by admin | Jan 10, 2013 | General news
This evening team member Paul Chisholm set off for the monthly training meet of SARDA (England) with Bella, as he settles in on the long journey to his hope of becoming an Air Scenting Search dog Handler. This weekend, the training starting tomorrow morning, Friday...
by admin | Jan 10, 2013 | General news
We reported yesterday that our SARDA Dog Handler Steve Nelson, with his specialist Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog, Boris, had been requested by North Yorkshire Police to assist them with a missing person search enquiry today in York. Unfortunately due to illness...
by admin | Jan 9, 2013 | General news
Further to a recent telephone conversation and email correspondence between our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and GMP Acting Sgt Jane Wilcock, this evening Jane visited our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to discuss the possibility of the team providing some MRT awareness...
by admin | Jan 9, 2013 | General news
Today our Trailing Dog Handler Steve Nelson was contacted by North Yorkshire Police to lend his specialist search assistance with his Search Dog Boris, to a continuing search operation in York for a vulnerable missing person. As such he has been requested to attend a...
by admin | Jan 9, 2013 | General news
This evening we reached the amazing total of 800 followers on our team Twitter feed. We post regular news on happenings within the team and incident deployments via Twitter, with a great many links to our ‘news’ pages within this website. Many thanks to...
by admin | Jan 8, 2013 | 2013, Incident
This very wet morning at 09.35hrs we were paged by Lancashire Constabulary, which included a SARCALL alert, to assist with the continuation of a multi agency search for a missing 72 years old male, centred upon the River Ribble in the vicinity of Ribchester,...
by admin | Jan 8, 2013 | General news
Every year Lancashire Constabulary kindly offer to the Mountain Rescue Teams operating in Lancashire, places on their week long Missing Persons Search Manager Course. This morning very experienced Bolton MRT Team Call Out list members Steve Fletcher and Chris...
by admin | Jan 8, 2013 | Donations, General news
Today we received a wonderful donation of £165.50p from our valued friends and supporters jointly at the St Mary’s Ramblers, Horwich, and University of the Third Age (U3A) Chorley Local Group, Medium Walking Group. In a letter to our Team Leader Garry...
by admin | Jan 8, 2013 | Donations, General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received a kind letter from the Bolton & District Butchers Guardian & Benevolent Association, inviting the team to attend their Annual Dinner Dance due to be held on Saturday 26th January 2013, at Rivington Hall Barn....
by admin | Jan 7, 2013 | General news
It’s only seven days into the New Year and with eleven incidents attended, we have already contributed an amazing 204 person hours (8.5 person days) on operational incidents on 2013 so far. (Please also see a similar themed report we made just before the end of...