SIMON WHITLOCK won his first PDC title for 14 months as he defeated James Wade 6-3 to win Sunday's Players Championship 12 in Coventry.

GARY ANDERSON picked up his fifth PDC ProTour win of 2014 as he overcame Robert Thornton 6-2 in the final of Players Championship 11 in Coventry.

THE 2015 William Hill World Darts Championship will feature a record £1,250,000 prize fund and be played from December 18-January 4 at Alexandra Palace in London.

THE UK Qualifier for July's European Darts Open took place at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

MICHAEL VAN GERWEN has set his sights on claiming victory in the Gibraltar Darts Trophy later this month, after continuing his great run of success by winning the World Cup of Darts.

THE second stage of DARTSLIVE - THE WORLD Soft Darts World Championship takes place in La Rochelle, France on June 15.

PICTURES from the bwin World Cup of Darts second round at the Sporthalle Hamburg.

THE Netherlands have won the bwin World Cup of Darts title for a second time, as Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld crushed England's hopes of a third successive victory.

PICTURES from the bwin World Cup of Darts first round at the Sporthalle Hamburg.

ENGLAND, Australia, the Netherlands and Northern Ireland will compete for the bwin World Cup of Darts title on Sunday night after winning through the quarter-finals at the Sporthalle Hamburg.