Speedy Hire, the UK’s number one provider of rental equipment, is swapping its work tools for tungsten next week when it steps up to the oche for the first time as official sponsors of the PDC Darts UK Open.

And to celebrate the brand’s exciting new flight of fancy in the sporting arena, Newsquest Northwest has teamed up with them to promote their fantastic competition and to give away a pair of tickets to the first day of entertainment on Thursday June 2 to ten lucky winners.

With the arrows flying across eight stages simultaneously, the Sky Sports-televised event at the Reebok Stadium is one of the most popular in the sporting calendar and offers a spectacle quite unlike anything else in the darting arena, making tickets highly sought after prizes for any sporting aficionado!

The Speedy Hire UK Open televised finals offers £200,000 in prize money, including £40,000 to the winner. It features the leading 96 professionals from the UK Open Order of Merit following eight Qualifiers held from February-May, alongside 64 Qualifiers, 32 of those from Speedy. The Speedy Hire UK Open will be screened live on Sky Sports HD from the Reebok Stadium.

For more information about Speedy Hire and its services, click on www.speedyservices.com

HOW TO WIN!

To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the following question and email your answer, together with your name, address and daytime contact telephone number (please mark SPEEDY HIRE in your subject line). Closing date is 9.00am on May 31, 2011. Usual Newsquest Northwest rules apply. See competition rules section for details. No purchase necessary.

Question: Who is the current UK Open champion?

a) Phil Taylor

b) Rod Harrington

c) Dennis Priestley

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Terms and Conditions:

The editor's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Employees of Newsquest Northwest, their families and anyone connected with this competition are not eligible to enter. Usual Newsquest Northwest rules apply. Winners will be notified by email wherever possible and Newsquest Northwest takes no responsibility for unread emails which leads to prizes being untaken. In the unlikely event that a prize event is cancelled, no further prize will be given and there will be no cash alternative. Speedy Hire may want to contact you with details of similar events. If you would prefer NOT to hear from them, please state NO DATA in your entry.