Scoop: Top Scoops

Tuesday, 3 October 2000, 4:08 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TOP SCOOPS
Another Petrol Price Drop, But No Relief On Diesel
Scoop Is In The House: Todays Questions & Answers
Trevor Mallard Welcomes Home Our Olympians
Antarctica Ozone Hole Biggest Ever
Reconciliation More Than Just A Word, Say Christian Leaders
Drug Programme Doesn’t Meet Vatican Approval
Scoop Business: Telecom And Clear Settle
Internal Assessment In School Behind Poor Olympic Showing
Broadcasting History Launched On Talkback Anniversary
Beer And Sausages All Round, Its Auckland’s First Oktoberfest
Scoop World: Threatened Birds Of The World
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES

TOP SCOOPS

Another Petrol Price Drop, But No Relief On Diesel

- BP has dropped petrol price by 2 cents a litre on the back of lower refined petrol prices - the second drop in less than a week. See... BP Shaves A Further 2 Cents Off The Petrol Price [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0010/S00013.htm

Scoop Is In The House: Todays Questions & Answers

- Today's Questions concerned the subjects of: East Timor – Economic Growth Or Not – ERMA Maori Committee – Lower Dollar And Grocery Prices - Poverty – Samoan RNZAF Transport Incident - Superannuation – ERA Launch Party – Medical Professionals - ... See... SCP HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 3 October [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0010/S00011.htm

Trevor Mallard Welcomes Home Our Olympians

- On behalf of the Government and the people of New Zealand, it is my pleasure to welcome you home. See... Welcome Home for the New Zealand Olympic Team [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00030.htm

Antarctica Ozone Hole Biggest Ever

- NIWA measurements of atmospheric ozone above Arrival Heights, near Scott Base in Antarctica, have reached the lowest values recorded. See... Record Low Ozone At Scott Base [1] . See also ...Green Reaction [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0010/S00006.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00040.htm

Reconciliation More Than Just A Word, Say Christian Leaders

- Two weeks after Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic cauldron in Sydney and sparked the hope of Australia's Aborigines for reconciliation, a popular rock band performing in Sunday's closing ceremonies supplied the word that many Australians longed to hear: sorry. See... Sorry Too Simplistic, Christian Leaders Warn [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0010/S00010.htm

Drug Programme Doesn’t Meet Vatican Approval

- Vatican decree this month effectively bans the Australian Sisters of Charity from participating in an 18-month trial of Australia's first medically supervised injecting service for heroin addicts. See... Vatican Bans Catholic Workers From Drug Programme [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0010/S00009.htm

Scoop Business: Telecom And Clear Settle

- CLEAR Communications and Telecom New Zealand have agreed on a Relationship Package, which the two companies describe as a “comprehensive clean slate” for the next 12 months. See... Telecom And Clear Agree On Clean Slate [1] . But the deal, which provides Clear with wholesale access to JetStream and rules out such access for the two companies' competitors until at least next year, will undoubtedly be seen as an attempt to upstage the recommendations of the Ministerial Inquiry into Telecommunications, which are to be released tomorrow morning. More ... [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0010/S00014.htm
[2] - http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/82FF09446F3A7EABCC25696C00778254!opendocument

Internal Assessment In School Behind Poor Olympic Showing

- “Internal assessment and refusing to pay expenses for sports coaches has led to a decline in sports in secondary schools that is now showing up in medals tables,” said Concerned Teachers spokesperson Peter Calvert. See... Internal Assessment Behind Medal Table Decline [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0010/S00001.htm

Broadcasting History Launched On Talkback Anniversary

- The Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt will launch a new history of New Zealand broadcasting at Parliament Buildings tomorrow, 4 October 2000. 'Voice and Vision' will conclude Patrick Day's history of New Zealand broadcasting. See... Forty Years Since Talkback Was Born In Masterton [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0010/S00005.htm

Beer And Sausages All Round, Its Auckland’s First Oktoberfest

- Aotea Square will come alive on Saturday October 7th with the city's First large-scale Oktoberfest celebration of beer, food and music. See... Playhouse Pub Oktoberfest [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0010/S00003.htm

Scoop World: Threatened Birds Of The World

- Cambridge, UK, 26th September, 2000 -- Threatened Birds of the World, the most authoritative and comprehensive assessment ever published on the status of the world's threatened bird species, will be launched next month by H.M. Queen Noor of Jordan. See... Queen Noor To Launch Threatened Birds Of The World [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0010/S00006.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES

- CZECHOSLOVAKIA - Torture In Czech Republic - Call To Action [1] - FIJI - Law Crackdown Planned On Unions [2] and Retired Publisher, Opposition Call For Treason [3] - SOLOMON ISLANDS - Reports Highlight Militant Threats To Journalist [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0010/S00014.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0010/S00012.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0010/S00009.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0010/S00008.htm

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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