A CYCLIST has been air lifted to hospital after falling from her mountain bike at a North-East tourist spot.
The woman suffered head, face and arm injuries when she fell from her bike at Hamsterley Forest, in County Durham, at around lunchtime.
An ambulance crew were called to the forst and requested the assistance of the Great North Air Ambulance.
An air ambulance doctor treated her at the scene before she was flown in the Guardian of the North helicopter to the regional trauma centre at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, in Newcastle, in just eight minutes.
Her condition has been described as stable but her injuries are severe.
The woman is thought to be in her 40s and from Buxton, in Derbyshire.
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