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Mountain rescue refuse a call-out?

By Judy Whiteside / July 4, 2018 /

Surely not? Well, indeed they would. But under what circumstances? Much kerfuffle below the line last week, when rescuers in Scotland refused to go to the aid of a man who called in ‘wet’. Or ‘soaked’, according to another report. In a matter of moments, media-stoked outrage at the apparently hard-nosed reaction of mountain rescuers…

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Keswick MRT Hanging Rock © Rob Grange/KMRT

Welcome to our blog!

By Judy Whiteside / June 21, 2018 /

Good to see you here. This is our first ever post. We’re a little late to the blogging party but here we are. At last. We’ve even brought flapjack. And apples. So now all we have to do is entertain you, occasionally amuse and maybe, every once in a while, tell you something you didn’t…

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