by admin | Nov 17, 2006 | General news
This afternoon four team members in our Landrover Ambulance Bolton Mobile 4 departed for an exercise which we believe entails the longest distance we have ever travelled for a Joint Mountain Rescue exercise. The four, Team Chairman Ken Oakes, our Training Officer Fred...
by admin | Nov 17, 2006 | General news
Team member Neil Ramsbottom is commencing this evening a weekends course in Mountain Rescue Party Leadership, as a guest of our colleagues at Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team, who have organised their own in – house Party Leadership course. When Neil returns...
by admin | Nov 16, 2006 | Donations, General news
We report lectures and subsequent donations under the Fundraising part of our website, see Lectures, but sometimes on top of the donation we receive at a lecture from the group itself, we sometimes receive individual donations which we report here. this evening four...
by admin | Nov 15, 2006 | General news
On Friday evening, 10th November, we heard that ex team member and former Horwich Church Minister Mike Thomason, serving with the British Army as a Chaplain with the Combat Support Engineer Regiment in Iraq, had been injured in a rocket attack on his camp in Basra,...
by admin | Nov 13, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 22.31hrs late this evening, the team was paged to assist Greater Manchester Police with the urgent search for a missing 80 years old man in the Stretford area of Manchester. The man had been missing since late afternoon, after going out for a walk in a nearby park...
by admin | Nov 12, 2006 | Donations, General news
Two catering establishments within our team area support the team by having collecting boxes and also selling second hand books to raise money for the team. Recently the mother of Team member Craig Lamb donated to the team a very large quantity of ’read once...
by admin | Nov 12, 2006 | General news
As is the tradition now with the team, we attended todays Remembrance Sunday Service at the Bomber Memorial overlooking Lead Mines Valley on the fringes of Anglezarke Moor. The Memorial is erected to the memory of six Australian aircrew killed in the Second World War,...
by admin | Nov 10, 2006 | Donations, General news
We report Lectures and subsequent donations under the Fundraising part of our website, see Lectures, but sometimes on top of the donation we receive at a lecture from the group itself we sometimes receive donations from individuals present which we specifically report...
by admin | Oct 30, 2006 | Donations, General news
The team continues to receive donations in the memory of the Late Reverend Michael Robinson, arising from our search for him in May of this year. Today the team received a donation of £30.00 via Ashton Brookes, Funeral Directors of Altrincham. The team has now...
by admin | Oct 29, 2006 | General news
Current readers of our website will be aware of the recent opening of the new outdoor equipment shop in Westhoughton, Alpine Extreme. At the pre-opening review day last week Paul O’Rourke the owner of the shop kindly donated £300 to the Team and pledged...
