The top 30 rating items on Scoop this week were...
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house
…enjoy.
It was like a replay of the sinking of OneAustralia off San Francisco in 1995. The New York Yacht Club's Young America
yacht split almost in two while racing in heavy wind today.
Warning Lord Of The Rings Spoiler photos…. courtesy of Scoop’s content partner http://www.theonering.net/ Scoop brings
the first published pictures of Froddo and Bilbo Baggins house, in the Waikato.
The second Round Robin of the Louis Vuitton Cup (the Challenger Selection Series for the XXX America's Cup) started
Today.
Disaster struck the New York Yacht Club's challenge for the Americas Cup today as Young America split almost in half in
moderate seas on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. Here too is a full report on team standings, points, who races who and the
weather.
The wheels temporarily came off the ACT machine over the weekend when National Radio played a pre-recorded interview
with party leader Richard Prebble on ACT’s views on funding for the arts. Jonathan Hill writes.
Americas Cup officials have given approval to the New York Yacht Club backed Young America team to race its substitute
boat USA 58.
More than three weeks after Scoop first published a picture of, allegedly, the home of a Hobbit from the Lord of the
Rings, and the day after we published aerial photos of the Waikato set the Dominion News Paper have run two highly
dubious – and probably ...
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
Last Monday morning – Black Monday – the All Blacks were beaten 43- 31 by France. Last Monday afternoon in the Beehive
an “urgent” press conference was called by the PM. The PM announced that the government believed it was possible to
lower both the ...
The two photos above one apparently of the same scene - appear to confirm that the Hobbit Town photos published this
morning by the Dominion are indeed real - even if they do look a little too toy townish.
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 TV 3 CM Research Poll shows National slumping in support down five per cent to 28 per cent with Labour gaining four
per cent to 41 per cent.
So far the Dominion is sticking behind its photos of Hobbiton published this morning. Scoop however thinks they remain
rather fishy looking.
Last nights TV One Colmar Brunton Poll of Wellington Central has revealed a cliffhanger race for the seat of parliament
with ACT leader Richard Prebble on 47 per cent and Labour’s Marian Hobbs on 48 per cent of the electorate vote.
There are times I worry about Winston; Peters that is, not that notorious party hopper Churchill. Every time he says
"MMP" I sense another percentage point of anti-MMP sentiment. And when he talks about watertight coalition documents and
talks ...
On the night a poll was released showing Wellington Central to be a knife edge battle – with Labour’s Marion Hobbs on
48% to Richard Prebbles 47% - Clyde Quay School was the venue for another round of bait the candidates.
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:
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 McGillicuddy Serious Party released it's party list the other day, and has seen fit to make public announcement.
Party Secretary Bernard Smith has expressed great pleasure in the team the selection committee has got together. "We are
delighted ...
Several hundred rugby stalwarts welcomed the defeated All Black Rugby World Cup team home this morning.
The latest TV One Colmar Brunton poll of the Coromandel seat shows Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons nosing
ahead of encumbent National MP Murray McLean.
Over the last few weeks it has looked increasingly likely that NZ First will again hold the balance of power after this
election. Realising this, the games of Winston Peters have begun in earnest although this time - unlike last - he is
holding the ...
Against the backdrop of the latest super computer predictions that we have truly stuffed the world’s climate and should
expect a good deal of suffering next century as a result of global warming, Irish Eyes seeks to provide a way of
watering the ...
"Is it more noble, to give or to receive?" asks Sally O'Brien, Libertarianz Social Welfare Deregulation Spokesman. "I
suggest," she says, "that it is more noble to produce, for without the producer there is nothing for either ...
The Green Party have surged to just under the five per cent threshold in the latest New Zealand Herald-Digipoll released
this morning (Friday).
Confirmation has come from the Australian government that Echelon, a global network which can eavesdrop on phone, fax or
e-mail anywhere on the planet, does exist. US Congressmen are calling for a full inquiry. John Howard reports.
New Zealander Mike Moore, now heading the WTO, is in hot water with fourteen developing countries who say they are being
shut out of WTO negotitations. John Howard reports.
Most of us think 45 isn't really old and it's strange to call them older workers. But, according to the Australian
National Congess on Ageing, bosses are unfairly disadvantaging older people. John Howard reports.
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