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Scoop Today - Yesterday's Top 20
Scoop's Top 20 yesterday was dominated by the America's cup and Hobbitton Pics...
(Scoop apologises for the delay in service this morning - we encountered a temporary technical glitch...)
1: Young
America Substitute Yacht
Approved
Americas Cup officials have given approval to the New York Yacht Club backed Young America team to race its substitute boat USA 58.
2:
Americas
Cup Report - Who Won, Who Lost, And
More
It was like a replay of the sinking of OneAustralia off San Francisco in 1995. The New York Yacht Club's Young America yacht split almost in two while racing in heavy wind today.
3:
Scoop
Images: Hobbit Town Photos Mystery
Solved
The two photos above one apparently of the same scene - appear to confirm that the Hobbit Town photos published this morning by the Dominion are indeed real - even if they do look a little too toy townish.
4:
Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG
END!
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
5:
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.
6:
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.
7:
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 ...
8:
Rankin
on Thursday - A Government of the Centre?
There are times I worry about Winston; Peters that is, not that notorious party hopper Churchill. Every time he says "MMP" I sense another percentage point of anti-MMP sentiment. And when he talks about watertight coalition documents and talks ...
9:
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.
10:
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.
The Sydney Olympics Organisation (SOCOG) secretly withdrew 800,000 prime tickets after the public ballot had closed and diverted them to an exclusive premium ticket scheme for the rich, SOCOG this week admitted to an upper house Parliamentary enquiry. ...
12:
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.
13:
Shlip,
shlip, shlip ... the knives are
sharpening
National's decision to convene a mid campaign Caucus meeting is a sure sign of pre-election nervousness turning to blind panic, Labour MP Pete Hodgson said today.
14:
Election
predictions – Richard Prebble
Speech
This election is the most wide open in recent history. If you average the polls, the centre right and the left are neck and neck. Without doubt the final leaders' debate between Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark will be crucial.
15:
Will
Genetic Engineering feed the
starving
A certain Dennis Avery is in NZ saying amazing things about organic farming and world hunger which upsets me no end. Having spent since late 1992 working in countries where famine and disease are regular calendar features, what Mr. Avery stands for ...
16:
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….
17:
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:
18:
US
Vote Not To Pay $900 United Nations
Arrears
The US Congress has voted for a budget bill not to pay its $900 million arrears to the UN possibly leaving the country without a General Assembly vote come 31 December. Clinton has vetoed the bill but loss of a US vote in the UN could be positive particularly ...
19:
Magnificent
Seven Can't Defend Us
"Current NZ defence policy relies on the UN responding to threats to NZ security. But this may not be anything we can rely on," warns Libertarianz Defence Spokesman Robert Winefield.
20:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
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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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