by admin | Jun 13, 2006 | General news
As part of the Horwich Carnival races, Horwich RMI Harriers & Athletics Club organised tonights Lever Park run. This event takes place through the tracks of Lever Park, up through the Terraced Gardens, returning via the Pigeon Tower to Lower House and back into...
by admin | Jun 11, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 13:45 today, Greater Manchester Police requested the team’s assistance in the search for a 29 year old vulnerable male who had been missing since 17:00 the previous day, in the Platt Bridge area of Wigan. As the team was assembling the good news came through that...
by admin | Jun 11, 2006 | General news
At 00:20 early this morning, Greater Manchester Ambulance Service requested the team’s assistance over a period of Peak Demand on the Ambulance Service. 11 team members, crewing 3 team vehicles dealt with 7 calls from 00:55 until 03:40. The calls were of a...
by admin | Jun 10, 2006 | General news
Today at the Morrisons store, Blackhorse Street, Bolton, various Team and Support Group members were out with the collecting buckets, steadfastly choosing to fundraise for the team when instead they could have been relaxing & watching the England v. Paraguay game!...
by admin | Jun 9, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 19:55 this evening, the team was contacted to assist GMAS at an incident on the slopes of Holcombe Moor near Bury. A 65 year old male had slipped and taken a tumble on steep ground above Redisher Woods, sustaining injuries to his arm and ribs. Team members Mike...
by admin | Jun 8, 2006 | General news
The team accepted an invitation to attend this the last GMAS Awards Ceremony before the July 1st 2006 formation of the new North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes, Deputy Leader Geoff Seddon, Senior Team member Mike Marsh and Vice...
by admin | Jun 8, 2006 | Donations, General news
Small and large it all gets reported here. On Sunday June 4th some team members out in a team landrover offered help to a broken down motorist with a flat tyre. they ended up changing the flat for the motorists spare, and for this we received a kind £10.00...
by admin | Jun 7, 2006 | General news
Our thanks are recorded yet again to those wonderful people at Total Tyre Services, Leigh, who recently came to our rescue when we suffered a punctured tyre on our Landrover Ambulance BM 1. Not only did they journey to us to repair the tyre at our Bolton Fire station...
by admin | May 31, 2006 | Donations, General news
Following our provision of Standby Rescue Cover on the Rotary Club of Darwens Tower Trudge event of Sunday 21st May, see seperate entry, we received today a truely wonderful donation of £200.00 from The Rotary Club of Darwen. Darwen Rotary Club remain steadfast...
by admin | May 31, 2006 | General news
We ae reporting this donation a little late as we received the donation in May, but with members holidays etc., we are reporting it now. Tony McNally when he was Team Chairman, (he is now an Honorary Vice President for Life) applied to the Provincial Insurance Company...