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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.
Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes delivered a stinging defeat to Paul Cayard's AmericaOne on a white-capped Hauraki Gulf today as one boat in
each of four other matches retired with gear problems.
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house
…enjoy.
Italy's Prada Team is proving an almost unstoppable force in the Americas Cup challenger series races on Auckland's
Hauraki Gulf.
The Act Party has two income tax policies. One is to "move to a flatter tax rate structure" with "a top rate of company
and personal income tax of no more than 20%" ("Tax - A Fair Tax System For Jobs and Growth", 3 November media release,
Rodney ...
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.
Lights…. cameras….crane… are we ready…..Steady now...don’t mind the wind Jim...Nearer my god to thee...
Britain's labour government has unveiled its heaviest legislative programme yet, a package of 28 bills ranging from
tough reforms of the pension and benefits system to freedom of information. John Howard reports.
Scoop has a fine, unopened bottle of single malt whisky to whomever can correctly predict the election result.
If there is one thing you can say of the Green Party in this election, it is that they have run the cleanest campaign.
Despite barbs and ridicule from every main political party, including those who may eventually depend on their support
to form a government, ...
42 BELOW, New Zealand's first full strength premium vodka will be launched tonight at a special 'exhibition' for invited
guests at Wellington's 'infamous' Brava restaurant.
Only 15% of 139 developing countries had taken steps to fix Year 2000 computer date rollover problems warns the World
Bank. Don't expect global economic growth to continue. John Howard reports.
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.
There are eight days to go in the final campaign of the twentieth century. The campaign has been as dull as the issues
are important. Our two women leaders have refused to engage each other or the nation in a debate over our country's
future. It has ...
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.
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
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 ...
In light of recent controversy over dangerous links on political web sites, Prebble's Rebels has withdrawn a potentially
subversive link from their own site.
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.
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.