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London, Apr 2: One of the last letters written aboard the Titanic has resurfaced 102 years after the doomed ship met with its tragic end.

The letter was penned by mother and daughter Esther and Eva Hart on Sunday, April 14 1912 - just hours before the liner sank and recalls a "wonderful journey", the Mirror reported.

The letter was found in the pocket of husband Benjamin's sheepskin coat which he gave to his wife to keep warm before he went down with the ship.

Another lost letter from the Titanic that turned up decades later was written by ship's doctor John Edward Simpson.

The letter on headed Titanic paper, which was written to his mother in Belfast, was posted from the ship's last port of call in Cobh,.

Screen Australia is investing $5.4 million in six feature films from directors Gillian Armstrong,. Jeremy Sims and Paul Cox and rising filmmakers Kim Farrant, Mark Grentell and Alexs Stadermann.

Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving will star in Farrant.s Strangerland, a mystery drama about a couple whose lives unravel after their two teenage children go missing in the harsh Australian desert.

Michael Caton and Jacki Weaver are attached to star in Sims. Last Cab to Darwin, a comedy-drama about a dying man.s final journey based on Reg Cribb's play Last Cab to Darwin.

Caton will play Rex, a terminally ill cab driver who drove 3,000 km from his home in Broken Hill to Darwin in the early 1990s in hopes of taking advantage of the Northern Territory's voluntary euthanasia laws. Ningali Lawford has been cast as Polly, an Aboriginal woman who is Rex.s next door neighbour and occasional lover,...