by admin | Jan 20, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Today, with the knowledge that 8 team members were in two team Landrover vehicles within the team area practising driver training skills and local area awareness, NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) requested the assistance of both vehicles to a code amber road traffic...
by admin | Jan 19, 2008 | General news
Today we received a very kind letter of thanks from Lynda Shaw of Thornton-Cleveleys, the lady who sustained a fractured leg in a fall at Moses Gate Country Park, Farnworth, on the afternoon of Saturday 22nd December. 22 team members responded to a call from NWAS...
by admin | Jan 19, 2008 | Donations, General news
On the very early morning of Wednesday 12th December, team member Ged Clarke presented a short talk on the team to the Rotary Club of Bolton Daybreak. We are pleased to announce today the receipt of a kind donation of £50 from the Rotary Club of Bolton Daybreak...
by admin | Jan 11, 2008 | General news
The figure of persons that have now expressed a wish to join our team by applying via our on line application form has now reached 26 individuals. All to date have been invited to our Thursday evening February 21st introductory indoor session and our all day Sunday...
by admin | Jan 11, 2008 | General news
Today, due to a house move, ultimately out of the team area, valued team Support Group member Carolyn Sawyer has sadly decided to leave the team. Carolyn sends her best wishes to us all for the future. In turn, we send Carolyn our best wishes for her future and good...
by admin | Jan 10, 2008 | General news
Richard Hankins was a team call out list member from joining in January 1991, upto his leaving the team in January 1999, and now lives with his wife and two young children in Cheshire. ( their third child is due in May ). During his team in the team Richard...
by admin | Jan 9, 2008 | General news
To date we’ve had 17 membership enquiries regarding the team’s introduction days in February 2008 – for more information on team membership click here. Most of the membership applications have arrived within the last 3 days – a testament...
by admin | Jan 9, 2008 | General news
At a Special General Meeting held this evening prior to the commencement of our routine Wednesday evening outdoor exercise (and incidentally held in somewhat typically for a Mountain Rescue Team, the pouring down rain of the moorland car park exercise RVP), Team...
by admin | Jan 7, 2008 | General news
Well you may have watched tonight’s episode of Coronation Street and wasn’t it gripping stuff, with the RAF helicopter & Keswick Mountain Rescue Team. Bolton MRT also had a part to play in that storyline as Dave Healey, our Radio Communications...
by admin | Jan 7, 2008 | General news
Today we received the news that Emma Peel, a member of the team’s Support Group since its inception in April 2005, has decided to step down due to many other voluntary commitments on her time. Over the past two and a half years Emma has helped the team’s...