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Wainwright calendar sales will boost mountain rescue funds

Sales of a calendar produced by fans of the Lakeland guidebook author Alfred Wainwright have so far raised more than £4,000 for mountain rescue.

10 November 2010

Wainwright calendar cash will go to mountain rescue

Mountain rescuers will benefit from this year’s sales of a Calendar produced by fans of the late Alfred Wainwright.

24 July 2010

Rescuers' champion fails in bid for deputy leadership

Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has failed in his bid for the deputy leadership of his party. The member for Westmorland and Lonsdale has been instrumental ...

10 June 2010

Rescue crews chalk up record year for callouts

Rescuers gathered this morning to celebrate a record-breaking year. Crews from the Royal Navy’s search and rescue helicopter base at HMS Gannet h...

11 March 2010

Goodbye to Sea Kings as rescue helicopters go private

The familiar yellow ‘paraffin budgies’ that have plucked thousands of stricken climbers and walkers from Britain’s mountains are set to disappear under a plan to privatise the country’s search and rescue helicopters.

09 February 2010

William to start mountain rescue helicopter training

Prince William’s career as a search and rescue pilot took a step forward this week after he completed his advanced helicopter training course.

12 December 2009

Charles will join walkers' pinup Julia at lights turn-on

Walkers’ pinup Julia Bradbury will get a royal boost when she switches on Keswick’s Christmas lights on Friday.

26 November 2009

Water-rescue training pays off for mountain teams

Training for water rescues paid dividends over the weekend for one of the Lake District’s mountain rescue teams.

23 November 2009

Get into winter gear as the nights draw in

Those balmy June days are becoming a distant memory and this weekend Britain’s summer comes to an official end.

23 October 2009

Public tells Treasury: make walkers pay for rescue

The coalition Government’s first major exercise in crowdsourcing has produced a plethora of calls to make mountaineers, climbers and hillwalkers pay for rescue.

18 August 2010

Labour bid to stop VAT hike for mountain rescuers

Opposition front-benchers have launched a bit to stop mountain rescue teams paying the increased VAT rate announced by the Coalition Government in George Osborne’s emergency budget last month.

10 July 2010

Lakes rescuers' signs will help lost night walkers

Lakeland mountain rescuers are shedding a little light on the fells to help lost walkers. In a sign of the times, members of the Langdale and Amble...

31 March 2010

Give us the Cowell treatment, say mountain rescuers

Stewart Hulse has tasted stardom. He used to kick a ball around for Bury FC in the days when players ‘got paid 8s and 6d’ and was also handy with ...

11 February 2010

Bonington and Scott lecture will help Cumbrian mountain rescuers

Two of Britain’s best known mountaineers will reunite to give a one-off lecture to help the volunteer teams that helped rescue people during last year’s floods in Cumbria.

02 January 2010

Mountain teams face extra costs for gear damaged in flood rescues

The Lake District’s mountain rescue teams, praised by Prince Charles last Friday for their response during the unprecedented Cumbrian floods, face major costs to replace gear and vehicles damaged while rescuing victims of the deluge.

01 December 2009