1.   One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues.

2.   Meanwhile, sporting venues across the region have disappeared in the deluge.

3.   TALKS are to be held between a cricket club and a rugby club over the future of a top sporting venue.

4.   A CRUNCH meeting tonight will determine the next moves in the battle over a prestige North-East sporting venue.

5.   But the campers were the opening wave of auto racing fanatics who will turn this sprawling, small-town racetrack into a huge sporting venue this weekend.

6.   In most high-level sporting venues, winning is currency, it buys respect and recognition.

7.   It respects the fact that he uses the off-season to find ways to make sporting venues more accessible to the physically disabled.

8.   It requires world-class sporting venues, perseverance, time and money.

9.   Once the Games begin next weekend, George will head out to the sporting venues until nearly midnight.

10.   The same holds true for hotels, sporting venues, airports, highways, electronic gizmos and telephone systems.