Today's top 20 rating items are...
"Peter Jackson suggested a droopier moustache. I suddenly looked like a double for the Beatles' Maharishi", actor Ian
McKellen on his transformation into the mage Gandolf - a Lord Of The Rings snapshot.
I began this e-mail last night because I found it hard to sleep. I want to put Kit's persecution into a context for the
record. Please excuse the length. Henrik is right. There is a book in this.
Ironically enough, the spur to think again about the nature of `freedom' was provided by a phrase in a Young Nationals
column - Jordan Carter in his From The Left Column.
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some
scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.
In the interests of informing the public Scoop has taken a number of photographs which show plans for massive building
development on the Wellington Waterfront.
The Act Party have made fools of themselves by publicising a Native Forest Action email and claiming it embarrasses the
government.
The government's decision to axe beech logging on the West Coast has been criticised yet again, with a foreign forestry
expert saying the move was shortsighted. Scoop's West Coast correspondent John Howard reports.
Banks are charging too much in fees and are misleading the Banking Ombudsman say a group to meet with the Minister of
Consumer Affairs Phillida Bunkle, on Tuesday.
Kiwi golfer Michael Campbell made it second-time lucky beating 1998 winner Thomas Bjorn in the NZ$2.1 million (A$1.6
million) Heinekin Classic, as thunder and lightening crackled ominously overhead.
United New Zealand Party leader, Hon Peter Dunne, describes the Prime Minister’s reaction to private e-mail comments by
a Timberlands executive as a “chilling and eerie over-reaction.”
TVNZ have come out strongly in defence of their termination of John Hawkesby’s news presenter company contract a year
ago.
CONTENTS: Editorial: Mad Right-Wingers, and "We Won The War" A response to last week's column Rebels misfire again!
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today that a commercial herd of 10,000 genetically modified sheep in
the Waikato made a mockery of "field trial" approvals granted by the environmental risk management authority.
NOTE: In association with our content partner http://www.theonering.net/ Scoop is delighted to bring you an account of
Lord of the Rings reporter Tehanu’s visit to Hobbitton. The story is fairly remarkable as Tehanu’s invitation from Peter
Jackson ...
"Parts of the Crimes Act are still based on a Nineteenth Century assumption that woman are incapable of committing a
range of sexual offences", Justice Minister, Phil Goff, said today.
The Labour Government's outrage over an e-mail from Timberland's Kit Richards turned to embarrassment today when an
e-mail from the head of the Native Forest Action Network revealed the Labour Party funding the group's "guerrilla
warfare" campaign ...
There were five committee meetings, all held in Parliament House.
Following Is the Original Letter from the Royal Forest And Bird Society along with the Timberlands Employee's Email
which started the controversy.
Governor Brash - Screwdriver Gang - Regatta Mishap - African Plane Crash - Dinghy Pair Feared Dead - Windsurfer Lost -
Truck Accident - Christian Cullen
In the interests of informing the public Scoop has taken a number of photographs which show plans for massive building
development on the Wellington Waterfront.