The top 30 rating items on Scoop this week were....
Dates: 15/Nov/1999, 16/Nov/1999, 17/Nov/1999, 18/Nov/1999, 19/Nov/1999, 20/Nov/1999, 21/Nov/1999
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house
…enjoy.
Today, Scoop welcomes Barb Sumner to our columnist fold. Barb is a freelance writer, a regular in "Grace" and "Metro"
and occasionally in the NZ Herald. She warns: some consider her works "too extreme". You be the judge.
Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes delivered a stinging defeat to Paul Cayard's AmericaOne on a white-capped Hauraki Gulf today as one boat in
each of four other matches retired with gear problems.
The Forest and Bird Protection Society is concerned that Frodo and his hairy hobbit friends with their attendant large
film crews may severely damage sensitive landscapes in the Kahurangi National Park and Kepler Mire, an ancient string
bog in Fiordland.
Richard Prebble's electorate office window had a rock thrown through it last Thursday night as a campaign of vandalism
against ACT in Wellington Central appears to be escalating.
Thursday's racing started under heavy conditions, the wind blowing from the North at near 20 knots, the seas heavy with
a two metre swell. What followed was a day of postponements, withdrawals, penalties and an outstanding display of
aggressive ...
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
Italy's Prada Americas Cup challenger team has won its tenth match of the Louis Vuitton Cup in Round Robin. Prada beat
the French yacht Le Défi by 3 minutes 49 seconds. The win followed a cheer session between the crew of Luna Rossa and
world acclaimed ...
Scoop has a fine, unopened bottle of single malt whisky to whomever can correctly predict the election result.
Italy's Prada Team is proving an almost unstoppable force in the Americas Cup challenger series races on Auckland's
Hauraki Gulf.
Lights…. cameras….crane… are we ready…..Steady now...don’t mind the wind Jim...Nearer my god to thee...
The two photos above one apparently of the same scene - appear to confirm that the Hobbit Town photos published this
morning by the Dominion are indeed real - even if they do look a little too toy townish.
There is a real risk in placing too much trust in the polls, however this week definite and consistent trends suggest
New Zealand is preparing to vote for a new government. Jonathan Hill writes.
If there is one thing you can say of the Green Party in this election, it is that they have run the cleanest campaign.
Despite barbs and ridicule from every main political party, including those who may eventually depend on their support
to form a government, ...
Today's racing brought a change of conditions from the past two days, heavy Northerlies giving way overnight to gentle
South winds blowing from 7-13 knots. The winds were shifty however, both in velocity and direction, and the afterguards
earned their ...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, if a week is a long time in politics, time appears to stretch even further under a
general election campaign.
The following pictures show the inside of the set for the town of Bree from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy which began
shooting in New Zealand yesterday under the direction of Peter Jackson.
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today responded to the NBR story (19/11/99) alleging an
outstanding New Zealand First debt.
The Green Party look set to propel Labour into office after a poll showed party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons opening up
an eight point lead over National’s Murray McLean.
Warning Lord Of The Rings Spoiler photos…. courtesy of Scoop’s content partner http://www.theonering.net/ Scoop brings
the first published pictures of Froddo and Bilbo Baggins house, in the Waikato.
More than three weeks after Scoop first published a picture of, allegedly, the home of a Hobbit from the Lord of the
Rings, and the day after we published aerial photos of the Waikato set the Dominion News Paper have run two highly
dubious – and probably ...
There's little hope the Left could form any sort of Government, if they have so much trouble trusting each other over
disabled parking spaces, said Roger Sowry.
The New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, said today that the Christchurch Press is using dirty tricks and
sheer malice to malign the local candidate, Dr Andrew Gin.
In a fit of pique, upset that his Green counterpart is getting more publicity, Bernard Darnton, Libertarianz spokesman
for law and order and leader of Wild Libz - The New Freeland Liberation Army, today announced his plan to burn down the
houses of his ...
A state of emergency has been announced in the Central Otago town of Alexandra as the worst flood in over 100 years hits
the area.
Officials in New Zealand want to capture and kill, as illegal pests, imported Australian frogs, while in South Australia
doctor's have discovered frogs may be the key to curing a wide-range of human ills. It's a strange world. John Howard
reports.
Wellington unemployed people are being forced by WINZ to attend "confidence building" courses at which they are being
told to vote for the ACT Party according to UNITE!, the union representing unemployed and community wage workers.
How much longer do we have to endure the shame of having asylum seekers hunger striking while locked up inside Mt Eden
Prison? A long time yet if today’s media release from Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere is anything to go by.
Frankly the minister’s ...
The Act Party has two income tax policies. One is to "move to a flatter tax rate structure" with "a top rate of company
and personal income tax of no more than 20%" ("Tax - A Fair Tax System For Jobs and Growth", 3 November media release,
Rodney ...
New Zealander Juliette Harrington, is suing Internet giant Yahoo! for allegedly infringing on a patent for her software
that allows people to compare prices for goods and services sold over the Internet. John Howard reports.