Scoop's top 20 rating items yesterday were...
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house
…enjoy.
Lights…. cameras….crane… are we ready…..Steady now...don’t mind the wind Jim...Nearer my god to thee...
A state of emergency has been announced in the Central Otago town of Alexandra as the worst flood in over 100 years hits
the area.
Richard Prebble's electorate office window had a rock thrown through it last Thursday night as a campaign of vandalism
against ACT in Wellington Central appears to be escalating.
Scoop has a fine, unopened bottle of single malt whisky to whomever can correctly predict the election result.
Today, Scoop welcomes Barb Sumner to our columnist fold. Barb is a freelance writer, a regular in "Grace" and "Metro"
and occasionally in the NZ Herald. She warns: some consider her works "too extreme". You be the judge.
Italy's Prada Team is proving an almost unstoppable force in the Americas Cup challenger series races on Auckland's
Hauraki Gulf.
There's little hope the Left could form any sort of Government, if they have so much trouble trusting each other over
disabled parking spaces, said Roger Sowry.
Wellington unemployed people are being forced by WINZ to attend "confidence building" courses at which they are being
told to vote for the ACT Party according to UNITE!, the union representing unemployed and community wage workers.
The FBI is taking over the investigation into the EgyptAir 990 crash after the cockpit voice recorder provided
information suggesting a criminal act may be responsible, officials say.
Cannabis Party’s Parliamentary Hopes Growing The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party is heartened by an internet poll that
shows it comfortably over the 5% threshold to get into parliament. Xtra’s internet poll, which has had over 13,000
votes, shows ...
Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said it was absurd for the Treasurer to claim increasing interest rates were
simply a sign of the success of the National Party's economic policies.
Officials in New Zealand want to capture and kill, as illegal pests, imported Australian frogs, while in South Australia
doctor's have discovered frogs may be the key to curing a wide-range of human ills. It's a strange world. John Howard
reports.
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
The Reserve Bank confirmed today that New Zealand has now entered a new era of strong and sustained export-led economic
growth, Treasurer Bill English said today.
Today's interest rate rise shows National's scare campaign that an Alliance Labour government would increase interest
rates is dishonest, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says.
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 Forest and Bird Protection Society is concerned that Frodo and his hairy hobbit friends with their attendant large
film crews may severely damage sensitive landscapes in the Kahurangi National Park and Kepler Mire, an ancient string
bog in Fiordland.
The other day, I was idly contemplating the Wellington Central electorate, where National has withdrawn to allow ACT's
Richard Prebble a better run at himself, and the Alliance has withdrawn to allow Labour's Marion Hobbs a better run at
himself ...
.....and much much more...