by admin | Mar 19, 2013 | General news
This afternoon our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE conducted another of his regular liaison visits from the team to the North West Air Ambulance Helimed 72 at its City Airport Manchester (Barton) base. Garry regularly visits Helimed 72s base at City Airport Manchester,...
by admin | Mar 19, 2013 | General news
On Saturday 16th March members of our valued Support Group were busy at the ASDA Middlebrook store, holding the second collection of this year to date almost solely consisting of Support Group members. With thanks to the following who attended; Team President Bob...
by admin | Mar 17, 2013 | Donations, General news
On Tuesday 8th January this year, the team was involved in a large scale multi agency search centred upon the River Ribble in the Ribchester area of Lancashire, for a missing 72 years old man Mr Keith Smith of Goosnargh near Preston. Sadly our involvement on the day...
by admin | Mar 16, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Today at 12.04hrs we were contacted by NWAS (Manchester) Parkway Emergency Operations Centre regards our assistance being required at an incident on Winter Hill. A 40 years old male mountain biker (From the Whittle Le Woods area) in the company of a colleague mountain...
by admin | Mar 16, 2013 | General news
This morning team members took part in a small scale training exercise with our 3.5 metre semi inflatable SAR Boat at Jumbles Reservoir. Taking part were Team Call Out list members Dave Marsh, with his Trainee Drowned Victim Search Dog Sasha, Paul Chisholm with his...
by admin | Mar 16, 2013 | General news
Today our valued Support Group members were busy at the ASDA Middlebrook store, holding the second collection of this year to date solely consisting of Support Group members. A full report on todays collection will appear here shortly.
by admin | Mar 16, 2013 | Donations, General news
Today we are very pleased to announce the receipt of another kind and thoughtful Happy Easter donation of £50.00 from a valued supporter of the team who wishes to remain anonymous (at least to our readers) This very kind person regularly supports the team in a...
by admin | Mar 15, 2013 | General news
On Monday 22nd October 2012, we reported that we had reached 1.3 million hits on our website, well tonight at some point the counter on our website which registers visits / hits to our website reached and rapidly passed the 1,400,000 figure, an incredibly huge number...
by admin | Mar 14, 2013 | General news
This evening, at the kind invitation of Bob Williams, Acting Chief Executive of NWAS NHS Trust, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was honoured to attend the NWAS NHS Trust Going The Extra Mile ; Staff Awards Ceremony 2013. Held in the Woodlands Suite at Ribby Hall...
by admin | Mar 14, 2013 | General news
This evening at 19.30hrs we welcomed to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ eighteen Explorer Scouts and their two Leaders from Darwen District Explorer Scouts. They were met by Team Call Out list members John Dickinson, Kris Kilshaw, and Paul Copley along with Trainee Team...