AUSTRALIAN spearhead Brett Lee has declared it a priority to maintain Australia's vice-like grip on Graeme Smith as part of the effort to leave some early scars on South Africa in the first Test.

AUSTRALIAN spearhead Brett Lee says Australia's priority must be to maintain their vice-like grip on Graeme Smith as part of the effort to leave some early scars on South Africa in the first Test.

WILLIE HERNAN does not remember the race fall that took his livelihood but not his life. He figures those seconds are lost forever, but he will always sport the scars of the day he almost died.

CAMERON Munro has quite a tale to tell his schoolmates when he returns to class - he has survived a snake bite, and he has the scars to prove it.

Connie Levett finds a family detained under the watch of Philip Ruddock has left the scars at the bars.