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The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the Weekend were...
ACT is today warning that Government plans to stop appeals to the Privy Council is part of an elite agenda for creeping
constitutional change without letting ordinary New Zealanders vote on it.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... some weeks the headlines are not kind to news commentators. There are precious few laughs in
the likes of the cervical screening inquiry, which seeks to trawl over one man's disastrous misreading of test results
over the span ...
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.
4: TV3 News
Gisborne Cancer Inquiry - ANZ Bank Fees - Scott Watson Appeal - Salvage Fails - Greenpeace Arrest - Singapore - Lord Of
The Rings
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.
Hoping to find protests of Seattle like proportions, Scoop went to the demonstration against global capitalism in
Wellington's Manners Mall and found... very little.
Green Party transport spokesperson Sue Kedgley today said there were a number of measures Transport Minister Mark Goshe
should take to stop the building of the Wellington Inner City motorway.
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.
The following pictures show a protest outside the Bolivian Counsulate in Auckland held to object to the privatisation of
the Bolvian water industry and to draw attention to the loss of life in riots that followed. Pictures supplied by the
Water Pressure ...
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.
The NOAA Super Computer long range forecast for Ethiopia looks bright for Holy Week. The following image shows
significant amounts of rain falling in drought stricken Ethiopia on Easter Sunday and Good Friday.
The ACT Party official website has registered over 200,000 hits since the beginning of the month as employers and
employees alike seek information and make submissions on the radically dangerous Employment Relations Bill.
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.
This week, the ANZ bank announced that it would follow WestpacTrust in charging fees whenever its customers used other
banks' automatic teller machines. This is a classic example of the "prisoners' dilemma" in which individualist behaviour
leads ...
A report on the impact of the private accident insurance regime on health service providers, prepared for the Department
of Labour, reveals some of the pitfalls of the private model, says acting ACC Minister Ruth Dyson.
On day three of Eforce’s Imac giveaway promotion – 100 Imacs in 100 days – the new Ecommerce “intermediary” ecommerce
portal has nearly doubled its pre-promotion membership base and now has 7500 members.
A lecture on the challenge of the peaceful resolution of conflict, delivered April 12th by Nelson Mandela, Nobel Prize
winner and former South African President, at the Independent Newspapers Annual Lecture in Trinity College, Dublin.
A policeman ringing to obtain his file is not what Libertarianz spokesman Daniel Charlton expected to see when he
finished presenting the party’s submission to a Parliamentary Select Committee!
GreenPeace protestors dressed as Polar Bears attending yesterdays BP Amoco AGM in London. The protestors won a victory
when 13.5% of BP shareholders voted in favour of a resolution calling on the company to abandon its Northstar
exploration and exploitation ...
Responding to the hints of a couple of US Lord of The Rings websites – http://www.lordoftherings.com/ and
http://www.onering.net/ - Scoop earlier this week informed its star Hobbit paparazzi of a reported sighting of Gandalf’s
exploding trees in Upper Hutt.