by admin | Oct 16, 2004 | Donations, General news
We were pleased to receive today a £50.00 donation, arising from our assistance to Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletic Club on their late August “Horwich Triathlon” event. (see our August news section for a write up on this)
by admin | Oct 13, 2004 | General news
Thanks to the kind discount offered by Panorama Antennas, with particular thanks to Stuart Gray, their general Manager, the team has been able to purchase enough Mag Mount aerials to equip all 44x operational members. This means team members will now be able to...
by admin | Oct 10, 2004 | General news
Readers may recall from the September account of the MRC Conference, that we were issued with a free “Blizzard” vest for testing and our observations and comments. On our Wednesday night training of the 6th October, this vest was demonstrated in front of...
by admin | Oct 10, 2004 | General news
With tremendous thanks to our supporter “DT”, we are happy to announce today the donation of a large sum of money which will enable us to purchase Bolton MRT suppporter stickers (The vinyl strip type that can be placed on car windows). The design for this...
by admin | Oct 10, 2004 | General news
Thanks to the tremendous financial support recently obtained from Bolton MBC and our very valued supporter, “DT”, the team today brought into service 27 additional PFD’s (Personal Flotation Devices, better known as Lifejackets). These join 18...
by admin | Oct 9, 2004 | 2004, Incident
The Team was contacted at 02:44 in the morning by Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service, and then 3 minutes later by Greater Manchester Ambulance Service, both regarding the same incident near Barrow Bridge, Bolton. We were asked to respond to an incident...
by admin | Oct 8, 2004 | General news
To bring our new website online with a “bang” was a massive amount of publicity, courtesy of the BBC! Our new website was put live at 00:05 on the morning of the 6th October. By the midnight on the 7th/8th October, the site had handled the most amount of...
by admin | Oct 8, 2004 | General news
Being a voluntary group, our membership is made up of men and women from many diverse occupations as well as ages! We range from a Postman to builders, a plumber to engineers, as well as a number of members in the IT world (and enough teachers and lecturers to fill a...
by admin | Oct 7, 2004 | General news
Our successful SARDA search dog team of handler Dave Marsh and his search dog Chi (perhaps that should be the other way round, as we all know who is really the “boss” in that relationship), journeyed up to Dumfries and Galloway this weekend, where Dave has...
by admin | Oct 7, 2004 | 2004, Incident
The Team was called out this morning to join in the continuing large scale search for three children aged 9, 12 & 13 who had gone missing on the moors above Nelson. An overnight search including Rossendale & Pendle MRT, Calder Valley SRT, SARDA Search Dogs,...
