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Scoop Today - Easter Weekend Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop over the Easter Break were...
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Images: White Island Erupts!
Wow! White Island of the coast of the Bay of Plenty is now erupting and sprewing ash as far away as Whakatane. The crater lake has turned bright yellow.... these pictures were taken by scientists from the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Science ...
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Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was
Stirring
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.
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Scoop
Images: Liv Meets Some Smokin'
Ringwraiths
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.
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Scoop
Archive: NewsRoom ANZAC
Day
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Nelson
Global Protest against the WTO
Street theatre in Trafalgar Street, Nelson is scheduled to commence at mid-day on Tuesday 30th November starting from Wakatu Sq. and going up Trafalgar St to the 1903 site.
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Reports
Damn Legislation – Says
Prebble
The critical reports from Treasury on the Employment Relations Bill back up feedback from employers in New Zealand's main centres, ACT leader Richard Prebble said today.
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Scoop
Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet
Movie star Liv Tyler takes a break from a hectic schedule of filming for the Lord of the Rings trilogy earlier this year for a spot of shopping on Wellington's Willis St - photo Kevin Stent of the Sunday Star Times.
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Context.Co.Nz
- Updated News In Context
General News The Bubble Has Just Begun to Burst . The worst day & the worst week on NASDAQ in history. Go Are the Tech Stocks bouncing back? Go It’s not cricket!! Go Who cares? Go We could have the leisure society if we wanted it. World Affairs ...
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Scoop
Images: ANZAC Day In East
Timor
New Zealand serviceman in East Timor commemorated ANZAC day with traditional dawn parades in Dili, Suai and in the Company field locations. This ANZAC day was of special significance for those attending the parades in East Timor as, once again, New Zealand ...
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Shared
parenting as a divisive political
football
Last night I was stopped from speaking and asked to leave at a public meeting on Shared Parenting dominated by the Act MP Muriel Newman.
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Inflation:
A Decrease In The Value Of Money?
This month the latest inflation rate was announced two days before the scheduled announcement by the Reserve Bank to increase the OCR (official cash [interest] rate) to 6%. The CPI inflation rise, 0.7% for the period from mid-November to mid-February, ...
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Scoop
Archive: Education News: Sport - there's no escaping
it.
Then, we had the Rugby World Cup with its bleary-eyed, post-match mornings, and those staffroom sweepstakes inevitably won by someone who thought a flanker was part of a horse.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/2f/d7/199911031041.59e231e1.html
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‘A Living Mural’ & One Woman ‘Frida’
Show
With VIVA LA VIDA moving into its final week, City Gallery Wellington presents a week of events beginning after the Easter Break. The Ambassador of Mexico, a Maori actress playing Frida Kahlo, and a group of musicians will all feature at the gallery.
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Open
Letter to New Zealanders
This first ANZAC Day of the new millennium allows us to acknowledge and remember those who fought for freedom, to honour those who lost their lives doing so and to learn the lessons of history so we don’t repeat them.
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PM
Speech At Official State Dinner
Turkey
It is an honour for me to be the first New Zealand Prime Minister to make an official visit to Turkey. I thank the Turkish Government for the warmth of the welcome we have received.
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Scoop
Images: Secret Police Caught In The
Act!
The following message comes from the a16-international-planning list serve,it concerns a photo a protestor took of a man in plain-clothes who was beating him – quite a startling image. Initially the protestor thought it was an incident in road-rage. ...
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Fletcher
Challenge Forests Share
Price
AUCKLAND, 20 April 2000 – In response to the 14 cent increase in the price of the Fletcher Challenge Forests share, to 80 cents, over the past two days, the Chief Executive Officer of Fletcher Challenge Limited, Mr Michael Andrews, advised the ...
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Fight
Not Over On Lowering Drinking
Age
New Zealand First MP Ron Mark has slammed other Christchurch MPs for voting to lower the drinking age from twenty to eighteen last night, but warns that the fight is not over.
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Rialto
Film Club
If you can translate this text message into proper English, then you could win one of two Vodafone Prepay mobiles:
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Scoop
Images: LOTR Preview Highlights
(2)
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
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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