by admin | Mar 9, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 11:43 today, team member and search dog handler Steve Nelson was contacted by SARDA Wales as part of an ongoing enquiry by North Wales Police, as a result of concern regarding a missing person from Greater Manchester. Steve, along with navigator Elaine Gilliland...
by admin | Mar 9, 2014 | General news
Today the team was very pleased to have been associated once again with the second annual Bolton Hill Marathon event, this year spread over two days, with a marathons held on Saturday and another one, following the same route, this Sunday. Organised by Phil Eccleston...
by admin | Mar 8, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 12:43 today the team was paged by the North West Ambulance Service (Air Desk) with the report of an incident on the slopes of Rivington Pike. A male mountain biker had been riding on the bridleway which runs on the south side of the Pike and had sustained an...
by admin | Mar 6, 2014 | General news
At the kind invitation of Brenda Nixon, Co-Ordinator for The Bolton West Stroke Group, our Team President, Bob Hutchinson, went along in our BM4 Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance to Horwich Resource Centre, Beaumont Road, Horwich to meet the members and tell them a...
by admin | Mar 6, 2014 | General news
Today team member Steve Fletcher attended a meeting of the Greater Manchester Local Resilience Forum Telecomms sub-group, which was hosted at Greater Manchester Police’s headquarters at Harpurhey, Manchester. The group has recently been re-formed to discuss...
by admin | Mar 5, 2014 | General news
We are pleased to announce our income from collecting tins for February 2014 totals £123.51 (compared to £131.91 for February 2013) bringing the total so far for 2014 to £379.73 (£298.10 in 2013) with 122 registered sites. We are grateful to...
by admin | Mar 5, 2014 | General news
Saturday will see our marvellous Support Group once again raising funds for the Team with a charity collection at Sainsburys Savacentre, Trinity Way, Bolton, with eight of the Support Group members operating a rota from 10:00 to 18:00hrs. Please come along and say...
by admin | Mar 4, 2014 | 2014, Incident
This evening, search dog handler Steve Nelson, navigator Elaine Gilliland and Search Dog Boris are journeying to York at the request of North Yorkshire Police, in the search for a missing 22 year old male. Ben Clarkson has not been seen since 03:30AM on Sunday March...
by admin | Mar 4, 2014 | 2014, Incident
In the early hours of this morning, Bolton MRT team member Steve Nelson and navigator Elaine Gilliland were called with a request to utilise Search Dog Boris in the search for a missing female. Steve, Elaine and Boris journeyed to Accrington where they met up with two...
by admin | Feb 28, 2014 | General news
This evening at the Mumbai Indian Restaurant on Chorley New Road, Horwich, fifteen Team call Out list members and Support Group members Gillian Gregory, Iain Clarkson and Lee Grice, together enjoyed the pleasures of a Team Social Evening. Our next such ‘outing’ is...