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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The
preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
2: TV3 News
Gisborne Cancer Inquiry - ANZ Bank Fees - Scott Watson Appeal - Salvage Fails - Greenpeace Arrest - Singapore - Lord Of
The Rings
Movie star Liv Tyler takes a break from a hectic schedule of filming for the Lord of the Rings trilogy earlier this year
for a spot of shopping on Wellington's Willis St - photo Kevin Stent of the Sunday Star Times.
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The
preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
Liv Tyler, Wellywood’s most talked about starlet, has been acting it up during shooting of the Lord of the Rings, both
on and off the set.
Greenpeace finds some toothfishers and gives them a message from the planet - go away. Images Greenpeace .
London, June 18, 1999 – Millions of pounds worth of damage caused by anti-capitalist demonstrators in London’s financial
district.
Over the weekend the Government announced it was considering a radical proposal for censoring television stations, in
the name of promoting local culture. What I want to know is why we can’t just let people watch what they want to. Why is
that such ...
IN WELLINGTON... - Copita - Happy Birthday, Ed's - CueFuel - StarMart .... AND WORLDWIDE - E-Bouncers - Julia Child
Kitchen - Guinness question
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath poured scorn on the Employment Tribunal after it fined a woman for running a
'sweat-shop'.
Upton-on-line has been holed up in the old Legislative Council Chamber taking part in the great constitutional debate
sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies. The great, the good, the aggrieved and the grumpy (or at least 117 of
them) have ...
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitsimmons will tomorrow meet with the Prime Minister to discuss the GE Royal Commission and
accompanying moratorium – an announcement on which was put off for another week today.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into genetic engineering will not, it seems, include any focus on genetically
engineered food. Apparently New Zealand’s international trade obligations are the reason.
Christchurch Central MP Tim Barnett has called for a focus on the facts in the ongoing debate over the Under 25
stickers. He believes that the accusations and counter accusations concerning the scheme run real risk of by-passing
some vital and worrying facts which ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that the Queen has approved the recommendation of the government to
discontinue in future the titles of Sir and Dame in the New Zealand honours system.
I'd always thought the Olympic Games was a marathon event, requiring a lot of endurance, skill and so on to get to.
John Tamihere’s attempt to cite ACT leader Richard Prebble for breach of privilege has been turned down by the Speaker,
the Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt.
New Zealand First has accused the Government of defying Parliamentary convention with its arbitrary decision to scrap
Dames and Knights from the Honours system.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... sometimes, probably times when you're heavily sedated, you have to love the dear old New
Zealand Stock Exchange. As markets the world over slumped on Tuesday, the NZSE boomed.
The Prime Minister’s decision to discontinue the awarding of knighthoods is the politics of envy, said ACT leader
Richard Prebble “The coalition has no mandate for the change, and they have not sought any approval from Parliament. The
government argument for ...