A Bradford motorbiker was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries when he was thrown from his machine on a quiet country road.

The 60-year-old, from Queensbury, skidded his white Honda motorbike negotiating a bend on a wet road between Great Langton and Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

He suffered broken ribs and massive internal bleeding following the accident at 12.20pm on Sunday.

He was given emergency treatment at the scene by an air ambulance doctor.

Police closed off the road for the doctor and an ambulance paramedic team to treat the man at the roadside. He was then airlifted to the Speciality Treatment Unit at James Cook University Hospital ten minutes away in Middlesbrough.

See Tuesday's T&A for the full story