内容摘要："It is work that they want done. They are paying to have that work conducted."

"It is work that they want done. They are paying to have that work conducted."

Mr Huxtable, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has completed the majority of his work from Nodor's Bridgend headquarters for about 25 years, but also travels to Kenya where their darts are mass-produced for the retail market.The family-run Nodor group, which Red Dragon Darts is part of, moved production of its darts and dartboards to Kenya after it acquired the Winmau brand around 20 years ago.

The sisal plant grows naturally in the east African country and is the best material for bristle boards, lowering operating costs.Nodor opened up its own sales and distribution centre in Dallas, Texas in 2023 and now produces 30,000 sets of darts and 20,000 dartboards a week from its factories in Kenya, and employs 1,000 staff.Mr Huxtable said: "It's always about the technology which goes into the dart for performance enhancement which is the most important for me.

"In one of my favourite darts we managed to fuse 85% tungsten at the back of the shaft with 95% tungsten at the front to move the centre of gravity forward."The concept being that a lot of players like a front-weighted dart but the players don't want to make the dart any fatter at the front."

With the Luke Littler effect fuelling the junior game, darts is now described as being in its third golden age and attracts the highest viewing figures on Sky television, second only to Premier League football.

More than three million people watched 17-year-oldJules, clutching a single rose, paused on a footbridge and told the crowd "thank you".

Jules said her husband had always been so determined to recover that he had not planned much for his funeral."I didn't like to bring it up too much in case he thought that I thought he was going to die," she said.

"We did have a funny conversation once when he said 'if you keep talking funerals you're really damaging my confidence here'. So I stopped."James Chippendale, the co-founder of Peters' charity, Love Hope Strength, said the celebration of his life was "very, very Mike Peters".