by admin | Sep 23, 2015 | Donations
On Sunday 17th May 2015 we reported within the ‘News’ section of our website, that on Saturday 16th May 2015, young Chloe Southworth and her mum Karen Southworth called briefly at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, meeting team member and former Team Chairman Ken Oakes,... by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | General news
Whilst still at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ today following his earlier meeting, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE had an unexpected surprise visit from valued team friend and supporter Detective Constable Jane Wilcock of GMP. Jane was passing our Base / HQ at the... by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | General news
Today at 11am, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ with Greg Bleakley, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and Health, at the School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Bolton, Deane Road. Greg approached the team recently,... by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | 2015, Incident
Mid this morning our Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Handler Steve Nelson was contacted by Police to lend his specialist search dog assistance to an on going Police enquiry regarding a missing person. Steve with his Trailing Search Dog Boris was on route to Barnoldswick... by admin | Sep 21, 2015 | General news
Our Water Dog Handler Dave Marsh, in his capacity as NSARDA Secretary, had a major role to play in organising this important conference, from which regular tweets kept all interested in the events of each day. There follows Dave’s report on this conference; This... by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | General news
Today at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, a small number of team members undertook an upgrade and replenishment of almost the entire contents of all six of our comprehensively equipped Trauma Sacs – carried on each of our six Team vehicles. Also included within this... by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | Training
Today at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, our Training Officer Alistair Greenough, who in full time employment is an Accident and Emergency Nurse, gave a small number of team members an overview of drugs in use within mountain rescue, and specifically the Bolton MRT.... by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | Training
Commencing yesterday and all day today, long serving and very experienced team member Ged Clarke, attended the second weekend of a two part / two weekend specialist training course arranged by our national body, Mountain Rescue England and Wales. The first weekend... by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | General news
This afternoon, the third day of the NSARDA (National Search and Rescue Dog Association) Conference ended at Lancashire Constabulary Force Headquarters at Hutton, Lancashire. Our DVSD Dog Handler Dave Marsh, in his capacity as NSARDA Secretary, had a major role to... by admin | Sep 19, 2015 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
Today from circa 10.30hrs until 15.30hrs, the team attended Darwen Fire Station Open Day, with sunny warm weather prevailing throughout the day. Present at the Open Day was the based Fire Appliances and the joint based NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Ambulance and crew,...