by admin | May 18, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 19:03 this evening our Team Leader was contacted by Greater Manchester Police Force Duty Manager for the team’s urgent assistance with a search operation rapidly escalating for a missing 4 year old male in the Warth Fold area of Bury. A full team pager callout was...
by admin | May 18, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Whilst members were en-route back to our base at the conclusion of our involvement with the Horwich New Heart event, we were paged at 16:14 by NWAS Greater Manchester to attend an incident in the Hindley area with the report of a female walker having fractured her...
by admin | May 18, 2008 | General news
Every year the team supports the Horwich New Heart Pike event which is a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Wythenshawe Hospital Transplant Fund. The team provides standby rescue cover for this event which traditionally has involved some walkers who have had heart...
by admin | May 16, 2008 | General news
This evening saw the team holding its 40th Annual Team Dinner, for the second time at the excellent venue of Dunscar Golf Club, Bolton. (Although rather confusingly, the team’s actual 40th Anniversary Dinner will be May 2009!) Organised very capably by team...
by admin | May 14, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we were pleased to receive a kind donation of £60 from the Bolton South District Scouts 7th Weekend Activity Challenge 2008 event, more commonly known to us as the “Pike View Hike”. This follows our involvement and general help with the event...
by admin | May 14, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Whilst team members were en-route to our usual Wednesday evening outdoor training event, we became aware of an urgent search operation commencing on the shores of Anglezarke Reservoir for a missing man in the water. Our involvement in this incident commenced at 19:46...
by admin | May 11, 2008 | General news
This weekend saw BMRT member Mike Higginbottom taking part in the second driver awareness course of the year provided by Lancashire Constabulary. Following on from Steve Fletcher’s experiences in mid February, Mike, together with Kev Camplin from Bowland Pennine...
by admin | May 11, 2008 | General news
We are pleased to announce to day that our month-end collection box total for April 2008 is £1,527.94 (this year to date). We currently have 159 collection box locations and the team is as ever very grateful to all who host and contribute to our collection...
by admin | May 10, 2008 | General news
This morning at 04:15 Hrs GMP telephoned our TL with regards for an urgent search of a high risk vulnerable missing person in the Sale Water Park area of Sale. As Garry was still on holiday, GMP contacted Geoff Seddon, our Deputy Team Leader. As Geoff was about to...
by admin | May 10, 2008 | General news
On this glorious warm but slightly overcast early summer day, 24 team members provided standby rescue cover for the Belmont Village Winter Hill fell races. There were 3 races in total. Juniors, with 39 competitors, starting at 12.00 and the Trial Race with 42...
