The top 29 rating items this weekend are....
Dates: 20/Nov/1999, 21/Nov/1999
Thursday's racing started under heavy conditions, the wind blowing from the North at near 20 knots, the seas heavy with
a two metre swell. What followed was a day of postponements, withdrawals, penalties and an outstanding display of
aggressive ...
Italy's Prada Americas Cup challenger team has won its tenth match of the Louis Vuitton Cup in Round Robin. Prada beat
the French yacht Le Défi by 3 minutes 49 seconds. The win followed a cheer session between the crew of Luna Rossa and
world acclaimed ...
Today's racing brought a change of conditions from the past two days, heavy Northerlies giving way overnight to gentle
South winds blowing from 7-13 knots. The winds were shifty however, both in velocity and direction, and the afterguards
earned their ...
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house
…enjoy.
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.
There is a real risk in placing too much trust in the polls, however this week definite and consistent trends suggest
New Zealand is preparing to vote for a new government. Jonathan Hill writes.
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today responded to the NBR story (19/11/99) alleging an
outstanding New Zealand First debt.
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.
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.
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 New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, said today that the Christchurch Press is using dirty tricks and
sheer malice to malign the local candidate, Dr Andrew Gin.
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
The latest National Business Review-Compaq opinion poll, taken by UMR Insight from November 11-16 on a sample of 750
people, gives Labour-Alliance a theoretical 10-seat majority over a National-led coalition in a general election. The
poll gives Labour ...
The McGillicuddy Serious Party today announced it's website, little more than a week before the election.
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, ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched "Echelon Watch" a website designed to prompt worldwide
governmental investigations into the global electronic surveillance system called Echelon. John Howard reports.
This morning’s (Friday) Herald DigiPoll shows the Greens breaking the five per cent threshold for the first time this
campaign.
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.
Italy's Prada Team is proving an almost unstoppable force in the Americas Cup challenger series races on Auckland's
Hauraki Gulf.
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 ...
The latest TV3 CM Research Poll shows the left breaking away from the right, with Labour able to form a government
without the help of Winston Peters.
THE LEFT LEADERS FRONT UP ON THE FINAL WHITTAKER'S GOOD HONEST ELECTION CAMPAIGN REPORT SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER 9.30PM
Top Scoops galore, a convergence of polls and the latest from the waves and the hustings.... Scoop has it all.
"Showing his ability to bend both ways, Richard Prebble says one week that he will never support legalising cannabis,
and the next that cannabis use should be 'reviewed'," observes Libertarianz Spokesman Peter Cresswell.
How much longer do we have to endure the shame of having asylum seekers hunger striking while locked up inside Mt Eden
Prison? A long time yet if today’s media release from Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere is anything to go by.
Frankly the minister’s ...
The Alliance announced today an amnesty on penalties for unpaid student loan debts for those who have fled overseas to
escape the student loans scheme.
In a fit of pique, upset that his Green counterpart is getting more publicity, Bernard Darnton, Libertarianz spokesman
for law and order and leader of Wild Libz - The New Freeland Liberation Army, today announced his plan to burn down the
houses of his ...
Lights…. cameras….crane… are we ready…..Steady now...don’t mind the wind Jim...Nearer my god to thee...
Health authorities in parts of Romania have started fitting ambulances with taxi meters because of a shortage of cash.
People who are dead or in a coma are exempt. John Howard reports.