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April 27th, 2012

Schoolchildren help with team membership recruitment

Children from St Bedes Catholic Primary School in Kimberworth, Rotherham, were eager to show off their talents when asked to design a new Operational Member recruitment poster for the team.  Teacher, Mrs Moffatt, set the children a competition following a lesson with the topic of “self …

April 22nd, 2012

Pictures tell the story

After a great many years service the team’s information panels, which accompany us at fund raising events to help explain the work we do, needed refreshing. Producing something new is always more effort than you imagine, but one doughty team member volunteered to take on the challenge.

Luckily help was at hand in the …

April 15th, 2012

Hello helicopter!

Everyone loves a SeaKing, don’t they? Distinctive, powerful, noisy, and very, very capable.

We don’t see as much of them in the Peak District these days (the various air ambulance services are a more common sight), so it’s a treat to get the …

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Recent Call Outs

Windgather Rocks…

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team together with the East Midlands Ambulance Service were called to Windgather Rocks, near Kettleshume on Wednesday afternoon.

The casualty, a 21 year …

Monsal Trail, nr…

A Buxton Team member was walking the Monsal Trail with his family on Sunday when they came across an injured cyclist. The incident was reported …

Winnats Pass

A Buxton and Edale snatch squad was called to Speedwell Cavern, Castleton.

A 12 year old boy from Salford, part of a larger group of young …


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