Prince Charles has knocked the Lord of the Rings out of the top spot. Today's top 20 rating items on Scoop are...
Relations between the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, and British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, have hit an all-time
low following Blair's branding of the prince as a "goon." John Howard reports.
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.
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 US Republican Party aide says that New Zealand bore much of the blame for a disgraceful feud which is flaring over the
appointment of US ambassador-designate to New Zealand, Carol Moseley-Braun. John Howard reports.
At the last count more than 365,000 hits had been received by the Young National’s “nocrap” website. The success of the
site is partly due to publicity generated by Labour MP Pete Hodgson’s complaints.
Scoop wouldn’t normally so shamelessly lift a photo from a newspaper but in this instance the claim in the Mirror/Daily
Record that this is the “first” picture of the Lord of the Rings secret Kingdom, is, respectfully disputed.
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….
Much of New Zealand has this morning been shaken by an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale.
ID4 has sent me some startling news! This may not be accurate, but ID4 does have some expierence in the field of CGI
art, he first sent me this:
There are some strange fates that can await you in this world. For example you could be walking the frozen tundras of
Siberia, with your friends and relations 22,000 years ago, only to find yourself run over by a glacier and frozen solid.
In a move which should make government's around the world blush with embarrassment, young law students at the University
of California are taking on international human rights struggles and winning. John Howard reports.
HONG KONG -- The first crack in the US government's version of the May 7 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade came
from an agency of the US government. Now, five months later, the official story has crumbled almost entirely -- but
you'd never ...
The Surf Life Saving Association is today conducting an inquiry after two fathers died at Piha, west Auckland, on
Monday. Here Scoop brings you late evening images of the power and dangers of Piha surf. Our message: Be Safe, Have Fun.
Emissaries from Labour and the Alliance have come to upton-on-line pleading for one day's relief from the stinging
attacks they and their policies have received from this site.
"No wonder the Prime Minister is trying to duck as many election campaign debates as possible. She must be worried that
her weak grasp of basic economics will be exposed," Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said today.
Irish Eyes has learnt, through being especially vigilant in examining places capitalism has yet to reach, that if
Australians vote to become a republic in their upcoming referendum on the matter the government will move to secure a
$US12 billion two-year ...
With the Greens launching their election campaign last weekend Labour has slowly started to hint that Labour supporters
in the Coromandel should support Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons. This move has major implications. Jonathan Hill
writes.
Newly released studies from Auckland University and Victoria University have backed up the findings of a Student
Association Research Project conducted in 1998.
“People who vote for Murray McLean will get what they want, end of story. Whereas those who vote for Fitzsimons will
inadvertently ensure other Green candidates join the public payroll,” said Coromandel MP Murray McLean today.
“Who is running the Government – the civil servant bureaucrats or the warranted Ministers of the Crown?” asks Gael
Donoghue, Health spokesperson for the Christian Heritage Party. She was commenting on the recent difficulties
experienced by Immigration Minister, ...