by admin | Jan 1, 2013 | General news
We are very pleased to announce our December month end 2012 collection box figures, with £65.50p collected, against £1,144.94p for December 2011. Our end of year 2012 collection box income figure is a marvellous £3,262.74p, against £5,205.07p...
by admin | Dec 31, 2012 | General news
Late this evening whilst providing assistance to NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) – please see previous website report below, the team responded to two incidents, the first at 22.50hrs and the second at 23.23hrs, both at residential properties in the Farnworth...
by admin | Dec 31, 2012 | General news
This evening as with all previous New Year Eve’s (For fifteen years now, commencing on 31st December 1998) the team has had all four of it’s Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances and its Minibus Ambulance available, at the disposal of NWAS (Greater...
by admin | Dec 30, 2012 | General news
Late this afternoon, as some team members returned from giving our vehicles a run out in the team area, we once again welcomed Danni Burgess and Team Training Officer Graham Munns, both from NEWSAR, to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ. Both were visiting the Manchester...
by admin | Dec 30, 2012 | General news
We have recently looked at our incident statistics for 2012 and though the following figures can only ever be an average representation of the true time the Bolton MRT has spent on operational incidents, the following figures may be of interest to our readers…...
by admin | Dec 30, 2012 | General news
Congratulations to Julian Carradice, aged 52 of Gosforth, Cumbria, a former team member of Wasdale MRT (1979 to February 2012) and Team Leader of Wasdale MRT 1999 to 2010, who has been appointed a Member of the British Empire “For Services to Wasdale Mountain...
by admin | Dec 28, 2012 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind festive donation of £60.00 from Age Concern 50+ Ramble Club (Bolton) Mrs Margaret Hogg, Treasurer of Age Concern 50+ Ramble Club (Bolton) explained in a note with their very thoughtful donation; “This is a donation from Age...
by admin | Dec 27, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 13.34hrs this afternoon, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by Andy Simpson, the Deputy Team Leader of Rossendale and Pendle MRT, with information of a call out the RPMRT were responding to in the Tottington area, having been contacted at circa...
by admin | Dec 27, 2012 | General news
Following the new carpeting of our entrance stairwell kindly undertaken by Phil Lomax and Brian Winstanley of Milliken Industrials Limited, Beech Hill, Wigan, this morning and early afternoon (See report below) we now have even further excellent news of the free and...
by admin | Dec 27, 2012 | General news
All who know the team and particularly those who have visited our excellent Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ premises, kindly provided by NWAS (Manchester), know we take considerable pride in the appearance of our Base / HQ, its cleanliness, maintenance and general tidiness....