by admin | Jun 27, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Early this evening, our Team Leader was contacted by Greater Manchester Police with the request for assistance in the search for a missing male in the Monton/Eccles area. An abandoned vehicle had been found in the difficult to access scrubland of the Ellesmere Park...
by admin | Jun 25, 2008 | General news
At some point over the last weekend our visitor counter, which has been running since the previous version of our website went live on the 31st October 2001, passed the rather massive 500,000 mark. Owing to the rather basic techniques employed on this particular...
by admin | Jun 25, 2008 | General news
As part of a special feature article for the August 2008 issue of Lancashire Life magazine on Bolton, Lancashire Life approached the team recently to request our assistance with a specific article on the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, coinciding with the start of our...
by admin | Jun 25, 2008 | General news
This evening Tricia Nowell visited the team to say a personal thankyou to all the team members who helped her and her daughters, when in the company of her partner Andrew Smith, he tragically drowned in Anglezarke Reservoir whilst saving the life of Tricias daughter...
by admin | Jun 22, 2008 | General news
On Tuesday 15th July, Tim Farron Member of Parliament (Westmorland and Lonsdale) Andy Simpson, MR(E&W)National Publicity Officer and Team Leader RPMRT, and Stewart Hulse MBE, (a former TL of LAMRT) will meet Angela Eagle MP, at the Treasury Office, Westminster,...
by admin | Jun 22, 2008 | General news
Held for the last seven years and with continuous team involvement since 2004, the Horwich Carnival Races are a day long culmination of running and cycling events over the previous week, held within Horwich Town Centre which uniquely is completely closed to traffic...
by admin | Jun 21, 2008 | General news
Today our team joined with other emergency services and health care providers, in a display of vehicles and equipment, to promote their work in Lancashire and particularly the Darwen area. Despite frequent heavy rain showers, the days event was a complete success,...
by admin | Jun 21, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind donation from Mr Stuart Bell of Bolton of £113.50. Stuart recently retired from the Royal Bolton Hospital, and this donation represented a large element of his retirement gift from RBH. In his kind letter attached with his...
by admin | Jun 19, 2008 | General news
Organised by Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletics Club, and forming part of the Horwich Carnival Race series, this Fell Race takes in a course that commences in Horwich, ascends through Wilderswood and Wilders Moor and onto Adam Hill and White Brow, thence to Two Lads...
by admin | Jun 18, 2008 | General news
Tonight the Team met with Mrs Sheila Smith & Mrs Jackie Mather, mother & sister respectively of the Late Andrew Smith who tragically drowned in Anglezarke Reservoir on the evening of Wednesday 14th May 2008, after going to the rescue of his partner’s...
