The 70-metre-long tapestry depicting the conquest of England by Norman invaders in the 11th century is creating excitement in Britain after France confirms it will loan the historically significant piece.

Sweet Country — a film that competed at last year's Venice Film Festival where it won a special jury prize — sees Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton artfully tackle the Western, a genre well suited to examining issues of race and colonisation.

A-list actors are distancing themselves from Woody Allen and his next film, heightening questions about the future of the prolific 82-year-old filmmaker in a Hollywood newly sensitive to allegations of sexual misconduct.

Made up of a core group of close friends who had worked together in the youth circus scene, the acrobats ran away to the circus and formed their own company in 2009.

The 46-year-old Irish singer's cause of death will be investigated by a coroner after London police — who earlier described her sudden death as "unexplained" — say their investigations have found nothing suspicious.