by admin | Mar 17, 2014 | Donations, General news
The team is extremely thankful to acknowledge the generous support once again of the North Turton Parish Council. We are very pleased today to announce an extremely generous £200.00 donation from the North Turton Parish Council via Glenys Syddall, Clerk to North... by admin | Mar 17, 2014 | Donations, General news
We are extremely pleased to announce today the receipt of a very generous £157.43p from our dear friends and supporters at Darwen Dashers Running Club, following our provision of standby rescue cover for their ‘Mr Sparkles Dark’ Un’ Fell race of Friday evening 21st... by admin | Mar 17, 2014 | General news
Readers of our ‘Guestbook’ pages may have noticed a new recent entry from former Bolton MRT Call Out list m,ember Andy Kench, an RSPCA Inspector and member of the RSPCA National Flood Response Team, copied here: I was training the new RSPCA rope team up at Anglezarke... by admin | Mar 17, 2014 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce today a kind and very generous donation of £136.00 from our dear friends at Burnden Road Runners. In a letter addressed to our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, Burnden Road Runners explained: “Dear Mr Rhodes. We have great pleasure in... by admin | Mar 17, 2014 | Donations, General news
On Saturday 8th March 2014, we provided standby rescue cover for the West Lancashire Group of the LDWA ‘Anglezarke Amble’ event (Please see website ‘News’ report dated the same) We are very pleased to announce today the receipt of a generous and kind £200.00 donation... by admin | Mar 16, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 15.57hrs this afternoon we were paged by Greater Manchester Police regards the team’s assistance with a developing search for a missing man in circumstances giving Police cause for concern for his welfare. The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes... by admin | Mar 16, 2014 | General news
We are sad to report that team callout list member Ana Toole, who joined the team on 23rd April 2009 has retired from the team operational callout membership due to other commitments. Ana who works at Royal Bolton Hospital as a Physiotherapist brought a keen sense of... by admin | Mar 16, 2014 | General news
On Monday evening 3rd March we welcomed to our Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ, Bolton East Explorer Scouts, who were met by team members Martin Battersby, Nigel Booth (Equipment Officer Medical), Paul Copley, John Dickinson and Naomi Horan. Judging by the kind comments made... by admin | Mar 16, 2014 | General news
Apologies for not keeping our readers up to date, we present below a short report of the previous three Wednesday evening exercises. Wednesday 26th February 28 Team Callout List members and Support Group member Iain Clarkson all took part in a search and rescue... by admin | Mar 9, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 13:56 today the team was paged by North West Ambulance Service (Lancashire) to attend an incident in the Chapeltown, Turton area of Bolton. A 36 year old male had taken a turn for the worse when he fell from a rope swing, sustaining a suspected fracture of his...