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N E W S A R C H I V E

2007
05/05	HERSHAM SCOUTS DONATION "1st Hersham Troop B" are active supporters of The Team. In May 2007 they made a significant donation towards a new Casualty Bag for our stretcher which they themselves donated a significant amount of money towards. Picture of donation handover

2006
05/08	Garage Opening The Chief Constable of North Wales Police arrived to open our new garage. Along with other dignatories, he had a tour round base and listened in on a real rescue that occured in the early afternoon. Read the Chief Constable's Blog

2005
06/11	HOW MUCH TIME? The approximate man hours per year have been added to the incidents page. The figures are a minimum as in many cases the data for duration of rescue or number of people attendig is not available. These figures are also only for callouts where the team was committed to the hill. Standbys are not included.
09/08	Forty Years and still going strong The Team is celebrating its fortieth year. We recently had a day of presentations at Oggi Base for those members who had done either 25 or 40 years service. Here are some pictures
11/06	REUNION 150 current and ex-members and partners gathered at the Tyn-y-Coed in Capel Curig for an evening of reminiscing and the odd drink.
08/06	ON LINE DONATIONS The Team can now accept on-line donations
02/05	SCOUTS VISIT AND DONATION About 20 Members of the 1st Hersham Scout Troop, Walton-On-Thames, Surrey visited Oggi Base on May 2nd to present the Team with a rather large cheque for the purchase of equipment. Here are some pictures

2004
09/11	WISH LIST A 'wish list' page has been added containing items we would like to purchase in the future to improve the service we offer.
28/07	SEARCH ENGINE We finally added a search engine to the site. It is located on the front page
12/07	BBC RADIO WALES The team was involved in parts of the Eye-on-Wales program outlining the hazards of 'Extreme Sports' e.g. Mountain/Sea/Cave
11/07	WEATHER STATION The weather station is finally linked up to the web site
10&11/07	Antur Mynydd The Team attends the Summer Festival in Mynedd Llandegai
27/06	TA Visit A group of TA medics had a reunion at Oggi Base before their next assignment. 22 Sqdn. attended to show them around the aircraft. members of 333 where also present.
07/06	Lost and found Page added for kit found/lost by the team
20/05	Web CAM II The second Oggi Web Cam goes live
07/05	NEW LANDROVER The team takes delivery of its new Landrover
09/04	Web CAM I One of the Oggi Web Cams goes live

2003
25/12	Web SITE The new look web site goes live

2001
07/07	FOOT and MOUTH Snowdonia is almost completely open to the public. Guidelines are still in place so we would be most grateful if they could be respected. The park and ride scheme is still operating for Snowdon but Ogwen is open to all
24/02	New Landrover OVMRO took delivery of a new Landrover as replacement for our previous vehicle. The Landrover was purchased through very generous funding from Safeways and HM Bennetts who ran a promotion selling Welsh Mountain Lamb. The landrover is a customised 130 vehicle that was specially fitted out for use by Frog.
20/01	Training Calendar The training calendar for 2001 is being filled in at present - if you have any events that are suitable to go in to it please e-mail the Training Officer with the dates, name of event, venue and a point of contact.

2000
17/09	Welsh 3000 Challenge Earlier in the year a funding raising event was run and here are the photos and reports from the day. Many thanks to Tim for organising the event and to all of those who took part
23/07	BBC Program Transmission Date The proposed transmission date of the program featuring the team, its members and the the work it does has been set to 23 Aug 2000 at about 10:15pm.
22/06	Annual Report 1999 The Teams Annual Report has now been published and is available in local climbing shops.
25/05	BBC Film News The BBC have taken delivery of the film shot over the last year. A screening date has yet to be decided but it is hoped that this will be during the summer. Several team members have had a preview showing to check accuracy.
04/04	First Aid Issue 4 of the Continuation Training log is now available for download, covering the period 1 June - 30 Sep
31/03	Party Leader Scheme The team is aiming to run another Party Leader Scheme later this year and needs about 6 candidates for it. So if you feel that you can meet the requirements and have loads of enthusiasm then contact Chris Onions. Party Leader Training criteria include: > High degree of operational availability > Willingness to take on some operational responsibility > Willingness to organise team training events > High amount of recent operation experience, typically about 80 rescues/searches over the last four year period.
25/03	Welsh 3000 Challenge 10 June 2000 Additional documentation in PDF format added to the Welsh 3000 challenge pages
12/03	Team assist with photo-shoot for Fire & Rescue Magazine Several team members assisted in shooting photos for Fire and Rescue Magazine, who were spending several days with C Flt 22 Sqn. First aid and technical stretcher work were demonstrated as the photographer clicked away