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The top 20 rating items on Scoop over the weekend (Hobbits excluded) were...
1: Scoop
Images: Who Was That Tall
Girl!
Kiwi-born and Amsterdam based stilt walker Emily Buttle wowing crowds last weekend at the Cuba St Festival. Buttle has been on a flying visit to the capital.
2:
900
Mountain Bikers Ride Giant Karapoti
Classic
Nine hundred riders will compete in the 16th annual Giant Karapoti Classic mountain bike race on Sunday, north of Upper Hutt.
3:
HARD
NEWS 2/3/01 - From Dubious to Dangerous
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... anybody else found themselves saying a quiet thanks they don't live in Europe right now? As foot and mouth disease courses around the British Isles, putting paid to the ebb and flow of national life, living in the world's most ...
4:
Lindsay
Perigo: Go Away, Mr
Hawkins!
Today's editorial was a cinch. All I had to do was copy & paste a magnificent letter written to the Minister of Police. Its writer forwarded it to me & said I could use it as I saw fit. It is self-contained & self-explanatory. I commend ...
5:
Howard's
End: Britain's Awful Luck
Britons and Europeans are starting to ask that they've done to offend the heavens as a catalogue of dire warnings and a plague of Biblical proportions seems to have descended upon them. I'm glad I live in paradise. John Howard writes.
6:
Scoop
Rugby Images: Oo! Ah! Jonah!
Hurricane winger Jonah Lomu walks through a few Bulls on his way to score during tonight's victory for the home side at Wellington's WestpacTrust stadium. Photographs by Mark Graham - 52@clear.net.nz .
7:
Animal
Liberation Front Press Release
In breaking with the normal way the Animal Liberation Front operates, we are making the following public statement in the form of this Press Release.
8:
Scoop
Images: Trevor Mallard &
Colleagues
Education Minister Trevor Mallard with, clockwise from top left, George Hawkins, Lianne Dalziel, Parekura Horomia and Phil Goff. Photographs by Mark Graham - 52@clear.net.nz
9:
SHARP
PRANK: Fighter Aircraft Warranty
Card
Thank you for purchasing a McDonnell Douglas military aircraft. In order to protect your new investment, please take a few moments to fill out the warranty registration card below.
10:
CRUSAFIED:
Blues beat champion Crusaders.
SUPER 12 rugby spluttered into the second round with a dour battle at Eden Park that saw the reigning champions - the Crusaders - toppled 17-12 by the hometown Blues.
The National Party's spokesperson on Defence cannot be taken seriously when he talks of boosting Defence spending, the Minister of Defence Mark Burton said.
12:
Feedback
To Sludge #51: Airways Treason
The Sludge Story on Airways, obviously written by another of the hundreds of "consultants" paid for with taxpayers' money by the increasingly desperate outgoing management and board of Airways, perpertuates a few myths. We would like to contribute to their ...
14:
BULLS
No Breeze for Hurricanes
SUPER 12 supporters were saved from sleep at WestpacTrust Stadium tonight when what had been a pedestrian game roared to life in the final 15 minutes with a stampeding Jonah Lomu try and a stirring comeback by the Bulls, who in the end were only edged ...
15:
Scoop
Images: Cuba St. Carnival (2)
More images from Saturday's Cuba Street Carnival parade in Wellington.
18:
Sludge
Report #51 – Whose Treason?
In this edition: Whose Treason? – Shooting The Messenger
19:
Insuring
Against An IT Computer Crisis
A new insurance product from The St. Paul, which is aimed at the IT industry, is likely to have huge potential benefits for software and hardware providers alike.
20:
Consultation
At A Standstill
Today the bank balances of every tertiary institution have increased to the advantage of Maori students. The Government has given every TEI a lump sum of money to develop support systems for Maori and Pacific students. Te Mana Akonga; the National Maori ...
21:
Law
Society Response To Mick Brown's CYFS
Review
MEDIA RELEASE FROM THE FAMILY LAW SECTION OF THE NEW ZEALAND LAW SOCIETY IN RESPONSE TO MICK BROWN’S REVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CYF SERVICES
22:
Keith
Rankin: Family Politics and Gender
Roles
As I intimated in this column (9 March), Muriel Newman's "Shared-Parenting" Bill has met with a political response. The government, in the form of Laila Harre (Minister of Women's Affairs), and the New Zealand Law Society, have used standard ...
23:
Massey
University Business Enterprise Centre -
PM
I am familiar with what the Enterprise Centre is being set up to achieve, and I am very enthusiastic about it.
HOBBIT
STORIES...
13: Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another View
16: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
17: Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The
Water
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