by admin | Oct 20, 2015 | General news
On Tuesday 22nd September 2015, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ with Greg Bleakley, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and Health, at the School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Bolton, Deane Road. Greg had approached the...
by admin | Oct 20, 2015 | General news
On 21st August 2015 we reported that Mike O’Brien had decided to leave the team for family reasons and to concentrate on a future change in his employment. Mike O’Brien, joined the team in February 2008, having ‘started’ in the outdoors originally with the Air Cadets....
by admin | Oct 20, 2015 | General news
This afternoon our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE took place in a pre recorded interview for local radio station Tower FM. The interviewer asked Garry about the rescue that took place on Winter Hill the previous night (please see website ‘News’ report Incident 78 –...
by admin | Oct 19, 2015 | General news
This morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received the following kind email from the Captain of the HMCG Search and Rescue Helicopter involved in the previous night’s rescue incident on Winter Hill. Dear Sir, Please can you forward our gratitude to the...
by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | 2015, Incident
This evening at 17.45hrs as dusk was setting in, the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary to respond to a 999 call they had received regarding a 19 year old young woman who had fallen down the very steep northern escarpment of Winter Hill, which overlooks the...
by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | General news
On Thursday 24th September 2015, we reported within our website that team members Michael Eddleston, Trainee member Steve James and our President Bob Hutchinson, had journeyed to Wellfield High School, Yewlands Drive, Leyland, to give a presentation on the work of the...
by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | General news
Our Ford Transit Minibus / Ambulance is our only vehicle still kept in open storage, being parked in the courtyard to our Base / HQ at Ladybridge Hall. As such it gets dirtier a lot quicker than our other five vehicles which are all kept in garage accommodation. Due...
by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | Training
This morning our trainee mountain rescue air scenting search dog handler Jess Ellsmore and her trainee air scenting search dog Blitz, carried out some essential search dog training in the Lyons Den and Cartridge Hill areas, fringing Darwen Moor. Assisting Jess and...
by admin | Oct 17, 2015 | General news
Today we ‘loaned’ our Training Officer Alistair Greenough, who works as an Accident and Emergency Nurse full time at Warrington Hospital, to our close friends and colleagues at Cheshire Search and Rescue Team, to assist their on scene ‘medical team’ during their teams...
by admin | Oct 17, 2015 | 2015, Incident
Yesterday, Friday 16th October, our DVSD Search Dog Handler Dave Marsh was placed on standby to provide his specialist search dog assistance to a search operation developing within the South Yorkshire Police region, regarding a missing 27 year old woman, in ...
