A teenager was airlifted to hospital with serious head injuries after he came off his mountain bike in a remote area of Cumbria.

The Great North Air Ambulance's (GNAAS) Pride of Cumbria helicopter was dispatched to Alston this afternoon around 4.45pm to rescue a 15-year-old boy.

After the boy, who is from the north east, came off his bike he suffered head and facial injuries.

An air ambulance spokesman said: "He was treated at scene by the GNAAS trauma team and North West Ambulance Service paramedics and assisted by Penrith Mountain Rescue Team before being flown to Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle ."

His condition on arrival was said to be stable.

Earliern the day the GNAAS crew were called out to Kirkby Stephen to help a woman, believed to be in her sixties, after she was found collapsed and suffering from head injuries.

Her injuries were said to be life-threatening and she was flown to the major trauma centre at James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough.