by admin | May 30, 2006 | General news
This evening the second group of team members travelled to enjoy the hospitality of RNLI Fleetwood Lifeboat station enjoyed somewhat calmer conditions than those who visited last week. In fact this week our members who ventured out in the RIB and on board the relief...
by admin | May 28, 2006 | General news
With grateful thanks to Salmons Caterers Limited, the team today held a second hand book sale at Rivington Hall Barn. The team has been collecting second hand books (excellent quality only, generally read the once from purchase) for a while now, mostly donated by our...
by admin | May 27, 2006 | General news
Its been quite a while since we last had a Sea King Search and Rescue helicopter working with the team on the local moorlands, indeed the last time was in very tragic circumstances when in February 2000 a Robinson helicopter crashed on Heapey Moor with three...
by admin | May 24, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 14:02 today, Greater Manchester Police contacted the team for assistance regarding a 79 year old resident of Smithills, Bolton, missing from home, with Police being very concerned for his well being. A comprehensive localised search was then planned, centred...
by admin | May 23, 2006 | General news
The team has a policy of joint exercising with other emergency services and emergency providers, including those we work with, and sometimes those we do not work with. From such exercises we can gain an interesting insight into how others work and operate, which helps...
by admin | May 21, 2006 | General news
Following on from the previous standby rescue cover, which had commenced early in the morning, team members went on to provide standby rescue cover at the annual sponsored Rivington Pike walk, organised by Horwich New Heart Club, to raise money for the New Heart...
by admin | May 21, 2006 | General news
The team today provided standby rescue cover for the annual Darwen Tower Trudge, organised by Darwen Rotary Club, which took place on a route from Sunnyhurst Woods across to Roddlesworth Reserviors, over Darwen Moor to Darwen Tower, and returning to Sunnyhurst Woods....
by admin | May 19, 2006 | General news
At this year’s annual team dinner our Team Leader, Vernon Garry Rhodes (his full name!) was presented with a beautiful framed Certificate from Mountain Rescue England and Wales, a 25 years Long Service Award, in gatitude for many years of outstanding...
by admin | May 19, 2006 | General news
This evening saw the team holding its 38th Annual Team Dinner at the excellent venue of The Watermillock, Bolton. Organised by team member Alison Yates and her husband, ex team member Geoff Yates, the evenings’ meal and after dinnner entertainment attracted 91...
by admin | May 18, 2006 | General news
Support group members Emma Peel and Mandy Aspinall acquired an interesting, unusual and potentially valuable asset for the Team recently in the form of a signed Bolton Wandererss Football Club pennant. It was given by the management of BWFC in order for the team to...
