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Category: News Of The World

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SAMMY STONE – FIRST WINNER OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

23 Jan 202023 Jan 2020
One of the key dangers of the internet for darts fans is that in some cases there is no historical basis for some of the material that appears online about…
News Of The World…

GEORGE ‘PODGE’ ROGERS

20 Sep 201920 Sep 2019
George Rogers played for Durham County on 84 occasions, 50 times for the ‘A’ team and 34 times for the ‘B’, achieving around 50% success rate in both teams, a…
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OLIVER JAMES – WALES’ FIRST NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION

19 Sep 201919 Sep 2019
Despite Wales sending Divisional champions to London for the Grand Finals of the News of the World every year since the competition was restored after the Second World War in…
News Of The World…

RON CHURCH – ‘THE LEANING TOWER OF SHOREDITCH’

18 Sep 201921 Oct 2019
Ron Church, runner-up in the 1973 News of the World individual darts tournament, was a popular London darter, played for London ‘B’ during the 1976/77 season and won the British…
News Of The World…

KIM ‘THE FOX’ BROWN

29 Aug 201928 Jan 2022
Kim Brown Darts legend Kim Brown (b. 30th December 1930) (pictured) died of cancer in the early hours of 29th December 2012 at his home in Knowle, near Bristol surrounded…
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HARRY PERRYMAN – NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION 1951

29 Aug 2019
Harry Perryman (right) being awarded his championship trophy by the popular English comedian Tommy Trinder in 1951 I know, from the number of enquiries I receive that darts fans like…
News Of The World…

STEFAN LORD

21 Aug 201913 Feb 2020
Swedish darts star Stefan Lord is perhaps best remembered by Darts World readers, and all darts fans of a certain age, for his two victories in the News of the…
News Of The World

News Of The World Winners

22 May 201921 Oct 2019
THE NEWS OF THE WORLD INDIVIDUAL DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP THE WINNERS The "News of the World" tournament commenced 1927 and started out originally as a London competition. It then expanded to…
News Of The World

The News Of The World: Individual Darts Championship

22 May 201930 Oct 2019
For many years the News of the World Individual Darts Championship was the one competition that every dart player wanted to win. They say that ‘from little acorns mighty oaks…
Humour…

The Lighter Side Of Darts

22 May 201921 Dec 2020
Whilst recently rummaging through my data files I discovered an article which was originally written in 2000 for Planetdarts (the original name of the Professional Darts Corporation's website) but somehow…

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