by admin | Oct 14, 2009 | General news
Just days over a year since retiring from the team on October 9th 2008, former team member Alison Yates decided that life inside the team beckoned once more, and that she was missing all the team can offer, late nights, no pay, poor working conditions, inconvenient...
by admin | Oct 13, 2009 | General news
We are very pleased to announce today the receipt of a wonderful £250.00 donation from the Bolton and District Hospital Saturday Council. In a kind letter accompanying this surprise donation, the Chief Executive of the Bolton and District Hospital Saturday...
by admin | Oct 13, 2009 | General news
This afternoon, our Team President and former Team Leader Bob Hutchinson visited the mixed men and women of St. Catherine’s Church Friendly Hour Group, Farnworth, to talk about the work of the team. Bob commented afterwards thats it’s a small world, as...
by admin | Oct 12, 2009 | 2009, Incident
This evening at 20.46hrs the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary Force Control Room, regards a developing search in the Sunnyhurst Woods area of Darwen for a man reported to have fallen down a steep wooded slope. With regards to the known circumstances of this...
by admin | Oct 12, 2009 | General news
This evening team call out list members Chris Tennant and Gillian Leigh in one of our Team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances journeyed to the St Elizabeth’s Hall, Aspull, weekly meeting of the Aspull and Haigh Women’s Institute, to present a lecture on...
by admin | Oct 10, 2009 | General news
Today in a complete surprise for Team Call Out list member Dave Healey, whilst assisting with the running of this years Joint Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue weekend, see news article dated Friday 9th October 2009, he was called in to the main lecture room at the...
by admin | Oct 9, 2009 | General news
For the fifth year running, the Team organised and took part in a fully residential Joint Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue based at the excellent facilities of the Bolton Scout District Bibbys Farm Scout Campsite & Activity Centre, at Heath Charnock, nestling...
by admin | Oct 7, 2009 | General news
This evening 14 Full Team Callout members, together with three of our Land Rover Ambulance vehicles visited the home of valued team supporter Derek Bell with a plaque to thank him for his recent donation of £410 in lieu of presents for his 80th birthday. During...
by admin | Oct 7, 2009 | General news
Today our Chairman Ken Oakes, Secretary Gillian Gregory and Life Vice-President Tony McNally met a group of ladies from the Greenbank Sheltered Housing in Horwich, which is run by Places for People. The ladies, with ages ranging from 64 to 85 (for interest the...
by admin | Oct 5, 2009 | General news
We recently learnt that Vera Taylor of Bowland Pennine MRT sadly passed away on the evening of Friday 25th September 2009 following a serious illness. Vera. ’V’ as she was known to many in Bowland Pennine Team, was well known to many of our longer serving...
