An eight-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after falling while running in the Lake District.

The youngster was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle with "severe" head injuries.

The Great North Air Ambulance's Pride of Cumbria helicopter was dispatched around 9.45am yesterday to Seatoller, near Borrowdale.

The air medics were called out after the boy, from Arnside in south Cumbria, started to become unwell following the incident.

A GNAAS spokesman said: "On arrival on scene the aircrew doctor and paramedic team assessed and treated the young boy for his injuries before flying him to hospital in Newcastle."

Later that day the Pride of Cumbria was called into action again, this time going to rescue a cyclist who'd fallen off his bike during a time trial at Thanet Well, near Greystoke, Penrith.

The man, who is from Kirkbride, near Wigton and in his fifties, was taken to the RVI with "serious" head and shoulder injuries. The crash happened about 2.20pm.