by admin | Apr 22, 2009 | 2009, Incident
With team members at our Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ this evening for our routine Wednesday evening training, our Team Leader who was present at our Base/HQ received a direct mobile phone call from NWAS (Greater Manchester) Control at 20:18 requesting the team’s...
by admin | Feb 8, 2009 | 2009, Incident
During the concluding part of our involvement with providing standby rescue cover on the Winter Hill Fell Race, whilst most of the teams resources were at the Lower House car park area in Rivington, we were approached by a member of a mountain biking party to say his...
by admin | Jan 17, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 11.38hrs this morning we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre regards the report of an injured mountain biker in the Georges Lane area on the edge of the moors overlooking Horwich. Having established more details on the location where this...
by admin | Oct 18, 2008 | 2008, Incident
This afternoon during the Joint Foundation Course as participants, including our team members, were assembling for the main outdoor exercise element in the Noon Hill Gully area of Rivington, we became aware of a developing incident in the Rivington area. NWAS...
by admin | Oct 12, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Three very experienced mountain bikers were enjoying the delights of mountain biking in the Rivington area today, when descending from the moorland landmark summit of Rivington Pike, one of the group, a 33 year old female mountain biker from the Clitheroe area,...