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Scoop Today - Yesterday's Top 20
Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Americas
Cup Report - Who Won, Who Lost, And
More
It was like a replay of the sinking of OneAustralia off San Diego in 1995. The New York Yacht Club's Young America yacht split almost in two while racing in heavy wind today.
2:
Americas
Cup Challenger Series Full
Report
Disaster struck the New York Yacht Club's challenge for the Americas Cup today as Young America split almost in half in moderate seas on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. Here too is a full report on team standings, points, who races who and the weather.
3:
Scoop
Images: Dom's Stale Hobbit Photos Are
Fake!
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 ...
4:
Scoop
Images: Where Bilbo And Frodo Live –
Really!
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.
5:
Left
Break Away - 13 per cent Between Main
Parties
A TV 3 CM Research Poll shows National slumping in support down five per cent to 28 per cent with Labour gaining four per cent to 41 per cent.
6:
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.
7:
Dominion
Denies Fishy Photos Are Fake
So far the Dominion is sticking behind its photos of Hobbiton published this morning. Scoop however thinks they remain rather fishy looking.
8:
Prebble
Spits Dummy Over Arts
Interview
The wheels temporarily came off the ACT machine over the weekend when National Radio played a pre-recorded interview with party leader Richard Prebble on ACT’s views on funding for the arts. Jonathan Hill writes.
9:
International
Socialist Conference in
Parliament
The challenges of globalisation are on the agenda of leaders from more than 140 nations attending the three-day Socialist International conference in Paris. John Howard reports.
10:
Americas
Cup Challenger Series RR2
Begins
The second Round Robin of the Louis Vuitton Cup (the Challenger Selection Series for the XXX America's Cup) started Today.
11:
Poll
Shock For Prebble in Wellington
Central
Last nights TV One Colmar Brunton Poll of Wellington Central has revealed a cliffhanger race for the seat of parliament with ACT leader Richard Prebble on 47 per cent and Labour’s Marian Hobbs on 48 per cent of the electorate vote.
12:
U.S.
Relations With NZ At Post 1985
"Highpoint"
Today the US Senate Foreign Affairs committee voted to approve a new Ambassador to NZ. Former Senator Carol Moseley-Braun now awaits only a final vote in the senate to confirm her appointment.
13:
OneRing.Net:
That Photo a FAKE?!
ID4 has sent me some startling news! This may not be accurate, but ID4 does have some expierence in the field of CGI art, he first sent me this:
14:
Oh,
to be in England - Upton On
Line
Life in New Zealand is so much more difficult these days than it is in England. At least that's what our English friend Dr Cullen must be thinking.
15:
Fitzsimons
Edges Ahead in Latest Coromandel
Poll
The latest TV One Colmar Brunton poll of the Coromandel seat shows Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons nosing ahead of encumbent National MP Murray McLean.
16:
$100
Billion Lawsuit Against US For Cuban
Embargo
For the eighth consecutive year in a row the United Nations have called for the United States to end the 40 year old economic embargo against Cuba. Jonathan Hill reports.
17:
Scoop
Images: Bree Is Spooky At
Night….
Having seemingly scored the internet Scoop of the week with his pictures of BREE AT FIRST LIGHT Scoop contacted the Hobbit who scooped the world and asked him if he had any more snaps from his visit to Bree….
18:
National
billboards are an insult, says
Jacobs
Labour candidate for Epsom David Jacobs last night told the Epsom Rotary Club that he is angry about National party billboards with a picture of Mrs Shipley telling New Zealanders to “value your country” by voting National.
19:
Scoop
Images: Clyde Quay Face Off In Wgtn
Central
On the night a poll was released showing Wellington Central to be a knife edge battle – with Labour’s Marion Hobbs on 48% to Richard Prebbles 47% - Clyde Quay School was the venue for another round of bait the candidates.
20:
Govt.
turns decent NZers into criminals
The Government's mishandling of the new drivers' licence regime has turned nearly quarter of a million New Zealanders into 'criminals', Labour transport spokesperson Harry Duynhoven said today.
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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