by admin | Dec 27, 2012 | General news
We currently have Forty One Call Out List members, one Trainee Call Out list member, three ‘Reserve Call Out list members, ten Probationary Team members, and thirteen Support Group members. We currently have four Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicles,...
by admin | Dec 26, 2012 | General news
Each year the Holcombe Hunt has met in Rivington for its traditional Boxing Day Hunt, which now also attracts a great many other horse riders, their followers and members of the public, alongside the more usual visitors to the area. The team has also traditionally...
by admin | Dec 26, 2012 | General news
Today, as this time last year, at the very kind long standing invitation of the Go Outdoors, Wigan, Store Manager John Harold (A former Bolton MRT call out list member) we were invited to hold a team collection alongside the stores Boxing Day Sale Event. Taking with...
by admin | Dec 25, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At circa 02.00hrs in the very early hours of this Christmas Day morning, our team Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson (A member of SARDA Wales) and his specialist Trailing Search Dog Boris, were called out by SARDA (Wales) to assist in a search for a missing 43 year old...
by admin | Dec 24, 2012 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce today the receipt of a kind and thoughtful festive £25.00 donation from our dear friend Roma Clough. On the 18th January 2009, the Team went to the aid of Mrs Roma Clough, who had sustained a serious leg injury after falling in a...
by admin | Dec 24, 2012 | General news
The whole team membership would like to extend its Christmas Best Wishes to all our valued readers of our website and to our 739 (As we write this) ‘Twitter’ followers. To all our many valued and appreciated friends and supporters, we thank you all for...
by admin | Dec 23, 2012 | General news
Jenny Fearn, the Secretary of the Salvation Army, Bolton, recently invited the team to send a representative to their Annual Carol Service, to say a few words about the work of the team , and to accept the proceeds of their Carol Service charitable collection, which...
by admin | Dec 23, 2012 | Donations, General news
On Friday 16th November 2012, we were involved, under the direction of Rossendale and Pendle MRT, in a multi team large scale search operation to try and locate a missing man, 70 years old John David Rayton, in the Barnoldswick / Gisburn area of Lancashire. On...
by admin | Dec 22, 2012 | General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, alongside such organisations as Anglia TV News, BBC News, and the RAF, was copied in to the ‘Year End Report’ made by Paul Chamberlain, Chairman of Norfolk Lowland Search and Rescue Team. As our regular readers will...
by admin | Dec 21, 2012 | Donations, General news
This evening our Team Equipment Officer (Medical) Naomi Horan was honoured to be invited to attend the Christmas evening meal of the Masonic Chapter, St Georges Holy Royal Arch Chapter No 1723. Naomi at the meal accepted on the teams behalf a very kind and thoughtful...