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Scoop Today - Yesterday's Top 20
Scoop's top 20 rating items yesterday were...
1: Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer
House?
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house …enjoy.
2:
Hobbits
Not Welcome in Kahurangi National
Park
The Forest and Bird Protection Society is concerned that Frodo and his hairy hobbit friends with their attendant large film crews may severely damage sensitive landscapes in the Kahurangi National Park and Kepler Mire, an ancient string bog in Fiordland.
3:
Vandalism
Campaign Against Prebble
Escalates
Richard Prebble's electorate office window had a rock thrown through it last Thursday night as a campaign of vandalism against ACT in Wellington Central appears to be escalating.
4:
EgyptAir
Voice recorder 'Not
Conclusive'
The cockpit voice recorder from doomed EgyptAir flight 990 has been plucked from the planes wreckage on the Atlantic ocean floor but as yet it has yielded no conclusive information.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble, responding to David Jacobs’ extraordinary offensive and misleading statement said today “ I am shocked by the intemperate personal abuse in Labour’s Epsom candidate David Jacobs’ attack on Rodney Hide, myself and the ACT ...
6:
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….
7:
Kevin
Roberts Speech: Risk, Risk
Anything!
Kevin Roberts address to the Graeme Bringans Education Trust Dinner, Auckland, November 12, 1999. See also... http://www.nzedge.com .
8:
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.
9:
Unpaid
US UN Dues - The Abortion
Concession
Officials of the White House and Congress met today (NZDT) in an attempt to break the budget logjam in a deal over overseas abortion funding and US$1 billion in outstanding UN dues owed by the US. John Howard reports.
10:
National's
campaign of lies continues
Labour Deputy Leader Michael Cullen says the increasing desperation of the National Party's campaign is shown by the fact they've now resorted to outright lies in their advertising.
11:
HARD
NEWS 13/11/99 - Arse and Letters
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, if a week is a long time in politics, time appears to stretch even further under a general election campaign.
12:
Ken
Shirley Talks About Our Nuclear
Sun
Kia ora, we have received the following transcript of comments made by Ken Shirley MP, Deputy Leader, ACT New Zealand at a public meeting in Westport. Many thanks to Peter Russell (Native Forest Action) for taping , transcribing and sending us this ...
13:
Americas
Cup - Japan's Azura Breaks Mast
The Japanese Americas Cup challenger yacht Azura has broken its mast. The breakage occured during racing on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf this afternoon, in a match race against AmericaOne.
14:
We
must save Epsom from the extreme
right
Labour candidate for Epsom David Jacobs today called upon the voters of Epsom to resist the lure of Act and its populist right-wing candidate Rodney Hide.
15:
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.
16:
ENTER
THE GREAT SCOOP ELECTION
COMPETITION!
Scoop has a fine, unopened bottle of single malt whisky to whomever can correctly predict the election result.
17:
Print
Journalists Irrelevant Ego-Trippers -
Garner
Stuart Garner, head of the US giant Thomson Newspaper Group, has taken a swipe at print journalists saying they take "ego trips" and newspapers frequently aren't compelling and useful to people. John Howard reports.
18:
National
and Act agree on exporting
jobs
National and Act are using election campaign billboards made in Australia.National and Act's vinyl billboards were made by Metro Media in Brisbane Australia.
19:
Greens
Look Set to go to Parliament
The Green Party look set to propel Labour into office after a poll showed party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons opening up an eight point lead over National’s Murray McLean.
20:
Scoop
Today - The Latest From The Campaign
Trail
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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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