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Search continues for Lakes hillwalker missing overnight
A major search is underway for a walker missing on a Lake District fell. Three mountain rescue teams have been joined by an RAF Sea King helicopter...
Body found by river-search rescuers
A man’s body has been found by rescuers searching the River Spey after an angler was reported to have been swept away this morning.
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.
Major search for man missing in Highland river
Mountain rescue team members have joined a search on the River Spey for a man missing after being swept away.
Rescuers' second callout in five days to scrambling site
A mountain rescue team was called to a gill-scrambling site for the second time in five days after a man injured himself.
New off-road ambulance will help mountain rescuers
A mountain rescue team has taken delivery of a new all-terrain ambulance that will help reach casualties in remote locations.
Cash and gear on offer for winning adventurers
Fancy being the next Sir Chris Bonington? Berghaus, the company the Everest summiteer chairs, is offering cash and gear to adventurers who are chos...
Rescuers will join major Highlands hunt for woman's body
A major search involving four mountain rescue teams will take place this weekend to try to find the body of a woman believed to have been murdered.
'Breakaway' mountain council celebrates 40 years
In 1970, as the Scottish National Party rode a wave of popularity following Winnie Ewing’s groundbreaking Hamilton by-election win three years earlier, mountaineers north of the border struck a blow for independence too.
Highlands gold company finds another source after park refusal
The Australian company which has been refused permission to reopen a gold mine in the Scottish Highlands said it may have found another source of the precious metal nearby.
Uncle guides rescuers to injured boy by sound of helicopter
Rescuers were guided by flares and the sound of a helicopter to an injured boy on a remote Orkney cliff.
Honister zip-wire hearing put back
The date to consider proposals for the building of a zip-wire on a Lake District mountain has been put back.
Mountain rescue helicopter crew features on TV tonight
The crew of Britain’s busiest search and rescue helicopter base will feature on television tonight.
Mountain rescuers fail to find Suzanne's body
The major search involving five mountain rescue teams for the body of a woman believed to have been murdered ended today without success.
Slumdog director's film of amputee climber will close festival
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle’s film about the American climber who cut off his own arm to escape an isolated canyon in Utah will be the closing film of this year’s London Film Festival.
Success for beaver trial as babies make appearance
Baby beavers have been spotted in a remote Scottish forest where a trial breeding programme is taking place.
Rescuers treat injured walker and scrambler
Rescuers were called into action to two separate incidents within half an hour yesterday. Members of Coniston Mountain Rescue Team first went to ai...
Tea-towels get the boot as Trust shop goes outdoors
The National Trust is dipping a boot in the world of outdoors retailing with the opening of its first ‘tea-towel-free’ shop.
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