by admin | Oct 24, 2012 | General news
On Sunday 7th October 2012, the team took part in a major exercise organised by GMFRS on the River Irwell in Salford (Please see illustrated website report dated the same) Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received the following kind letter from GMFRS Borough... by admin | Oct 23, 2012 | General news
Long serving team member Diane Blakeley plays rounders as part of the Bolton Sports Federation Rounders League. Between 1983 and 2010 the league has raised £96,134.72 for charity which is a fantastic sum of money. In November 2010, Diane decided to nominate... by admin | Oct 22, 2012 | General news
On Friday 20th July 2012, we reported that on May 26th 2012, Mrs Barbara Leigh very sadly suddenly passed away at the age of 74 years at her home address. The late Mrs Barbara Leigh was the mother of former team member and ex Deputy Team Leader Ian... by admin | Oct 22, 2012 | General news
Well at some point today, the counter on our website which registers visits / hits to our website reached and rapidly passed the 1,300,000 figure, a huge number of visits / hits since our website first went live way back on 1st October 2001. Today ended with the... by admin | Oct 22, 2012 | General news
Our great supporters, Jean Mulvaney and her friends, once again organised a charity line dancing evening, on Friday 19th October 2012, which started at 7.30pm, at St Mary’s Church Parish Centre, Richmond Street, Horwich. Alongside the dancing, there was a... by admin | Oct 21, 2012 | General news
Regular readers of our website will realise that our ‘Recruiting Now’ header from our ‘Home Page’ has now been taken down, with recruitment now closed for our 2012 membership intake. All on line applications made to date remain valid and will... by admin | Oct 20, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 01.13hrs in the very early hours of this morning, the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre, to respond to the report of an injured male in a ravine in the Shevington area of Standish, Wigan. Slightly earlier an NWAS (Manchester) Emergency... by admin | Oct 19, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 13.03hrs this afternoon, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by Rossendale and Pendle MRT Trainee Team member Jake Clark, who in turn had been contacted by a male colleague of his, who in the company of a female colleague (To our readers-we hope... by admin | Oct 18, 2012 | General news
Yet again we are very pleased to announce today the receipt via the Charities Aid Foundation, our online donation portal, of yet another generous and much appreciated donation of £30.00 from Team friend and very appreciated supporter, Mr John Thornley of... by admin | Oct 18, 2012 | General news
We are currently advertising for new members, with the first of our (Three part) potential new member intake / recruitment sessions for 2012 starting next week on the evening of Thursday 25th October 2012. Please note our on-line potential member initial application...