04 January 2015
Another milestone, on 4th January 2015, 33 months after we began we have successfully completed 10,000 runs, over 7,000 in the last 12 months alone.
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To all our Members, your Families and Friends, to all our Hospital’s Staff and Families, and to all Blood Bike Groups around the United Kingdom and Ireland, we wish you all a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year.
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31 December 2014
As a result of the Christmas Bash put on by Shorrocks Motorcycles at the New Hall Tavern, where Carl Fogarty joined us, and the auction and raffle, Shorrocks have given us £1,100.
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29 December 2014
Saturday 27th December 2014, Shorrocks Motorcycles held a charity bash at the New Hall Tavern at Samlesbury to raise money for North West Blood Bikes Lancs & Lakes. The bash was a tremendous success, with the pub being so full you had to go outside to breath. Of course one reason was because Carl Fogarty promised he would turn up, and sure enough he did.
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24 December 2014
To all our volunteers, their families, friends and supporters of NWBB Lancs & Lakes, to all Blood Bike Groups around the Country including NABB and to all the staff at all the Hospitals in Lancashire and the Lake District, have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year.
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Tuesday 9th December 2014, our Chairman received a request from the Pathology Department at Royal Preston Hospital to transport an urgent blood sample to Cardiff for urgent analysis of a specialist test.
Time was critical and transporting the sample by taxi would have taken significantly longer than using a motorbike and would have incurred significant costs.
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03 December 2014
From Saturday 22nd November through to 30th November the Motorcycle Live Show was on at the NEC in Birmingham and NABB (Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes) had a stand there. The stand was manned every day by members from many groups, including ours.
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16 November 2014
22:15 hrs on Friday evening, 14th November 2014, and the Police call for our help. There had been a large chemical incident at Royal Preston Hospital in the Path Lab and it had to close meaning that all samples, blood, etc., could not be analysed or distributed at/from the main hospital in the centre of Lancashire. All analysis of samples had to go to other hospitals, mainly the sister hospital at Chorley but further afield too.
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12 November 2014
Friday and Saturday 7th & 8th November 2014 several North West Blood Bikes Lancs & Lakes, on liveried bikes, assisted the Rickshaw Challenge from the start at Salford Media City to Bolton, over Belmont (a long up-hill for the children peddling) and on to Blackpool on Friday. On Saturday they went from Blackpool to Liverpool. One of the riders< Carl, was even wearing a Pudsey outfit over his bike gear.
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05 November 2014
NWBB Lancs and Lakes have just bought their new Triumph Trophy, from Youles motorcycles of Blackburn. Beautiful bike and hopefully will last us for years helping us to help the hospitals.
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