertaken this summer by Jayne Bayliss in the company of two friends, to raise money for the Bolton MRT. Today we are very happy to have received from Jayne a ’third’ batch of...
by admin | Sep 7, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 14.46hrs this afternoon we were paged by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service to assist GMFRS at a ’Fire Service Special Service Call’ incident involving a male stuck on the disused high level Partington Railway Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, in the...
by admin | Sep 7, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today we have received a large number of donations all in the memory of the late Mr Eric Edmund Leigh of Paderborn Court, Bolton. Eric Leigh died on 26th July 2010 and in lieu of flowers it was suggested that donations be made in his memory to Bolton Mountain Rescue...
