The top 20 rating items on Scoop over the weekend were...
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….
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.
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).
A series of images from last night's broadcast on TV2 of an truly extraordinary documentary... See Scoop's review of the
show... Jesus Christ Tells FOXNews He Wants To Hug World .
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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.
A number of links to various reports, briefings and accounts of the military coup in Pakistan. All from the Scoop
archives.
Australia fears an East Timor invasion, not from pro-independence militiamen, but from pesky insects, snails and weeds.
John Howard reports.
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
...
New Zealanders do not mind native trees being logged providing it is done sensibly, according to the results of a recent
AC Nielsen survey. Scoop's West Coast correspondent, John Howard, reports.
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 ...
Despite having never had the opportunity of speaking to a Minister of Education, students at Otago University are
breathing a sigh of relief that Minister for Tertiary Education, Max Bradford, has cancelled his scheduled appearance at
Otago University ...
"Which National Socialist are we to believe," wonders Libertarianz Spokesman Peter Cresswell, "the one blathering about
'forging a brighter future for rural people', or the one today giving cretinous councillors the authority to impose spot
...
Scoop visits Peter Jackson's Camperdown studios: Welcome To Camperdown - Camperdown Carpark - The Gates Of Camperdown -
Camperdown Barracks.
15: Dump the Treaty
"The Treaty of Waitangi has become an instrument of apartheid and should be dumped." That is the view of Libertarianz
leader and broadcaster Lindsay Perigo, and that is the policy of his party, reconfirmed today. "It is touted as the ...
State Services Minister, Simon Upton, condemned Labour deputy leader Michael Cullen's willingness to threaten public
servants as "outrageous".
Claims by Labour that they did not know contracts for future native forest logging were being negotiated shows the party
failed to heed a number of warnings from a number of organisations that this was occurring.
The Aotearoa Post-compulsory Student Union has applauded the intentions shown by Rod Donald and the Green Party with the
release of their Tertiary Education Policy today.
Cityjet Grounded - Sweat Shop - Health Fraud - WWI Pardons - Winz Row - Timberlands - Jakarta Unrest - East Timor -
America's Cup Opening Parade
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. ...