US-based explorers who voyaged to a tiny South Pacific island seeking to solve conclusively the 1937 disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart have determined that an object they suspected was wreckage from ​her plane was a cluster of washed-up trees.

Three men charged with an act intended to cause grievous harm have been acquitted after the Suva High Court found insufficient evidence linking them to the alleged assault, while the first accused has been ordered to answer the charge.

Actors Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard have both played eccentric characters before but say their new film, in which Skarsgard transforms into an Adonis woven from wicker, ​is “in quirkiness levels, quite high”.

The case involving a suspended police officer and his partner has been adjourned to next month, with the defence yet to file a bail application.

The Rarawai Sugar Mill will terminate crushing next Wednesday.