by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | General news
With continuing snowfalls throughout Greater Manchester this afternoon and into the early evening, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre to place the team on standby for snow-related incidents. Barely had Garry...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | General news
Its nice to report when the business world helps the Team out and here is one such example. Over the years Panorama Antennas have supported the Bolton MRT by providing a generous discount on the purchase of antennas for our radio handsets, vehicles & base...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | General news
As many team members already know, the team uses a large amount of paper as part of its back-office administrative work. This paper has been supplied to the team for many years by Lyreco, who continue support us by way of a fantastic discount on the paper and...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | General news
It was only back on the 22nd December 2009 that we reported on our website the kind donation of £135.00 from our friends and valued supported at Bolton HF Walking Group. This morning we received another kind donation from Bolton HF Walking Group of £31.00,...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | General news
As an update to our previous story (see news item dated Wednesday 27th January 2010), this morning Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon and our Vehicles Equipment Officer Chris Greenhalgh journeyed to the Greater Manchester Police Claytonbrook complex to collect our latest...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | General news
Steven Fletcher, Stephen Kenworthy and Elaine Gilliland were the first emergency service on scene at 04:21 AM on New Year’s Day, when the team was called to a woman in labour. Arriving on scene our three team members were faced with a baby girl who had been born...
by admin | Feb 1, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind letter from Joe Bury of Chorley, Lancashire, sadly informing us that his wife Anne Colette Bury had died on the morning Christmas Eve 2009. A number of donations were made in the memory of Anne Colette, not only to the Bolton Mountain...
by admin | Jan 31, 2010 | General news
Well the first month of 2010 has passed us by and yet again we are happy to report the continuing success of our Collection Box fundraising. To date (January end) our collection box total stands at £510.67p, which is all thanks to our fantastic supporters out...
by admin | Jan 30, 2010 | General news
This evening a Greater Manchester Police Search Manager, contacted our Team Leader direct for possible assistance in a missing from home search, in the Wythenshawe area of South Manchester. As our Team Leader was on holiday at the time, the call was redirected by him...
by admin | Jan 30, 2010 | General news
On Sunday 20th September 2009 (see news article dated the same), a small party from the team visited City Airport Manchester, primarily with regards to light aircraft crash rescue incidents. Since this date, our Team Leader was approached by Nick Duriez, Operations...