by admin | May 30, 2008 | General news
We are proud to announce once again that senior Bolton MRT team member Mike Marsh has had the honour of organising and coordinating the Mountain Rescue England & Wales National Party Leader’s Course. Mike has been associated with this course, and its...
by admin | May 28, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 02:17 this morning the team was paged by the GMP Force Control Room Manager regarding the team’s assistance with a report of a young child being dragged into local countryside in the Woodlands area of Flixton, Greater Manchester. Our Team Leader was requested to...
by admin | May 26, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 12:21 the Team was paged by NWAS (GMA) regarding an injured rambler on a footpath, downhill and to the West of Georges Lane, Horwich. A full Team call out was paged with our first member arriving at the roadside ambulance RVP at 12:39. There was a short initial...
by admin | May 25, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Our Team Leader, Garry Rhodes, was contacted by NWAS (LA) at circa 13:50, regarding the Team’s assistance to an injured mountain biker in the vicinity of the Pigeon Tower, Rivington. As the team’s monthly vehicle valet & base cleaning session had just concluded, a...
by admin | May 24, 2008 | General news
Today four Team members – John Parish, Elaine Gilliland, Matthew Hailwood & Joanne Stones, attended the Belthorn Village ’Party in the Park’ event, with a Team Landrover Ambulance. We got out our search and rescue kit in the show field and a...
by admin | May 23, 2008 | Donations, General news
We are pleased to announce the receipt today of a £75 donation from Horwich New Heart Club following our provision of standby rescue cover at Horwich New Heart Club’s annual Rivington Pike sponsored walk on Sunday May 18th this year (see seperate article)...
by admin | May 23, 2008 | Donations, General news
The team is very pleased to have received today a very kind and generous £200 donation from our friends and long term supporters at the Rotary Club of Darwen. On Sunday June 1st, the team will be providing standby rescue cover for the Darwen Rotary Club annual...
by admin | May 22, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we announce the receipt of a number of donations totalling £405 all made in the memory of the late John Hey, whose funeral was held on April 7th 2008. The entire team membership extends its condolences to the late John Hey’s wife Marjorie Hey, his...
by admin | May 21, 2008 | General news
This evening, one of the sisters of the man who sadly drowned in a tragic accident at Anglezarke Reservoir exactly a week ago, visited the home of our Team Leader Garry Rhodes. Unfortunately our TL was away on a Team exercise at the time, but the sister involved, Mrs...
by admin | May 20, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we received a extremely kind and very generous donation of £300 from the Belmont Village Winter Hill Fell Races, for our involement in the races. In a letter attached with the donation, the event organiser and valued Team friend, Dave Bateson comments...
