DARTS fan Beverley Brunker hit the bullseye when she took part in a national competition for her local pub.

And her prize - a full range of equipment - will help her set up an official darts team at the Swan and Royal in Clitheroe where she works.

Catering student Beverley, of Faraday Avenue, Clitheroe, won the competition while she was attending a National Pub Trade Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham earlier this year.

She said: "I don't really know how I won!

"I played darts with a couple of darting champions and signed my name in a few draws and the next thing I knew I had won."

The prize includes a dartboard, signed by world champion darters Martin Adams, Andy Fordham and Mandy Solomans, who were all at the exhibition, a cabinet and a floor mat.

The competition was arranged by the smokers' rights group FOREST - Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco - but Beverley gave up smoking quite a while ago!

She added: "I have told the organisers that I don't smoke any more, but they say it doesn't matter.

"I'm delighted with the prize and I hope to get a darts team together now to play in the summer league."

Beverley, 35, received her prize from Alan Glazier, England and Lancashire darts player.

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