With the easing of Foot and Mouth restrictions on our moorland patch, our two Search Dog Teams have been able to recommence Thursday evening and Saturday morning training. Dogs Blue and Chi, along with their handlers Paul Baxendale and Dave Marsh would welcome and new ’bodies’ (exercise casualties) to assist them in their valuable and essential training.

Our Ceilidh was an outstanding success, organised by team members Alison and Geoff Yates, a bonus was the £315.00 profit raised for the team.

Our equipment officer in charge of stretchers and rope rescue gear, John Carlin, went off to Canada on a years environmental studies programme – tagging hibernating bears.