Vince Jones, Bruce Mathiske and George Golla are headlining Norfolk Island's Jazz in the Pines Festival from December 2-9. Return flights, taxes, seven-night's accommodation, seven days car hire, island tour, picnic breakfast, mini golf and tickets to two concerts with champagne are $1248 pp from Newcastle. Call 1800 140 066.

THE mighty Asquith Magpies under-six rugby league side - composed of four- to six-year-olds - has been doing it tough in recent weeks with all the wet weather having caused game after game to be cancelled. The littlies from the Pennant Hills Stags under-sixes were feeling the same, which is..read more

TALK to Rodger Davis about golf and you soon realise you are talking about a love affair- a lifelong relationship that is more than a job or making money, it is his way of life. It is a life which has taken him to the highs and..read more

MOSCOW, Tuesday: The grand old game of golf, which has become a classic symbol of leisured capitalism, is at last coming to the Soviet Union. Plans have been approved by the Soviet Sports Committee to build a 36-hole golf and tourist complex on the western outskirts of..read more

TOKYO, Thursday: In August, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone took three weeks off and retired to the pricey hill resort of Karuizawa. There he played golf and tennis, strolled in the woods, went to a few parties and read books on Buddhism and haiku, the 17-syllable poetry form. ..read more