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BBC News
17-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Dobey beats Bunting for Rotterdam triumph
Chris Dobey won his first Premier League night of 2025 with a 6-2 win over Stephen Bunting on an evening of shocks in all-English final was one few would have predicted, featuring the bottom two going into night was in his first final since a 6-1 opening-night loss to Luke Humphries, having overcome Nathan Aspinall 6-2 in the Northumberland-born player, 34, surged into a 5-1 lead against Bunting and sealed an impressive success with an average of 101.84 for his second career Premier League nightly sixth in the table, is now only three points off the four play-off places. Just five points separate Aspinall in third and seventh-placed Rob edged two deciders to reach the final as he defeated Dutchman Michael van Gerwen and world champion Luke breezy conditions at the Ahoy Arena, Premier League champion Littler edged Rob Cross 6-5 in the quarter-finals, despite his opponent's 110 18-year-old – leading the league and seeking a record fifth nightly win of the year - opted for heavier darts, up three grams to 26g, in a bid to keep his arrows on he looked set for another last-leg win after fighting back from 5-2 down against Bunting, but missed double nine on a 138 checkout. 'Darts were blowing everywhere' - Price Several players mentioned a breeze on stage in Rotterdam and Gerwyn Price was not happy after his 6-3 defeat by Aspinall in the last warned he had a shoulder injury beforehand, but there was no sign of discomfort as he saw off his Welsh said afterwards on Instagram: "This week was pointless and we move on to next week. The darts were blowing everywhere."Hopefully we will stop coming here and look for alternative venues. If you think it's the same for both players you are as daft as you look."Cross was on a five-match losing run against Littler, but looked to be on course to seal the decider before his opponent nailed a 145 2018 world champion outscored Littler on the averages by 110.15 to 108.56, but the teenager prevailed hero Van Gerwen went down 6-5 to Bunting to disappoint the Dutch seven-time Premier League champion remains outside the play-off places, having only progressed to a solitary nightly final across the opening 10 produced arguably his best performance of the campaign so far as he stunned an out-of-sorts Humphries with a 6-3 success, where he led 6-0 on 180s. Premier League Darts night 11 results FinalChris Dobey 6-2 Stephen BuntingSemi-finalsChris Dobey 6-2 Nathan AspinallStephen Bunting 6-5 Luke LittlerQuarter-finalsChris Dobey 6-3 Luke HumphriesGerwyn Price 3-6 Nathan AspinallStephen Bunting 6-5 Michael van GerwenLuke Littler 6-5 Rob Cross Premier League Darts format and points system Premier League Darts is played across 16 initial weeks in the league stage with quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final each of the eight players is guaranteed to face the other seven in the quarter-finals in weeks one to seven and 9-15, with week eight and week 16 fixtures done off the table. It means we will get fourth v fifth in Sheffield on the final league-stage night, with the play-off spots potentially on the earn two points per quarter-final win, an additional point if they win their semi-final and five for winning the top four players after the group stage progress to the play-off night at London's O2 Arena on 23 May, with first facing fourth and second against third in a best-of-19-leg match. The final, which is the best of 21 legs, players are level on points after the 16 weeks then places are decided by nights won and then matches won. Premier League Darts night 12 order of play Thursday, 24 April - LiverpoolLuke Humphries v Nathan AspinallMichael van Gerwen v Luke LittlerRob Cross v Stephen BuntingGerwyn Price v Chris Dobey More to follow.
BBC News
06-04-2025
- Science
- BBC News
Stephenson Euston statue to go on show at Shildon museum in County Durham
A Grade II listed statue of railway pioneer Robert Stephenson is to go on show at a museum. The bronze 8ft 10in (2.7m) statue of the Northumberland-born engineer will be unveiled at the Locomotion museum in Shildon, County Durham, on was first erected at Euston station in London in 1871 and was on display until 2020 when it was moved into storage due to HS2 works. Museum head Sarah Price said she hoped the statue would help "inspire" the next generation of engineers from the north-east of England. Robert Stephenson and his father George set up the first company in the world to build commercial steam firm produced Locomotion No 1 in 1825, the first engine to pull a passenger train on a public also developed the London and Birmingham railway which opened in 1838 - the first intercity railway into the capital. The statue of Stephenson was designed by Italian sculptor Carlo Marochetti in the 19th Century. It was on display at Euston for 149 years until it was put into Price said the statue had been leased to the museum for 10 years and had been restored ahead of its unveiling to the public again. "It will look pretty much brand new," she said. With all the trains on display at the Locomotion museum, Ms Price said it was "easy to forget" the "human endeavour" behind the feats of engineering. "Having a statue of somebody who was so intimately involved in that kind of early story - it's just easier for people to relate to," she said. Follow BBC North East on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
