by admin | Apr 12, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we have great pleasure in thanking Mrs Yvonne Knight-Gregson who donated £140.00 to the team on the happy occasion of her 50th birthday. Yvonne in a kind letter with her donation explained that she asked for donations not presents at her recent 50th...
by admin | Apr 12, 2008 | General news
Today 13 team callout members and support group members were present at the Harwood, Bolton store of Morrisons for the first team store collection of the year. A great many kind comments were received by our collectors about the work of the team from a large number of...
by admin | Apr 11, 2008 | General news
On Wednesday April 2nd team members Fred Taylor and Sue Purtill spent all day with the pupils and staff of St Paul’s C.E. Primary School, Crompton Street Walkden, Worsley, on a mountain rescue awareness day (see news item dated April 2nd 2008). Today we received...
by admin | Apr 10, 2008 | 2008, Incident
This morning the team was contacted by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) for assitance with gaining road access to a property where an elderly lady had collapsed, and the state of the access road to the property precluded an ambulance gaining close access. The team was...
by admin | Apr 9, 2008 | General news
On Tuesday 22nd January 2008 a large contingent of cadets and their officers from Eccles 292 Squadron ATC visited the team at our Ladybridge Hall base and commented at the time that they would write in with thanks. Today through our website we would like to thank the...
by admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind £50.00 donation arising from our providing standby rescue cover for this years Easter Saturday Rivington Pike Junior and Senior Fell Races. See website entry for Saturday 22nd March 2008. We are very grateful to Horwich RMI Harriers...
by admin | Apr 6, 2008 | General news
We are pleased to announce to day that our month-end collection box total for March 2008 is £954.25 (this year to date). We currently have 167 collection box locations and the team is as ever very grateful to all who host and contribute to our collection...
by admin | Apr 5, 2008 | Donations, General news
In October 2006, see Incident 124/2006, we assisted Lancashire Ambulance Service, as was, with an emergency call to a domestic property in Chorley, where a man had collapsed outside his house and due to his size the responding LAS crew called upon the services of our...
by admin | Apr 2, 2008 | General news
Today two team members visited St. Paul’s C.E. Primary School in Walkden at the invitation of the Headteacher, Mrs. Deborah Sandercock. The aim of the visit was to participate in the school’s “job week”, where the children gain an insight into...
by admin | Mar 30, 2008 | General news
Today 27 Bolton MRT members provided standby rescue cover for two running events in the Croal/Irwell valley area of Moses Gate Country Park. This event was jointly organised by Bolton Countryside Ranger Service and Bolton Harriers, who together provided all the way...
