Great North Air Ambulance Service's (GNAAS) critical care teams responded to 15 emergencies across the North East and Cumbria over the weekend.

The teams were dispatched five times in helicopters and ten times in rapid response vehicles.

Among the incidents, on February 10, a team was called to a report of a fall in Darlington at 5.45pm.

They were on the scene by 6pm, working in cooperation with North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) to treat a patient before returning to their base.

A day later, on February 11, the critical care team responded to a road traffic collision on Wellington Street, Stockton, at 1.12am.

A doctor and paramedic arrived on scene at 1.33am.

A GNAAS spokesman said: "Our team worked alongside the North East Ambulance Service to assess and treat a patient and the patient was taken to hospital by the North East Ambulance Service road crew, accompanied by our team."