Thanks to an apparently insatiable fascination with the Lord of The Rings, Scoop has had an unusually high rating
week...the week's Top 20 items were..
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.
Scoop visits Peter Jackson's Camperdown studios: Welcome To Camperdown - Camperdown Carpark - The Gates Of Camperdown -
Camperdown Barracks.
Having seemingly scored the internet Scoop of the week with his pictures of BREE AT FIRST LIGHT Scoop contacted the
Hobbit who scooped the world and asked him if he had any more snaps from his visit to Bree….
(Los Angeles, October 7, 1999) – The Lord of the Rings film trilogy begins principal photography in Wellington, New
Zealand, on October 11, 1999, under the direction of Peter Jackson, it was jointly announced today by Robert Shaye,
Chairman and Chief ...
This morning Radio New Zealand’s Kim Hill interviewed a fellow radio personality – Radio Pacific’s “Banksie”, retiring
National MP for Whangarei and former Police Minister Hon. John Banks. As usual Kim did not take too long to cut to the
chase.
Labour’s Coromandel candidate Margaret Hawkeswood has ruled out any electoral accomodation in the Coromandel, despite
the latest poll showing Labour will need the Greens to form a new government.
SCOOP NEWS ANALYSIS - British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook's, arrival in New Zealand prior to September's APEC forum
caused Thailand Foreign Ministry official, Kobsak Chitikul, to ask, "Why is Mr Robin Cook here?" Britain is not a member
...
Australian special forces and navy divers have been carrying out covert operations in East Timor since April in a
provocative move that prompted warnings from Jakarta. John Howard reports.
One of the most extraordinary documentaries this Scoop has ever seen was broadcast on TV2 last night. The documentary
"Signs Of God - Science Tests Faith", from Fox News was broadcast live on October 13 in Los Angeles (yesterday NZT).
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Labour has been given a message by the latest TV3 C.M Research Poll. It needs the Green Party in Parliament to become
Government. And National is short of gaining a majority as ACT lags in the polls. The gap between the two major parties
is closing. ...
Fifteen minutes into the second half of the World Cup rugby clash at Twickenham London a timewarp appeared to take the
game back four years to the 1995 World Cup Semi-final in which brilliant All Black wing Jonah Lomu exploded over Jeremy
Guscott and then ...
This account of the incident is from the president of the Canterbury University Postgraduate Students' Society, Donald
Anderson. It differs markedly from Bradford's account.
Week three of the election campaign was again dominated by tertiary education, though this time not for the debate over
policy. The week was also significant as a TV3 CM Research poll showed the gap between the two main parties closing,
thus reinforcing ...
Three days after the Paddington rail crash in England, the mobile telephones inside the carriages may have finally
stopped ringing. This provides some relief for the search teams, but not much. John Howard reports.
Not enough that Ireland’s business elite stands accused of dodging hundreds of millions worth of punts in taxes, the
country’s colourful former leader Charles Haughey has been exposed as a wasteful and vain shopaholic. Stefan Wolf
reports from Ireland.
The Minister for Tertiary Education, Hon Max Bradford, at the invitation of the University of Canterbury Students’
Association, addressed an audience of between 100 and 200 students at the University of Canterbury this morning.
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The last week of the 1996-1999 Parliament comes to an end....EXTENDED BULLETIN
MAD MAX 4: THE UNIVERSITY The Aotearoa Post-compulsory Student Union today described the confrontation between the
Minister for Tertiary Education and a Canterbury University student this morning as "the unfortunate result of a lack of
Ministerial training".