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Scoop Today - Weekend Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop over the weekend were...
1: Scoop
Images: A Misty Ruapehu Film
Set
The following pictures were taken at Whakapapa ski-field on Mt Ruapehu at the weekend. Peter Jackson's film crews have been filming scenes for the Lord of The Rings trilogy of films there recently.
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Ringswatch:
Early Snow Causes Problems For
PJ
The following report of recent happenings in the Ruapehu area - the site of the latest filming of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy - was sent to Scoop by a recent visitor to the area…
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HARD
NEWS 28/4/00 - Drunks, Puppets and
Monkeys
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... bear with me while I do my therapy. One of the reasons I keep on with Hard News is that it gives me the chance to shout at people who piss me off. It relieves me of the need to bore my friends and family with the details.
4:
A
Week Of It – Rumbles In The
Jungle
The earth has replaced the wind as the major buffeter of the capital in the last fortnight, with recent midnight jolts reminding Wellingtonians they are sitting targets for the next big one.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
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Scoop
Images: Lord Of The Rings Preview
Highlights
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.
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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: Greenpeace Tests Radioactive
Waste
The following three images show the Greenpeace operation to test waste from Cogema's nuclear reprocessing plant discharge at Raz Blanchard. Greenpeace discovered alarmingly high levels of radioactivity during its tests and has called for an end to discharges ...
8:
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.
9:
Scoop
Images: Mayday Rain In
Ethiopia
As protestors gather around the Western World in the cause of improving the lot of their fellow disadvantaged citizens of Planet Earth, clouds are gathering over the Horn of Africa promising deliverance of a different kind.
10:
Quake
Shakes Wellington Again
At 9.15pm last night a 5.5 richter magnitude quake centered 60km South of Patea was felt in Wellington.
11:
NZEDGE.COM
– NZ In The World Media
Greetings. Today in MEDIA http://www.nzedge.com/media we have 40 new stories from the international online media about New Zealanders flexing their edge around the globe: Fleur Adcock and Marie Clay in England, the late Len Lye in Paris, Richard ...
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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.
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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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Inland
Revenue Mess Predicted
The ACT Party warned Parliament that the removal of tax returns would work against taxpayers, ACT leader Richard Prebble said today.
15:
Scoop
Images: Bats Comedy Festival
Lineup
Promotional photos from six of the comedy festival productions presently underway at Bats Theatre as part of the Laugh Festival. For more information on these shows see... Bats Theatre: International Laugh! Festival 2000 .
16:
A
Trojan Horse - Free Trade With
Singapore
As Prime Minister Helen Clark arrives in Singapore, the proposed free trade agreement she has gone there to discuss is analysed in a Q&A format by Professor Jane Kelsey.
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HARD
NEWS 14/4/00 - No Laughing
Matter
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... some weeks the headlines are not kind to news commentators. There are precious few laughs in the likes of the cervical screening inquiry, which seeks to trawl over one man's disastrous misreading of test results over the span ...
18:
Latest
Update Of Mayday2k Contact And Action
List
The latest update of the Mayday 2000 - Global Day of Action, Resistance and Carnival - contact list. Chockfull of links, email newsgroups, and sources of information on the global protests due to kick of Monday....
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Feral
Coasters Considering New “True Labour"
Party
Incensed that a Labour Prime Minister would call them "fairly feral," and comparing them to lynch mobs in places like Kentucky, West Coasters are now talking about the thing they really understand, forming a new political party likely to be ...
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Scoop
Images: Show Me The Money
The latest New Zealand new technology IPO eVentures hasn't been put off by recent ructions on the NasDaq. Today representatives of overseas backers News Limited and Softbank fronted to media and brokers in Wellington with eVenture's onshore stakeholder, ...
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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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