by admin | Oct 14, 2012 | General news
For the eighth year running, starting on Friday evening 11th October and running through to the late afternoon of Sunday 14th October, the Team organised and took part in a fully residential Joint Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue based at the excellent facilities...
by admin | Oct 11, 2012 | General news
This morning our Team Life Vice President and very long serving team member Tony McNally visited St Veronica’s Catholic Primary School in Helmshore, to show his young grandson who is a pupil at the school, what Grand Dad gets up to in the Bolton MRT. Tony took...
by admin | Oct 11, 2012 | General news
Late this morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE carried out another of his regular liaison visits on behalf of the team, to the North West Air Ambulance at City Airport Manchester (Barton) where Helimed 72 is based. Garry met with one of the new pilots and two of...
by admin | Oct 10, 2012 | General news
The following report was placed on the website of our national organisation; Mountain Rescue England and Wales, on the evening of Sunday 7th October, with regards to the massive search operation conducted by Mountain and Cave Rescue teams and SARDA for April Jones,...
by admin | Oct 9, 2012 | General news
Regards our October 2012 potential new team member recruitment intake, for persons interested in joining the operational team membership, we can report that to date we have now received nineteen applications of interest via our online application form, with (so far)...
by admin | Oct 9, 2012 | General news
Last week we commenced our our MREW Mountain Rescue Casualty Care Course. This course developed over a great many years is the ‘benchmark’ casualty care course undertaken by those in mountain rescue within England and Wales. The multi session long syllabus...