by admin | Jun 6, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a kind letter of thanks for the teams provision of Safety Race Cover for the Darwen Tower Trudge which took place on Sunday 1st June 2008. The Darwen Rotary Club, who organise the Darwen Tower Trudge wrote. “Bolton Mountain Rescue Teams...
by admin | Jun 6, 2008 | 2008, Incident
This evening at 17:10 we received a pager call from NWAS (Manchester Area) regarding the report of a youth who had fallen into a moorland stream on the edge of Smithills Moor, in the vicinity Gilligant’s Farm, Coal Pit Road, Smithills. The initial information was that...
by admin | Jun 5, 2008 | General news
This evening team members provided Standby Rescue Cover for the second year running for the Hendersons End Fell Race which takes in a large circuit of the Rivington and Winter Hill moorlands. This annual event organised by Lostock Athletics Club attracted on this fine...
by admin | Jun 5, 2008 | 2008, Incident
This evening, 27 team members provided standby rescue cover for this year’s Hendersons End Fell Race. Most of the event, which attracted a senior field of 95 runners passed totally without incident when at 20:45 we received a report that a female fell runner had gone...
by admin | Jun 4, 2008 | General news
We are pleased to announce to day that our month-end collection box total for May 2008 is £1,683.98 (this year to date). We currently have 163 collection box locations and the team is as ever very grateful to all who host and contribute to our collection boxes,...
by admin | Jun 4, 2008 | Donations, General news
Back in May, the team received an enquiry from Margaret Nolan, the daughter of Ray and Joan Grayshon of Prestwich. Margaret’s parents were celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary on the 31st May and they had very kindly asked their family and friends to make...
by admin | Jun 4, 2008 | General news
Regular readers of our website guest page will notice a recent kind comment from our colleagues across the Atlantic in Seattle Mountain Rescue. Seattle Mountain Rescue publish an online webpage newsletter and in their June 2008 issue they express kind comments and an...
by admin | Jun 3, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 16:35 today our Team Leader was contacted by Greater Manchester Police regarding the urgent assistance of the team in a developing search for a missing 43 year old man. The man’s van had been located by family members mid-afternoon at Hordern Stoops car park, at...
by admin | Jun 1, 2008 | General news
Organised annually by our friends and supporters in the Rotary Club of Darwen, the Darwen Tower Trudge takes in a delightful route around the reservoirs and hills of Tockholes, Roddlesworth and Darwen, including the moorland heights of Lyons Den, Darwen moor and of...
by admin | May 31, 2008 | General news
This morning our Team Leader, Garry Rhodes MBE and Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon, met with Dr Brian Iddon, MP for Bolton South East, to discuss the progress to date by HM Government with regards to considering financial support for Mountain Rescue Teams within...
