January's top 30 rating items on Scoop were..
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.
Just how much did the drug importing billionaire pay for his freedom? Not a lot according to Scoop sources.
Images courtesy of the New Zealand Defence force….
Cannabis law reformers have mixed feelings over the recent "non-criminal" importation of marijuana and hashish by an
American billioniare.
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 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.
Russia's acting president, Vladamir Putin, is beating the drums of nationalism saying he wants to rebuild Russia's
military and economic power, and he wants a woman to be the Speaker in the Duma. John Howard reports.
Scoop's Alastair Thompson discusses the ongoing debate over Maori Activist Titewhai Harawira's stand against Prime
Minister Helen Clark speaking out of turn on the Waitangi Marae and concludes that some good is coming of all the hot
air .
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.
In a Millennium move back to the dark ages which will likely outrage Christians, Jews and Moslems, a Vatican body
formerly known as the Inquisition, has ordered copies of a book entitled Women At The Alter to be warehoused or burned.
An American billionaire caught importing over 100 grams of cannabis is flying home today leaving controversy in his
wake.
"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.
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.
A few days ago I watched a programme made by Nicholas Booth in 1997 for the BBC Counterblast series, called "The End of
the World?". As with John Pilger's documentaries, viewers were warned that this programme represented a critical
"personal view" ...
Thailand and the Japanese Global Infrastructure Fund are embarking on a bold and ambitious plan to build a canal linking
the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It will rival the Panama and Suez canals. John Howard reports.
Following Is the Original Letter from the Royal Forest And Bird Society along with the Timberlands Employee's Email
which started the controversy.
A meeting held last night by Waterfront Watch in the Old Town Hall to oppose the council’s plans for the Wellington
Waterfront was attended by an unusually large crowd. The hall quickly filled to capacity and again – as happened last
Thursday ...
A drug importing billionare paid around $50,000 to the Odyssey House drug rehabilitation centre as a donation,
substantially more than Scoop earlier reported.
By what criteria does television pay its newsreaders? One criterion is star quality. Stars are persons who - by dint of
their personalities, talents and profiles - can generate revenues for their employers sufficient to justify huge fees or
salary packages. ...
The Act Party have made fools of themselves by publicising a Native Forest Action email and claiming it embarrasses the
government.
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 ...
House prices fell sharply last week amid much concern and media hooplah. But is the fall necessarily a bad thing?
Scoop's Jordan Carter looks into the matter in his weekly 'On the Left' column.
Yesterday we were subject to the embarrassing experience of the Reserve Bank tightening monetary policy just two hours
before the public announcement of a December quarter inflation rate of just 0.2 percent. The Bank had forecast that the
inflation rate ...
A district court judge today ruled that the Herald Newspaper has the right to challenge the name suppression of the
American billionaire caught importing cannabis into the country last week - but the paper will not get an opportunity to
do so till Monday.
New Zealand, Australia and Canada appear to have unconstitutional governments as a result of a bureaucratic bungle
eighty years ago when all three nations gained independence from Britain.
The United States is now a major drug-producing nation on a par with Burma, Peru, Bolivia and Columbia according to
Barry McCaffrey, head of President Clinton's US Office of National Anti-Drug Policy. John Howard reports.
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.
On Monday 24 January a new magazine is launching in New Zealand, but its main story will affect residents in Australia,
Canada and the United States as well.
As the Russian military begins its invasion of Grozny, Russia has launched a strategic intercontinental Topol-M missile
using the occasion to warn the West against criticising its Chechen campaign. John Howard reports.
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house
…enjoy.