Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen turned the tables on Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton to set the pace in second practice at the Canadian Grand Prix.

The Finn was 0.215 seconds clear of Hamilton, fastest in the first session, and 0.265secs quicker than team-mate and title leader Sebastian Vettel.
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas was fourth quickest, 0.11secs slower than Vettel.
Fernando Alonso, back after racing in the Indianapolis 500, was seventh after more Honda engine problems.
The top two teams appeared evenly matched, not only on their performance runs on the ultra-soft tyres, on which they set their fastest lap times, but also on the race-simulation runs later in the session.
Bottas and Raikkonen were the fastest of the drivers who did their long runs on the ultra-soft tyres and on their average times the Mercedes driver was quicker by a little less than 0.1secs.
Hamilton also ran on the ultra-soft tyre and was also 0.1secs slower than Bottas, although he had a disjointed run, featuring lots of slow laps, to the extent that it motivated Vettel, who was following him, to complain about his driving.
Vettel said: "I'm stuck behind Hamilton who is making mistakes and backing off."
But the four-time world champion played down the incident after practice, saying he knew Hamilton was just trying to get a clear lap.
Vettel said: "It was slippery and easy to do mistakes. I spun twice today.  Mercedes looked good today but I think it will be very, very close, more or less like we all expect it, which is good."
Hamilton added: "The car is back to normal [after his struggles at the last race in Monaco] but it is still weak in a lot of areas and the Ferrari is still the quickest and with everything I am pushing currently, I can't beat the Ferrari's time."
Two-time world champion Alonso's engine suffered a hydraulic leak after just one timed lap in the first session and missed the first hour of the second while Honda fixed the problem.
He did get out in time to do 17 laps and a couple of runs at the end of the session.
Team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne had a relatively trouble-free day but was only 19th fastest, his fastest time set on the slowest 'soft' tyre after he spun on his run on the quickest ultra-soft.
During the first session, Alonso was told by his engineer to stop on track. He pointed out that was he already at the hairpin, the last corner before the pit entry and it was easier to come back to the pits, but was ordered to stop.
He flung the impact-protection foam out of his cockpit as he climbed out and was given a standing ovation and cheers by the crowd in the grandstands.
"We are used to it," he told reporters on the way back to the pits.
The failure came as McLaren executive director Zak Brown again said that Honda had to up their game if the partnership was to have a future.
Two days after saying he had "serious concerns" about Honda, and a day after Alonso indicated he could leave McLaren at the end of the year if they were not winning by September, Brown told BBC Sport: "The plan right now is to have the Honda in the back of the car (in 2018) but some things need to happen between now and then for us to have the confidence we can be at the front of the field next year.
"We need to get competitive and show regular signs that we are getting competitive.
"Right now, we're not racing well, not finishing races and that can't happen any more.
"We are starting to work on the 2018 car so we need to make any decisions that impact 2018 by the summer break. Something needs to change.
"If you keep doing the same thing, you are going to get the same result. Maybe take some risks, do things they wouldn't normally do. You can't keep doing the same thing and expect things to change."
Asked if they had been discussing a customer engine supply with Mercedes, Brown said: "We have a plan B, a Plan C. We have some plans."
It was also a difficult Friday for Red Bull. Max Verstappen's car stopped on track with a technical problem causing an eight-minute red flag delay with 20 minutes of the second session remaining and ended up fifth quickest.
Team-mate Daniel Ricciardo suffered an engine problem early in the second session and was only 14th fastest.


Newcastle Falcons have signed France international centre Maxime Mermoz, who will join the club in the summer.

Mermoz, 30, only joined Leicester on 1 February, providing short-term cover for injured pair Manu Tuilagi and Matt Toomua.
Falcons director of rugby Dean Richards says the signing is "a major statement of intent" from the club.
He added: "We are delighted that a player of such proven calibre is keen to play a key role."
Mermoz has won the French Top 14 title with three different teams and lifted the European Champions Cup twice with Toulon, as well as representing France 35 times - including in the 2011 World Cup final.
"It is no coincidence he has won major trophies with every club he has been at," said Richards.
"He is a very intelligent centre who runs great lines, he has fantastic handling ability and his understanding of the game is first class."
Mermoz scored his first try for Tigers in Saturday's 34-9 win over Gloucester.
"The fact that he will spend the back half of this season with Leicester Tigers is ideal, in the sense that he will already be accustomed to Premiership rugby by the time he arrives with us in the summer, and we are excited by what he will bring to the group," Richards added.
"The fact we have been able to attract a player of his standing in the game says a lot about the regard in which the Falcons are held at the moment."


Goals Soccer Centres has said it has "turned the corner" following a strong second half to its financial year.

The East Kilbride-based five-a-side football company saw group sales increase by 1.3% to Â£33.4m in the 12 months to the end of December.
The firm said its performance had been aided by a modernisation programme, which included upgrading 136 pitches.
Last year Goals launched a new strategic plan following a major review of its operations.
It was set up after the company reported its first annual loss in 12 years.
Goals also brought in leisure industry veteran Mark Jones to lead the company.
Goals currently operates 46 centres in the UK and one in California. It is planning to open a second US centre next month.
In a trading update, chairman Nick Basing said: "I am positive that we have turned the corner with this result.
"The new refocused strategy under strong new executive leadership is working and I hope momentum will build further in 2017."


A Kenyan politician being investigated for the raids in private farms in the Laikipia region has been found dead.

Thomas Minito's body was found floating in a river in Machakos, 50km (30 miles) from the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi.
Police say he was also being investigated for possible involvement in the shooting of Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallman.
The army has been deployed to the region to quell months of unrest.
A biting drought in the Laikipia region had forced herders to invade private farms to get fresh grass for their animals.
However, some analysts say local politicians incited pastoralists communities to invade private farms.
Minito was a member of the Baringo county assembly in the Rift Valley and had been reported missing earlier this week, according to media reports.
After examining the body, police said they suspect that he was murdered because he had a head wound.
His family is however yet to verify his identity.
Security forces have been conducting an operation in Laikipia county in central Kenya after a series of attacks on private lodges.
Tristan Voorspuy, an ex-British army officer, was killed in March when he went to inspect his lodge.
Pastoralists have accused police of killing hundreds of their animals in an attempt to drive them out of the farms.
The privately-owned Star newspaper reports that Minito was arrested last month and freed on bond for allegedly planning violence in Laikipia and neighbouring Baringo county in which several people were killed or injured and livestock were either stolen or killed.


US Secretary of State John Kerry is to visit the UK later this week for talks on the Syria crisis.

Mr Kerry's three-day visit will begin on Friday, and he will meet Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in London.
The US State Department says they will discuss "the ongoing crisis in Syria and refugee situation".
David Cameron has announced that the UK will accept up to 20,000 refugees from camps surrounding Syria, but Labour says that is "not enough".
The new arrivals to the UK will be offered five-year humanitarian visas, under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme, and their resettlement will be paid for in the first year from the overseas aid budget..
While in the UK, Mr Kerry will also hold talks with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed.
The EU is facing a huge influx of migrants, many fleeing conflict and poverty in countries including Syria, where a civil war has been raging since 2011.
Hundreds of migrants are currently stranded at the Serbia-Hungary border after the Hungarian government closed the frontier with a new razor-wire fence.
The US has allowed 1,500 Syrians to resettle since the start of the conflict, and the Obama administration has said a further 10,000 will be admitted over the next year.
According to the White House, the US is the single largest donor to the Syrian crisis response, having given over $4bn (Â£2.6bn) since it began.
But some, such as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's special representative on migration, have said money is not enough and more refugees must be allowed to resettle in countries like the US.


Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Donald Trump win the presidential election, a US intelligence report says.

The unclassified report says the Russian leader "ordered" a campaign aimed at influencing the election.
Moscow has not commented, but Russia has previously denied the claims.
After being briefed on the findings, Mr Trump stopped short of accusing Russia of interfering, saying only that the election outcome was not affected.
Mr Trump later went on to blame "gross negligence" by the Democratic National Committee for "allowing" the hacking to take place.
Following the report's findings, the US Department of Homeland Security announced that voting machines and other election databases would be classified as "critical infrastructure" and given more protection from cyber-attack.
The 25-page report says that the Kremlin developed a "clear preference" for Mr Trump.
Russia's goals, the document added, were to "undermine public faith" in the US democratic process and "denigrate" his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton, harming her electability and potential presidency.
"We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election," it said.
The unclassified version contained no detailed evidence of Mr Putin's alleged role, but it said Russia's actions included:
The report says Mr Putin liked Mr Trump because he had vowed to work with Russia and the Russian leader  had had "many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia, such as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder".
In contrast, Mr Putin had blamed Mrs Clinton for inciting anti-government protests in 2011 and early 2012 "and because he holds a grudge for comments he almost certainly saw as disparaging him".
The identities of the Russian agents allegedly directly responsible for the hack are known to US authorities but have not been released publicly, reports say, citing intelligence sources.
The document, a cut-down version of the classified report presented to President Barack Obama on Thursday, was released shortly after intelligence chiefs briefed Mr Trump on their findings.
Since winning the election on 8 November, Mr Trump has repeatedly questioned US intelligence claims of Russian hacking. In a statement after the briefing, the president-elect declined to single out Russia, but said he had "tremendous respect for the work and service done" by those in the US intelligence community.
"While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organisations including the Democrat National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election," he said.
"Whether it is our government, organisations, associations or businesses we need to aggressively combat and stop cyber-attacks. I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office."
It's an explosive report claiming the Russian government launched a massive, multi-faceted operation to sway the outcome of the US presidential election. After being briefed on the findings, Mr Trump issued a statement saying that the outcome of the election was not affected.
Tellingly he did not endorse the report's central finding that the Kremlin was behind the cyber campaign.
In his statement, he also expressed tremendous respect for US intelligence agencies. But in the lead-up to the meeting he was publicly scornful of American spies, in a manner completely unprecedented for a president-elect.
Earlier, he protested that the Russian hacking allegations were part of a political witch-hunt by political adversaries badly beaten, as he put it, in the election. He clearly thinks they're being used by his opponents to question the legitimacy of his presidency.
The meeting at Trump Tower involved National Intelligence Director Gen James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey.
Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated on 20 January, described their talks as "constructive".
US officials previously said the Kremlin was behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails. Russia denies the allegations, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Moscow was not the source for the site's mass leak of emails from the Democratic Party.
Shortly before his briefing with intelligence chiefs, Mr Trump dismissed the Russian hacking claims as a "political witch-hunt" by his opponents. He told the New York Times that US institutions had been the target of previous hacking attacks, but they had not received the same media attention.
Last week President Obama ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the US over the alleged hacking. Russia has said it will not reciprocate.


North Korea has agreed to suspend uranium enrichment, as well as nuclear and long-range missile tests, following talks with the US.

The US State Department said Pyongyang had also agreed to allow UN inspectors to monitor its reactor in Yongbyon to verify compliance with the measures.
In return, the US is finalising 240,000 tonnes of food aid for the North.
The move comes two months after Kim Jong-un came to power following the death of his father, Kim Jong-il.
Correspondents say the move could pave the way for the resumption of six-party disarmament negotiations with Pyongyang, which last broke down in 2009.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US still had "profound concerns" over North Korea, but welcomed the move as a "first step".
"On the occasion of Kim Jong-il's death, I said that it is our hope that the new leadership will choose to guide their nation onto the path of peace by living up to its obligations.
"Today's announcement represents a modest first step in the right direction."
North Korea confirmed the move in a foreign ministry statement released in Pyongyang.
The statement, carried by the KCNA news agency, said the measures were "aimed at building confidence for the improvement of relations" between the two countries, and said talks would continue.
"Both the DPRK [North Korea] and the US affirmed that it is in mutual interest to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, improve the relations between the DPRK and the US, and push ahead with the denuclearisation through dialogue and negotiations," it said.
By Adam BrookesBBC News, Washington
In Washington, the feeling among officials and analysts is that this is a useful but limited step forward.
Having inspectors on the ground in North Korea will, they believe, be very useful, but the optimism is coloured by a sense that promises like these have bloomed and withered many times in the past.
For Mr Obama, the agreement reduces the chances of a serious North Korean nuclear crisis during his re-election year.
And what do the North Koreans get? They will receive shipments of "nutritional assistance" for a hungry population weeks before a politically important celebration - the anniversary of Kim Il-sung's birth.
One crucial area not addressed, we're told: uranium enrichment facilities which may exist outside Yongbyon. US analysts remain worried that North Korea possesses as yet undiscovered centrifuges.
In all, the agreement - if it sticks - may help the chances of a resumption of comprehensive denuclearisation talk.
Yukiya Amano, director general of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the announcement was "an important step forward" and that inspectors stood ready to return to North Korea, Reuters reports.
Earlier, a senior US military official said the issue of food aid for North Korea was now linked to political progress - contradicting earlier policy.
The North has suffered persistent food shortages since a famine in the 1990s, and relies on foreign aid to feed its people.
North Korea agreed in 2005 to give up its nuclear ambitions in return for aid and political concessions, as part of a six-nation dialogue process involving the two Koreas, the US, China, Russia and Japan.
But progress on the deal was stop-start, and the agreement broke down in 2009.
Contact between the US and North Korea aimed at restarting the talks began in July 2011.
A meeting last week between US and North Korean officials in Beijing was the third round of talks aimed at exploring how to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.


Emergency services have evacuated a beach in Sussex after a suspected chemical leak.

People on the beach at Birling Gap reported painful, stinging eyes and breathing difficulties after a "mist" appeared.
Sussex Police said there was an "unknown haze coming in from the sea" affecting the East Sussex coastline.
Surrounding roads have been closed and people are being advised to avoid the area.
A police spokesman said the first report came in just before 17:00 BST where "up to 50 people had been affected by irritation to eyes and throats".
Officers said investigations were under way to find out the cause of the "haze".
The spokesman dismissed initial reports there had been a fire at Birling Gap, saying he did not know where they had come from.
It was definitely coming from the coast, he said - and previous incidents had involved stuff coming from industrial units in France.
Emergency services are treating people at Birling Gap and clearing the surrounding area.
People are being warned to stay away from the beaches from Birling Gap to Eastbourne and to keep doors and windows closed if living on the nearby coast.
Those caught in the mist say it felt like "being in a swimming pool with large quantities of chlorine".
Roy Page was on the beach when it happened and he told BBC South East Today: "It was like a mist coming down the beach from the west. Over a period of about 30-35 seconds I started to itch my eyes and so did other people.
"Within about two or three minutes my wife really started to itch badly because she has had some operations and they [her eyes] were stinging.
"Suddenly everyone around started getting up and either putting sea water on their eyes or dropping water on their eyes to clear it out."
The RNLI said a significant number of people on cliff tops had complaining of skin irritation, sore eyes and vomiting.
Concerns that people could be trapped on the beach saw the RNLI launch lifeboats, including one with a doctor on board.
A spokesman said: "We have been checking along the shoreline to try and ensure that everyone is safe."
He said a "plume" had drifted across the area bringing "some sort of substance" with it.
East Sussex Fire & Rescue urged people to "stay indoors with windows and doors shut and where possible, move away from the area".
It added: "If you feel any effects, such as stinging eyes, the South East Coast Ambulance Service is advising to wash with copious amounts of water.
"If you have any serious concerns then you should seek medical advice.
"People are urged not to go to hospital unless an absolute emergency."
It comes as large queues of people were seen outside Eastbourne hospital, where staff were wearing protective clothing.
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The National Trust, which owns the land and has a cafe and visitor centre there, said it was aware of the incident and was working with the emergency services.
People on Twitter have reported the mist smelled of chlorine.
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Mercedes have done an admirable job of handling Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg as fairly as possible during the course of two occasionally fractious Formula 1 seasons.

They have done so by running race strategy in such a way that reduces the chances of intra-team friction while giving each driver as much of a chance as possible to win the race.
As a team, that is exactly the right thing to do - maximise the collective result while also allowing the drivers to race freely, within certain parameters set by the team.
However, for the outside world, it can often lead to grands prix like that in Brazil last Sunday, where the drivers' ability to race and take risks in an attempt to beat their rival is compromised by the team's requirement to stick to a pre-determined strategy.
With one race of the season to go, though, wouldn't it be cool if Mercedes - now they have nothing to lose and both championships are tied up - just let their drivers and their respective engineers off the leash and ran a gloves-off race in Abu Dhabi next weekend?
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Just for one race, Mercedes could try a different approach to increase the entertainment value of a season finale which otherwise could lack a bit of interest - if we're honest.
The drivers and their respective engineers could conduct strategy for themselves. Normal rules apply - they can't crash into each other - but Hamilton and Rosberg run their own races, without being restricted by the wider team's wish.
If it was going to work, the drivers would have to accept responsibility for what happens - whether it be losing the race to their team-mate or even letting Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in.
Hamilton and Rosberg would have to accept that they would have the team to answer to if they embarrassed them. And they would have to be prepared to stand up afterwards and say: "We lost because of my choices, I accept that, it was a one-off just for the fans. The team would have won had we done it their way." And so on.
As long as that was understood, I can't see a reason not to let it happen.
It is important to understand why Mercedes have decided to run the two drivers' strategies in the way they do.
They have two drivers on equal-status contracts and they give preferential status to the car that is leading in a given race.
There are a whole load of assumptions that mean the drivers cannot simply be left to their own devices throughout the season.
Firstly, there is no given that Hamilton and Rosberg will qualify at the front of the grid. Once they do, they might not get away from the start first and second - as happened in Hungary.
Beyond that, Mercedes might not have a big enough pace advantage in the race to allow them to just do what they want without risking a threat from another team.
The bottom line in all of this is that the team's primary aim is to win, and then to secure the best possible finish - a one-two - and which driver finishes ahead in that scenario is secondary.
The only time that is not the case is if they are in a championship battle with a driver from another team and they make a conscious decision that one driver has a much better chance of beating that rival and/or one of the Mercedes drivers falls out of contention.
It is worth pointing out that Mercedes take the approach they normally do for the good of the drivers as well as the team.
The Mercedes engineers - like those of all the other teams - have computers that run thousands of simulations of possible strategies before a race.
Out of those calculations come one or two ideal strategies, and the team will choose the most advantageous one, while keeping flexibility to modify it in the event of changing circumstances in the race.
So it is not as easy as one driver - Hamilton, in the case of Brazil - asking to change strategy because he feels he is faster but cannot pass his team-mate while running close behind.
And Brazil was a good example of why Mercedes cannot let their drivers and engineers concentrate only on each other - because Vettel was close enough behind they had to focus on making sure they beat him as well.
Occasionally, if the circumstances of a race make it feasible, Mercedes have taken the approach of one of their drivers being on an alternate strategy from the other.
Take their famous battle in Bahrain in 2014, for example.
In that race, the fastest strategy was to run the softer tyre for the first two stints before switching to the harder tyre for the last stint. As the lead car, Hamilton had that strategy.
Rosberg, behind him, felt he was quicker, so was allowed to invert his strategy, going for the harder tyre in the middle stint, which would lose him time, but being given the softer tyre for the end of the race to give him a chance to come back at his team-mate.
As he was the faster driver on the day, Rosberg used this strategy to his advantage, made sure he did not lose too much time in the middle stint, and challenged Hamilton hard at the end.
It led to a thrilling finish, but Hamilton just held on.
But this option is not always available - it depends on the tyre behaviour on a given weekend - in which case the drivers just have to make the best of what they have got.
In normal circumstances, the key strategy tool is the so-called 'undercut'.
This is where the driver behind stops before the car he is chasing and uses the speed advantage of new tyres on his first lap out of the pits to make up enough time so that when the car that had been leading comes out of the pits, the car that had been behind is now ahead.
When drivers from rival teams are racing each other, this tactic is used all the time. The problem with it is that making an earlier stop has a knock-on effect - there is a greater risk of running out of tyres before the end of the race and losing the position again. So it's a fine balancing act.
At Mercedes the drivers are prevented from using the undercut against each other. The lead car gets first call on strategy and his engineer can choose to stop at the most advantageous time. The car behind has no choice but to wait.
The only time this would not be the case would be if the car behind was under threat from a rival behind him - in which case he would be given pit-stop priority, but the stops would be orchestrated in such a way as not to disadvantage the leader.
As a team with two drivers racing each other, there is simply no other way to operate, otherwise the risk is the two engineers try to outdo each other with the undercut, and both drivers end up vulnerable at the end of the race.
And the minute you start giving advantage to the second car when you have two number-one drivers, it's all over. The team implodes - as happened with Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber at Red Bull.
But, on a one-off basis, with nothing of huge importance hanging on the Abu Dhabi race, why not free that up? If the guy behind wants to undercut, then he can.
They could just run the grand prix as if Hamilton and Rosberg were racing for different teams.
To make this work, there would have to be a Chinese wall between Hamilton's engineer Peter Bonnington and Rosberg's Tony Ross. And strategy chief James Vowles would have to stay out of it.
But I don't see a reason why, now Mercedes have secured first and second in the drivers' championship and the team have won the constructors' title, they can't let Hamilton and Rosberg run free and race as individuals just this once.
David Coulthard was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson


A man's face has been slashed in a serious assault in North Ayrshire.

The 27-year-old was walking along Dickson Drive in Irvine at about 00:25 on Friday when he was approached from behind by a man who then assaulted him.
The victim was taken to Crosshouse Hospital where he received treatment for a cut to his face. He was later released.
The suspect was described as being a white man with a local accent, who was wearing dark clothes.
Det Con Fionntan Rankin, of Police Scotland. said: "At this time inquiries are ongoing to establish more detail on this attack and to trace the man responsible.
"I would urge any witnesses, or anyone with information that may assist the police investigation to contact Police Scotland."


League Two side AFC Wimbledon have signed former Arsenal goalkeeper James Shea on a free transfer.

Shea came through the north London club's academy, but left the Gunners last summer after failing to make a senior appearance.
The 23-year-old, who had a loan spell at Dagenham in 2011, spent last season with Ryman League Premier Division side Harrow Borough.
The Dons have not disclosed the length of Shea's contract.
"James has been brought in to compete with Ross Worner for the number one jersey," Dons boss Neal Ardley told the club website.
"We had him in for training three or four times last season. He played in a behind closed doors match for us and really impressed.
"James won the Player of the Year award last season at Harrow and four or five clubs tried to get him in on trial."
Meanwhile, Wimbledon have also signed Basingstoke Town's 20-year-old keeper Joe McDonnell, who will join the club's development squad.


The Colombian authorities have ordered an investigation into a deadly landslide that swept through the south-western town of Mocoa.

The inquiry will focus on whether building regulations were enforced and whether officials had planned adequately for natural disasters.
At least 290 people are now known to have died in Saturday's disaster and more than 300 are still missing.
About 2,700 residents are living in shelters.
Some areas remain without water and electricity, and police reinforcements have been sent in to deter looters.
"This is not about punishment it's about prevention," said national comptroller Edgardo Maya, who ordered the inquiry.
"What good does it do to punish people now, after (so many) deaths?"
A separate investigation is focusing on the regional governor, the town's mayor and their predecessors, Colombian media reported on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, rescue teams continue the grim search for victims buried under piles of debris.
The landslide followed a night of heavy rain which caused the Mocoa River and three tributaries to burst their banks.
The flood sent a torrent of mud and rocks pouring into the town, sweeping away entire neighbourhoods.
The government has faced criticism that it did not act quickly enough - a claim disputed by President Juan Manuel Santos.
He said new systems had been put in place following deadly floods in 2010 and that rescue agencies were co-ordinating their efforts just hours after the disaster.


Northampton hooker Dylan Hartley has been confirmed as England's captain for the Six Nations - two days after his six-week suspension for striking ended.

Coach Eddie Jones announced at the launch of the championship that the 30-year-old will continue in the role.
"I haven't actually told him... shall I say now? I'd like to announce Dylan's the captain," Jones said.
Hartley, who led England to the Grand Slam last year, was banned for hitting Leinster's Sean O'Brien in December.
He caught the Irish flanker high with a swinging arm during Northampton's 37-10 Champions Cup loss and was shown the third red card of his career.
The subsequent suspension took the total number of weeks he has been unavailable during his career to 60.
Hartley will not have played for nine weeks before England's opening game against France on 4 February at Twickenham.
When the captain was asked if he had changed his game in response to his latest sanction, Jones interrupted: "He's had 60 weeks off mate, he's a world expert."
The Australian added: "I think he's ready. He trained well on Tuesday and has still got a couple of days to go. We're pleased to have him back. It's the continuity of the job."
Hartley, when asked about his suitability for the role, said: "We did this last year, talking about me. I'm confident, I feel fresh, I feel fit, and focused.
"I'm here on behalf of the team. The challenge is to use this week as best we can to get the preparation right for a huge first game."
Hartley was dropped from England's 2015 Rugby World Cup squad after he headbutted Saracens' Jamie George, but was recalled by Jones after he replaced Stuart Lancaster.
The hooker went on to lead the side to a Six Nations Grand Slam as they embarked on a run of 14 consecutive Test match victories.
British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland has refused to be drawn on whether Hartley's disciplinary record will affect his chances of leading this summer's tour to New Zealand.
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Jones attended the launch with a dressing on his face and a black eye, caused by a fall in the bathroom of his hotel.
However, the Australian did initially suggest he suffered the injury while attempting the combat sports England players have been practising since October.
"First we had judo and then we had MMA, so we're just going through all the martial arts sports to see what effect they have on the body," Jones said.
"My mother always told me I've got to shave and I forgot, so I walked out of the shower to get the shaver and this is what happened."
Back row James Haskell has been given the all-clear to link up with the squad after recovering from a foot injury that kept him out for six months.
The 31-year-old was a key part of England's Grand Slam and unbeaten tour of Australia in 2016.
But, having missed the autumn internationals, he faces a battle to oust Tom Wood, who was this week singled out for praise by Jones.
Jones said people would "have to wait and see" if Haskell would feature against France in 11 days' time.
"He has not had much rugby," he added. "He's played around 60 minutes against Zebre and 36 seconds against the opposition the previous week."
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David Cameron has led tributes to Conservative MP Ken Clarke's wife Gillian following her death.

The Prime Minister said she had been Mr Clarke's "rock" in his long political career, which saw him rise to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.
She died on Thursday aged 74 and had been battling cancer.
The couple, who have two children, met while they were students at Cambridge University and married in 1964.
The prime minister and his wife Samantha sent their condolences to the Clarke family, and described her death as "incredibly sad news".
Mr Cameron added: "I know that Gillian was Ken's rock, supporting him through his many years of frontline politics.
"They were always there for each other through thick and thin, so it is with enormous sadness that we think of Ken and his family today.
"We're holding them all in our thoughts and prayers."
Fellow Tory MPs also described Mrs Clarke - who lived in Nottinghamshire, in her husband's Rushcliffe constituency - as "brilliant" and "wonderful".
Tory MP Robert Jenrick, who represents Newark in Nottinghamshire, said: "All our thoughts in Nottinghamshire are with Ken Clarke and his family following the death of the brilliant and much-loved Gillian."
Solicitor General Robert Buckland, the MP for Swindon South, said: "Very sad to hear about the death of the wonderful Gillian Clarke - my thoughts are with Ken and his family."
The daughter of two teachers, from Sidcup, Kent, the then Gillian Edwards gained a first in history at Newnham College from the University of Cambridge.


A 44-year-old man has been seriously injured after a disturbance in Dumfries town centre.

Police were called to an incident in Queensberry Street at about 01:15 on Saturday.
The victim was taken to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary and later transferred to the Western General Infirmary in Edinburgh, where he is being treated for a head injury.
His condition was described as critical.
Det Ch Insp Colin Burnie said: "Our investigation is ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding this incident and officers are currently carrying out door-to-door inquiries and studying CCTV footage to gather more information on this incident and whoever is responsible."


The late president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara - an icon for many young Africans in the 1980s - remains to some a heroic "African Che Guevara", 27 years after his assassination at the age of 37.

Be it through the red beret, worn by firebrand South African politician Julius Malema, or the household brooms being wielded at street demonstrations in Burkina Faso, there are signs that his legacy is enjoying a revival.
Praised by supporters for his integrity and selflessness, the military captain and anti-imperialist revolutionary led Burkina Faso for four years from 1983.
But he is seen by others as an autocrat who came to power through a coup and valued discipline above human rights.
Sankara was a staunch defender of all things home-grown - such as cotton - and yet the African textile industry failed to make him a T-shirt icon.
While Burkina Faso's former leader may not be the poster boy of revolution, like Argentine-born Che Guevara, many taxis across West Africa have a round sticker of him in his beret on their windscreens.
His influence is still felt as far afield as South Africa, argues columnist Andile Mngxitama.
"The elections in South Africa [next month] are about the memory of Thomas Sankara," says Mr Mngxitama, who is also the commissar for land and agrarian revolution for South Africa's new Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party.
"They are about the ideal that political power can and must be used for the common good."
The EFF was launched by Mr Malema, who supports the partial nationalisation of South Africa's mining and farming sectors, as "the new home for voiceless, indigenous poor South Africans" after he was expelled from the governing African National Congress (ANC).
Sankara's spirit is also behind a protest movement that began last year in his homeland of Burkina Faso, a former French colony.
Called Le Balai Citoyen, meaning "the citizens' broom", it campaigns against moves by President Blaise Compaore to extend his hold on power beyond 2015.
Once Sankara's deputy, Mr Compaore came to power after his friend was shot dead by a group of soldiers in October 1987.
"We carry brooms because we want to sweep out the president and his clique," says 43-year-old musician Samsk Le Jah, the man behind Le Balai Citoyen.
As a teenager he says he received his "political education" in Sankara's Pioneer youth movement.
"The broom is also a tribute to Thomas Sankara, who organised weekly street-cleaning sessions," he says.
"African leaders have so much to learn from Sankara about humility and public service."
Benewende Sankara - no relation of the late socialist leader - agrees.
"Sankara's spirit still floats over Burkina Faso," says the Sankarist politician, who is also the lawyer for the late president's family.
At the moment the family is fighting a legal battle to win the right to open the tomb the government built in Sankara's honour and DNA test any remains found inside as there has been no real investigation into the exact circumstances of his death, which are still hazy.
"He was ahead of his time. The values people agree on today - the need for good governance and reducing consumption - were what Sankara taught us," says the lawyer.
"It was all about produce what you consume, be self-sufficient, be honest and live simply," he says.
"His ministers drove small cars and travelled economy class, Thomas himself rode a bicycle.
"Those are values that, if they are heard, appeal to the youth all over the world today."
Sankara's revolutionary zeal is best remembered in West Africa.
But in neighbouring Ghana - whose former President Jerry Rawlings was a firm friend of Sankara - post-graduate law student David Guat, 50, sounds a note of caution when he talks to younger students.
Sankara seized power not long after Flight Lieutenant Rawlings had led his second coup.
"Sankara copied a lot of Rawlings' ideas. The two men were firm friends - to the extent that they wanted to merge their two countries.
"In those days there was discipline. You went to work on time and you did not sit around reading The Graphic [newspaper]," remembers Mr Guat.
"You actually worked. But people were not disciplined because they wanted to be; they were disciplined because they were being checked on.
"Human rights were not respected. I have very mixed feelings about that period."
Still, without achieving Che Guevara's fame, Sankara's legacy has spread far and wide.
Eight years ago, when Australian communications specialist Shantha Bloemen had a son with a Zimbabwean human rights activist, Munyaradzi Gwisai, they named him Sankara.
"I had read Sankara's essay on the rights of African women," she says.
"He understood why women are so critical to Africa's transformation.
Ms Bloemen, who works in China, says Sankara had ambitions for the whole African continent.
"He wanted a fairer, proud, independent Africa that was equipped to tackle its challenges," she says.
"I can think of no better role model for my son."
For Serge Bambara, a co-founder of Le Balai Citoyen, it is this positive attitude that ensures his legacy.
"It allowed us to be more proud to be African and to pull out of that inferiority complex, to realise we can accomplish things," he told the BBC.
"[US President Barack] Obama was not the first to say, 'Yes we can.'"


A British cyber-security researcher has pleaded "not guilty" to charges of creating and selling malware that snooped on victims' banking logins.

Marcus Hutchins, 23, appeared in court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A trial has now been scheduled for October.
He shot to fame after helping to stall the WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack that struck the NHS and affected many other organisations around the world in May.
Mr Hutchins was arrested by the FBI on 2 August.
The Milwaukee court has granted the cyber-security researcher permission to work and use the internet again, though he will not be allowed access to the server he used to stop WannaCry spreading.
He must surrender his passport and will be tracked in the US via GPS during his release.
Mr Hutchins faces six charges relating to the development and distribution Kronos, a well-known piece of malware that gathered financial information from infected computers.
A second defendant, who has not yet been named, was also included in the federal indictment against Mr Hutchins.
"Marcus Hutchins is a brilliant young man and a hero," said Marcia Hoffman, one of his lawyers, who was speaking outside the court after the hearing.
"He is going to vigorously defend himself against these charges and when the evidence comes to light we are confident that he will be fully vindicated."
Brian Klein, a second lawyer, added: "We are very pleased today that the court modified his terms, allowing him to return to his important work."
Mr Hutchins was arrested shortly after visiting the Black Hat and Def Con cyber-security conferences in Las Vegas.
The cyber-security researcher is from Ilfracombe, Devon and works for LA-based firm Kryptos Logic.
He was granted bail on 5 August after $30,000 (£23,000) was raised by friends and family.


Kyle Edmund is through to the third round of the Winston-Salem Open after beating Russia's Daniil Medvedev, but fellow Briton Aljaz Bedene is out.

British number two Edmund, 22, overcame Medvedev 2-6 6-2 7-6 (8-6) in North Carolina and will play either Marton Fucsovics or Joao Sousa in the last 16.
Bedene, ranked 48th in the world - three places below Edmund - lost 6-4 7-5 to Italy's Andreas Seppi.
Britain's Brydan Klein lost in the first round of US Open qualifying.
The 27-year-old, ranked 169th in the world, was beaten 6-3 3-6 7-6 by France's Vincent Millot.
But fellow Briton Cameron Norrie advanced to the second qualifying round, beating Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik 6-2 6-2.
The US Open starts in New York on 28 August.


An Iraqi MP from the secular Iraqiya bloc has been shot dead by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, officials say.

Bashar al-Ageidi was ambushed outside his house and later died of his wounds.
No group has so far said it carried out the attack.
The Iraqiya bloc of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi narrowly won elections in March, beating incumbent PM Nouri Maliki's  State of Law alliance.
Mr Ageidi, who was in his mid-30s, was in front of his house in western Mosul when a car carrying the gunmen stopped nearby.
Police say two of the men got out and shot the deputy in the chest.
But in confusion one of the attackers was unable to get back into the vehicle and was later captured.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says the most obvious suspects in an assassination like this are Sunni militants, bent on disrupting the political process and deterring people from taking part.
Mosul, about 350km (215 miles) north of Baghdad, remains a hotbed of insurgent activities, despite efforts to pacify it.
Earlier this week, Iraq's electoral commission upheld parliamentary election results in Baghdad and the surrounding area after a partial recount.
Many Iraqis hope the move will draw a line under a series of challenges to the vote itself, and the beginning of negotiations in earnest between the various political parties.
No single party won enough seats to form a government on its own.
A broad coalition of some kind - including Shias, Sunnis and Kurds - seems the most likely outcome, correspondents say.


A police officer tried to incriminate two men over a "personal grudge" by faking a so-called "IS kidnap" of an officer, a court has heard.

PC Amar Tasaddiq Hussain, 29, is one of three men accused of conspiring to make a "false and malicious" 999 call to West Midlands Police.
He denies two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Adil Bashir, 26, and Muhammad Ali Sheikh, 31, have also denied the charges at Stafford Crown Court.
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Prosecutor Simon Davis said the bogus call about the kidnap plot on 8 December 2014, and another two calls made earlier on 27 September about an alleged sham marriage, were staged to target two members of a religious group; Faisal Sami and Irfan Ul-Haq, because of a "personal grudge".
The court heard Mr Hussain wanted to be the head of security at the Dawat-e-Islami faith group where Mr Sami was the leader.
This sparked the three defendants to plot a "course of conduct intended to undermine Ul-Haq and, in turn, a friend of his called Faisal Sami", said Mr Davis.
The court heard from Irfan Ul-Haq from Pakistani via video link, who was arrested after counter-terrorism police raided a tyre business in Walsall as part of the investigation, and he was deported for immigration offences.
Mr Ul-Haq claimed to have been friends with Mr Hussain for seven years and knew him as Amir.
"Amir wanted to become head of security department. He wanted to be security head," he said, referring to the Dawat-e-Islami group.
Mr Hussain, from Yardley, who is suspended from duty, was charged with Mr Bashir of Small Heath and Mr Sheikh from Bordesley Green. All three deny the charges.
The trial continues.


India's main opposition BJP has risen like a phoenix from the depths of despair.

As the leads poured in on Friday morning, it was clear that the party was steaming ahead to India's biggest election victory in 30 years. This, after two losing two elections in a row - the party was able to mop up only 116 seats in 2009.
Today, the BJP on its own is on course to win more than the 272 which it needs to gain a simple majority, and its 28-party coalition is leading the vote count in over 300 seats.
The scale of victory is truly gigantic in India's fractured polity where no party has managed to get a simple majority since Congress in 1984 won 415 seats riding on a sympathy wave after the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
The results are a thumping endorsement for the BJP's charismatic and controversial prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, who made the election a presidential-style referendum on his reputation as a no-nonsense, can-do leader who stood for development and muscular nationalism.
On the last day of the campaign, I asked a bunch of BJP leaders on the flight back from Varanasi how many seats they expected to win. Most said it would be 240-250 seats.
Clearly the margin, as commentator Swapan Dasgupta says, is "beyond the party's wildest expectations".
"This is Mr Modi's victory. A man who was vilified, pilloried and cast as an ogre of India by the English-speaking elite has emerged as the hope of India," he says.
For the Congress - which is looking at its worst-ever performance - the results are an indictment of its inability to control inflation and corruption, a drift in governance and an inability to groom a new generation of young leaders around the country. And the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty is no longer the draw it used to be in today's restless and aspirational India.


Niall O'Brien top-scored with 63 as Ireland made a solid start to reach 232-5 in their Intercontinental Cup encounter with Papua New Guinea.

O'Brien hit four boundaries in his 168-ball innings on day one in the Australian venue of Townsville but lost his wicket shortly before the close.
A weather-hit opening day caused 21 overs to be lost to a combination of bad light and rain.
Gary Wilson hit 48 as Papua New Guinea's bowlers kept Ireland in check.
A sluggish pitch and a slow outfield didn't help the Irish as the run rate never got above three an over.
Wilson supported O'Brien in a fourth-wicket stand of 69 in the best partnership of the day before being trapped lbw by Chad Soper.
O'Brien then departed shortly before the close as he miscued a pull shot off Norman Vanua's bowling, although his brother Kevin was still there at the close on 19 not out.
Papua New Guinea will reflect on a number of dropped catches and missed run-out opportunities.
Ireland went into the match second in the Intercontinental Cup table, six points behind leaders the Netherlands.
Pace bowler Boyd Rankin is making his competitive return for Ireland after his switch back from England.


A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage boy who was shot dead in Liverpool - the seventh arrest in three days.

Lewis Dunne, 16, who was found near Burrows Court in Vauxhall on 15 November, had been shot in the back.
A 25-year-old man from Walton has been arrested, two days after police said six people were being questioned in connection with the killing.
In January police found a shotgun while searching the Leeds Liverpool canal.
The latest arrested man has been taken to a police station for questioning.
Two of the six arrested on Wednesday remain in custody, while four have been released on bail.
Five of the six were held on suspicion of murder, while one was being questioned on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Four other men who were arrested in December were also bailed pending further inquiries.


Celtic have been charged by Uefa over an "illicit banner" displayed during their Champions League qualifier against Linfield.

The Glasgow club have also been cited for a "kit infringement" and "blocked stairways" during Wednesday's 4-0 victory at Celtic Park.
Celtic have condemned the conduct of "a small minority of the crowd".
The club have opened their own inquiry into the banner and say they will take "appropriate action".
In the past six years, the Scottish champions have been punished on 10 separate occasions relating to misconduct from supporters during European ties.
Uefa rules prohibit the use of "any message that is not fit for a sports event, particularly messages that are of a political, ideological, religious, offensive or provocative nature".
A statement from Celtic said: "Any support for a paramilitary or proscribed terrorist organisation has no place at Celtic Park.
"The club has been consistent in condemning such conduct on the very few occasions in the past when it has occurred at Celtic Park. It is unfortunate that such a small minority of the crowd at Celtic Park last night behaved in such a way.
"We know that the Celtic support will join us in condemning such behaviour."
The kit infringement is believed to be for the wearing of training bibs with a visible sponsor name.
The case will be dealt with by the Uefa control, ethics and disciplinary body on 28 July.
Meanwhile, Celtic have been punished for disciplinary breaches in the first leg.
Striker Leigh Griffiths must serve a one-match ban for "provoking spectators" after tying a scarf to the goalposts, while there was a fine for "improper conduct of the team" after they picked up five bookings in the 2-0 win.


New images of a dolphin that was badly sunburned while stranded out of water on mudflats for 24 hours in May show that its injury is healing.

The young animal was found by chance at the Cromarty Firth by a couple who had got lost trying to drive to a dolphin-watching spot at the Moray Firth.
Scientists and conservationists were unsure the animal would survive the injury after it was refloated.
The images were taken from the shores of the Cromarty and Moray firths.
Whale and Dolphin Conservation field officer Charlie Phillips photographed the bottlenose dolphin, known as Spirtle, "babysitting" her sister Honey's calf from Nigg on the Cromarty Firth earlier this week.
Animal welfare officers and members of the public refloated Spirtle after the animal was spotted by a couple who had got lost while trying to drive to a popular dolphin spotting site.
They were looking for Chanonry Point on the Moray Firth but instead ended up on the Nigg peninsula on the Cromarty Firth.
The University of Aberdeen and the Inverness-based Scottish Marine Strandings Scheme (SMASS) are monitoring Spirtle's recovery from the stranding.
There are hopes the young female might eventually breed and raise young.


A leading commander with the banned Hizbul Mujahideen militant group in Indian-administered Kashmir has been shot dead along with other suspected militants, the security forces say.

They say that Sabzar Bhat was killed when police raided a hideout.
His death will be regarded as a triumph by the Indian security forces but has already led to a wave of protests.
The security forces used tear gas and fired in the air to try to disperse stone-throwing crowds.
Police told the BBC that two other militants were killed with Bhat in a gun battle that raged throughout Friday night.
Six other militants, described by officials as foreign, were killed in a separate incident near the Line of Control, the de-facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed territory.
Clashes between militants and the security forces have continued into Saturday.
Many shops and businesses have closed and thousands of people are reported to be heading to Bhat's home village in the Tral area of Kashmir, about 30 miles (48km) south of Srinagar, to attend his funeral.
News of his death has also triggered a spontaneous strike across the valley with officials likely to restrict mobile phone and internet access as a precautionary security measure, the BBC's Riyaz Masroor in Srinagar reports.
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Bhat became one of the leaders of Hizbul Mujahideen while serving as an aide to top militant Burhan Wani - who was killed in July 2016.
His death plunged Indian-administered Kashmir into one of the worst episodes of violence in recent years.
The security forces are struggling to prevent a repeat of that this weekend, official sources said.
The group is mostly active in south Kashmir and its paramount leader, Zakir Musa Bhat, is an engineering graduate from a wealthy family in the Tral area.
Hizbul Mujahideen is one of the Kashmir region's largest rebel groups and is believed to favour all of Kashmir being part of Pakistan.


Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an Iron Age "loch village" in Wigtownshire, the first of its kind to be found in Scotland.

Experts believe it could be "Scotland's Glastonbury", a reference to the lake village in Somerset.
The excavation was part-financed with Â£15,000 from Historic Scotland.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop described the village discovery at Black Loch of Myrton as "an exciting and unexpected find".
The dig was carried out this summer by AOC Archaeology Group, which hopes to use the pilot excavation as the starting point for a broader programme of archaeological activity.
It is one of 55 archaeology projects to receive more than Â£1m in funding from Historic Scotland for 2013/14.
The Wigtownshire dig was a small-scale pilot excavation of what was initially thought to be a crannog in the now-infilled Black Loch of Myrton, which was under threat of destruction as a result of drainage operations.
However during the excavation, AOC - which worked on the dig in conjunction with local volunteers - discovered evidence of multiple structures making up a small village.
What initially appeared to be one of a small group of mounds before excavation was revealed to be a massive stone hearth complex at the centre of a roundhouse.
The timber structure of the house has been preserved, with beams radiating out from the hearth forming the foundation, while the outer wall consists of a double-circuit of stakes.
The most surprising discovery was that the house was not built on top of an artificial foundation, but directly over the fen peat which had gradually filled in the loch.
Rather than being a single crannog, as first thought, it appears to be a settlement of at least seven houses built in the wetlands around the small loch.
This type of site is currently unique in Scotland and there are few other comparable sites elsewhere in the British Isles.
Similar lake villages - including Glastonbury and Meare, which is also in Somerset - have been found in England, but this is the first "loch village" to be uncovered in Scotland.
Experts hope that its discovery will help to improve knowledge and understanding of Iron Age Scotland.
Ms Hyslop welcomed the discovery.
"There are some excellent examples of 'lake villages' in England but this is the first time archaeologists have found a 'loch village' in Scotland," she said.
"I am pleased too that experts joined forces with local volunteers on this project and I look forward to discovering what more this important find can teach us about Iron Age Scotland."


World number one Serena Williams says a knee injury has forced her to pull out of this week's BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.

Williams, 35, said she will also miss the Miami Open later this month.
The American, who won an Open era record 23rd Grand Slam at the Australian Open earlier this year, said: "I have not been able to train due to my knees."
She added she would return "as soon as I can".
Indian Wells organisers said a revised draw would be issued later.
Williams only returned to the Californian tournament in 2015 after a 14-year boycott following claims she had suffered  racist abuse at the venue.
Her withdrawal means Germany's Angelique Kerber is set to replace her as world number one.


An exhibition of the late works of Rembrandt opens at London's National Gallery this week, on the first step in a journey that will take many of the works back to Amsterdam, the city where they were created in the 17th Century.

The story goes that upon viewing Rembrandt's Jewish Bride for the first time in 1885, Vincent Van Gogh said: "I should be happy to give 10 years of my life if I could go on sitting here in front of this picture for a fortnight, with only a crust of dry bread for food."
In a letter to his brother Theo, he wrote: "What an intimate, what an infinitely sympathetic painting."
The Jewish Bride, officially known as Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebecca, dates from about 1665 and is one of the key paintings on show as part of Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery.
Organised in collaboration with Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, the exhibition is the first to explore Rembrandt's final years from about 1652 to his death in 1669.
It will then move to the Rijksmuseum's newly opened Philips exhibition wing in February 2015.
"Every work in the exhibition - including many works rarely seen in public - is by the artist himself, to allow the most accurate understanding of his style and technique," says Betsy Wieseman, the show's curator at the National Gallery (NG).
The NG and the Rijksmuseum have been in talks about the exhibition for some 10 years.
"I think that it is safe to say that the more important the artist, the longer it takes to put together an exhibition about them," says Ms Wieseman.
The exhibition features some 40 paintings, 20 drawings and 30 prints that are on loan from around the world.
"The biggest challenge has been to convince public institutions and private collectors to lend their paintings for this exhibition, but we have been very fortunate and are indeed very grateful for their help in gathering this extraordinary selection of Rembrandt's late works," says Ms Wieseman.
What do these later works tell us about the artist? "Visitors will be able to appreciate Rembrandt as a very 'modern' artist - he eliminated unnecessary details, he explored bold, almost abstract techniques, and he was obsessed with finding ways to intensify the viewer's experience of his works," says Ms Wieseman.
There is as much excitement in Amsterdam as there is in London about the exhibition.
"Everyone knows Rembrandt is the master of light," says Gregor Webern, head of fine arts at the Rijksmuseum. "He starts with light but he continues with light at the end of his career."
Among the themes of this period are self-portraiture - "he again and again paints himself," says Mr Webern - experimentation and the observation of everyday life.
"He does not paint Venus falling down from heaven, he is looking to the models of the neighbourhood, " Mr Webern says.
There will be some differences between the two exhibitions. The Rijksmuseum will have three paintings from German collections that aren't travelling to London, including the Self-Portrait as Zeuxis Laughing (from Cologne), painted six years before Rembrandt's death.
Mr Webern puts this down to the fragility of the works, while Ms Wieseman mentions the NG's smaller exhibition space.
The National Gallery announced only last week it had secured the loan of The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis' (about 1661-2). It is the first time the painting has ever been to the UK.
Ms Wieseman says: "The raw savagery of the figures and the clandestine nature of their meeting are brilliantly expressed by means of Rembrandt's broad brushwork, and the odd and dazzling effects of the light cast by the lamp hidden by the figure in the immediate foreground."
The Conspiracy painting will hang alongside other key works such as:
Ms Wieseman says working on the exhibition has given her a much better understanding of how Rembrandt blurred the boundaries between drawing, painting and printmaking.
"I think it will be particularly fascinating to see the paintings, drawings and prints displayed together. I don't think Rembrandt saw them as three completely separate disciplines. Some of what he tried to achieve in printmaking must have been influenced by what he was able to do in painting: how could he achieve the same effects with an etching needle, monochrome paper and ink."
She hopes that people will come away with a better understanding of what Rembrandt was hoping to achieve in the final years of his career.
"You do have a sense of an artist who was very directed: whether consciously or unconsciously, he identified certain artistic or iconographic 'problems' that he wanted or needed to solve," she says.
"For example, rather than simply painting a picture of Bathsheba, Rembrandt wanted to understand and represent the emotions that she was feeling as she read the letter from her king, forcing her into committing adultery.
"And in looking at a painting or a print or a drawing, I would like visitors to think a little more deeply about how the image is created, and why Rembrandt made the artistic choices he did. I think if visitors can empathise with the emotional content of his works, and appreciate his incredible technique, Rembrandt would be very pleased.
"I think the emotional dimension of his work and his extraordinary technique and passion for his art is what still continues to touch people and astonish audiences."
Rembrandt: The Late Works is at the National Gallery 15 Oct 2014 - 18 Jan 2015 (admission charge). After London, the exhibition will travel to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (12 February - 17 May 2015).


For the first time in 13 years, Swansea City are involved in a relegation battle.

Only a 4-2 win over Hull on 3 May 2003 stopped the south Wales club from dropping out of the Football League.
Three promotions and more than a decade of steady growth later, slipping into the second tier would arguably be no disgrace, given how far the Swans have come.
But there is a lot more than just pride at stake as they battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League this season.
Why? Because with the improved television deal that kicks-in from the 2016-17 season, can any club afford to go down?
And as Deloitte's Football Money League report features 17 Premier League clubs in its top 30, the reported 26th-richest club in the world, Swansea, desperately want to stay in the top flight.
The price agreed for domestic television coverage of the Premier League rose by 70% for the 2016-19 cycle, compared to 2013-16.
The current deal, announced in 2012, amounts to £3.018bn over three years but the new agreement in February 2015 smashed that figure, totalling £5.136bn.
And that excludes the money Premier League teams will receive for overseas television rights, which could be worth an additional £2bn in the current deal.
As a result, the money clubs will receive for simply being in the Premier League from next season is set to increase on an astonishing scale.
Last season's bottom club, Queens Park Rangers, were paid £68m over the course of last season, but in May 2017 the team finishing bottom can expect to receive around £100m - Chelsea received "just" £99m for winning the league in 2015.
For Swansea, the potential ramifications of missing out on such large sums of money would be huge.
For one thing, aspirations to develop and own the Liberty Stadium could go on hold and, inevitably, many of the players would be likely to move on.
However, the effect on the local economy could be even more significant, in an area already hit by the news of 750 jobs being lost at the Tata Steel plant in the nearby town of Port Talbot.
According to a study by the Welsh Economy Research Unit on Swansea City's promotion to the Premier League in 2011, their first season in the top division created an estimated 420 jobs - 120 of them in the hospitality industry.
The hotel consultancy service PFK reported a 9% increase in overnight stays in the area and Swansea council reported that activity on its 'Visit Swansea' website was up 44% on the previous year.
Swansea University then saw a significant increase in applications since the local football club joined the elite clubs, a fact vice-chancellor Professor Richard B Davies attributed to Premier League football "putting Swansea on the map".
Emma Frearson Emmanuel, head of the International Office at Swansea University, said: "We have seen a 50% increase [in applications] over two years.
"What we can't say is how many people apply to us directly because of the Swans, but certainly having a Premier League club in the city has been a big help, particularly internationally.
"The Korean footballer Ki Sung-Yueng [Swansea midfielder] has an incredibly high profile in Korea, so obviously factors like that also raise awareness of the city abroad."
That Swansea now generate more revenue than former European Cup winners Ajax and Benfica highlights the financial power of being in the Premier League.
The money the television deal of 2012 brought has seen a huge change in the liquidity of top-flight clubs.
Paul Rawnsley of Deloitte's Sports Business Group, who has been involved with the analysing football finance for 15 years, added: "There has been a sea change in recent years with Premier League clubs becoming collectively profitable for the first time."
This is partly due to the fact that Premier League clubs are now only allowed to post limited losses under Uefa's Financial Fair Play requirements.
But the guaranteed income of next season means this year's Championship play-off final, already the most lucrative one-off fixture in world football, will now be worth even more to the winners than the £90m earned by 2015 winners Norwich.
After a lengthy search to replace Garry Monk in which Jenkins travelled to South America in search of candidates, Swansea have opted to appoint Italian Francesco Guidolin as head coach.
The former Udinese boss, who will take charge of the Swans for this first time at Everton on Sunday, is a new face for the Premier League.
His task is to keep the club in the top flight, at the expense of experienced Premier League managers such as Sunderland's Sam Allardyce and Newcastle's Steve McClaren.
Jenkins has often been praised for getting his managerial appointments right - he will now desperately hope this season's unplanned change of first-team boss does not end up costing the club several tens of millions.


A draft of Labour's general election manifesto has been leaked, including plans to nationalise parts of the energy industry and scrap tuition fees.

The BBC has seen a copy of the document, which is due to be formally signed off on Thursday.
BBC correspondents unpick the policy pledges set out in the draft manifesto.
Renationalising actually happens from time to time anyway. The East Coast Main Line spent several years in public ownership after it was handed back to the government by National Express in 2009, before being privatised again in 2015.
It performed pretty well in public hands. It paid nearly £1bn in fees to the government and still managed to make a profit for the Treasury, while carrying more passengers and getting good passenger satisfaction scores. So there is some evidence that repeating that exercise each time a current rail franchise expires could work.
However, other pledges like freezing rail fares, extending free wi-fi, ending driver-only operated trains and improving disabled access would freeze income while increasing costs. It might be harder to replicate the relative success of the East Coast Main Line experiment with these additional pressures.
The track is already quasi-nationalised through Network Rail and the government pays subsidies to the train operating companies of more than £3bn a year.
Of all the privatisations since Mrs Thatcher's time, this is probably considered one of the least effective in financial terms for the government. The question is whether passengers' memories of British Rail are clear enough to make a comparison to their experience today.
The reference to price caps is hardly a surprise given a version of the policy was in the last Labour manifesto and the Conservative Party has committed to do much the same. The same criticisms over deterring investment and encouraging the withdrawal of cheaper prices for switchers apply to both parties.
The setting up of publicly-owned utilities in every region of the UK is a much more difficult exercise. Apart from three locally run public companies, the government would essentially be starting from scratch in an industry that it hasn't been involved in for decades.
Quizzed on Thursday morning about how this would work, the policy chief talked of setting up regional co-operatives, but where they would spring from and how they would be managed is not clear.
The cost of transporting gas and electricity across cables and through pipes makes up nearly a quarter of consumers' energy bills. Most of that money goes to privately-owned National Grid, which last year made a profit of £3bn, although it no longer owns all of the UK gas transportation infrastructure.
It also distributes gas and electricity in the United States and makes a much bigger profit margin here than it does there - a fact that has drawn heavy criticism from consumer groups.
Even if you agree that National Grid is charging the energy companies too much, to nationalise it you would presumably have to buy it back. Its current value is £38bn, but a lot of that is made up of its US business which presumably a Labour government wouldn't want to buy!
The UK business is estimated to be worth about £25bn. A chunky purchase, but one that could quite easily be financed in that it makes enough money to repay the interest on any money borrowed to buy it.
Read more from Simon Jack on the manifesto
Scrapping tuition fees is the biggest headline for education policy in Labour's leaked plans.
Instead of fees rising to £9,250 per year in the autumn, Jeremy Corbyn is proposing a complete handbrake turn in saying that university tuition should not cost students anything.
It's a bolder step than Labour's previous leader, who two years ago opted for a halfway house of cutting fees to £6,000 - and then was accused of pleasing no-one.
There are no details so far of how the cost would be covered, whether through general taxation or a targeted graduate tax. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, it would cost a ballpark figure of about £11bn per year to replace the cost of fees.
But once the write-off from unpaid loans is taken into account, the cost would be about £8bn per year.
And this is only England - because education funding is a devolved matter. There are no fees for Scottish students in Scotland and the IFS says scrapping the lower fees charged in Northern Ireland and Wales would cost a further £500m per year.
There have been precedents for getting rid of tuition fees in other countries.
Germany has phased out tuition fees - and New York State is making tuition free for families earning up to about £100,000 per year.
But with promises already announced for big spending increases for schools, the university challenge for Labour - its starter for No 10 - will be about funding.
Read more from Sean Coughlan
Labour has already set out some of its NHS plans, including pay rises for staff in England above the current 1% pay cap.
Every one percentage point increase above that will cost £500m and Labour said that would be paid for by increases in corporation tax. Other parties argued Labour was already spending the corporation tax receipts several times over.
The draft manifesto includes a £6bn annual increase in NHS funding, though it is not clear when this would be achieved, or whether it includes the amount passed on to the devolved administrations. The funding will come, Labour says, from raising income tax for high earners.
The annual health budget in England is around £115bn, so on the face of it a £6bn increase is significant. But the Conservatives raised NHS spending by £3.8bn in the 2016-17 year and that was in effect eaten up dealing with increased patient demand rather than new service investments.
Labour wants to offer guarantees that NHS performance targets in England for A&E and routine surgery waiting times will be met. That may stretch the extra money the party wants to raise for the NHS.
At the moment the NHS is falling short, though the Conservative Party in government said it wanted to get back to the A&E target of 95% of patients being seen or treated within four hours by next year.
Running the service with the money available is one thing. Improving performance in the face of relentlessly rising patient demand is another.
Read more from Hugh Pym
It is not surprising to see social care mentioned in the manifesto - Labour has been promising something on the growing problems caring for the elderly and adults with disabilities for weeks.
Much of what is included in the manifesto - the end to care workers' 15-minute flying visits for example - have been mentioned while Labour has been in opposition.
The two headline pledges are an extra £8bn for the system over the lifetime of the next Parliament and the potential creation of a national care service. The extra money sounds a lot - last year councils spent just under £20bn on services, including care homes and home help.
But unlike with the NHS, the budget for social care is not decided by central government. It is up to local councils to decide how much to spend.
If they do not put in the same as they have been doing in previous years - and they argue that other cuts to sources of funding would make that difficult - the total amount spent may not necessarily go up.
Much more radical would be the creation of a national care service. Ever since the NHS was formed after the end of the World War Two, there has been a two-tier system.
The poorest get help towards the cost of care, while those with means are expected to meet the full cost themselves. Labour only promises to consult on a universal system  - and it is not yet clear what the party has in mind exactly.
But there is a precedent. In 2010, at the end of the Gordon Brown government, Labour came up with a plan for a universal system that would require contributions from individuals - either through tax, an insurance scheme or from their own pocket.
Read more from Nick Triggle
One of Labour's most eye-catching promises is that it would scrap planned increases to the state pension age beyond the already-planned move to 66 in 2020.
That puts in question the move to 67 for people retiring from 2028 and later moves to 68 and, possibly, 69 and 70. The increases are designed to save the taxpayer billions of pounds.
Jeremy Corbyn points out that people in physically demanding jobs - in the emergency services, construction, care and in prisons - should not be expected to work into their late 60s.
So Labour would commission a new review of pension ages to look at a flexible approach, taking into account different jobs and life expectancies.  Could this result in some people being allowed to retire earlier than others and still being able to claim the full pension?
The former business leader John Cridland has only just completed a government-commissioned review of the state pension which recommended keeping the same pension age for everyone.
He said there was "no effective mechanism that has been tested that would be able to target those with lower life expectancy".
On how much pension will be paid, Labour had already committed itself to keeping the triple lock, the promise that the state pension will rise each year by inflation, average earnings or 2.5%, whichever is highest.
It could become a key point of difference in the campaign, given the speculation that the Conservatives might water down the guarantee by dropping the 2.5% element.
The main policies on benefits are much as expected.
Labour has been adamant for some time that it would stop job centres imposing benefit sanctions, scrap the under-occupancy charge - known as the bedroom tax - and reinstate housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds.
Labour's defence policy appears towards the back of the leaked manifesto - on page 42 of 45.
At first glance, it appears the most controversial subject for the party has been resolved. Labour has committed to renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system, despite Jeremy Corbyn's well-known opposition.
His own concerns are reflected in a passage - in the particular draft version that the BBC has seen - stating that any prime minister should be "extremely cautious" about ever using weapons of "mass destruction".  And the document sets out how Labour would work towards a world free of nuclear weapons.
There's also another potential caveat. Labour would carry out an immediate review of all defence policy if it wins the election. That won't please everyone in the military.  The armed forces are still trying to fund and implement the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review.
Like the Conservatives, Labour has committed to spending 2% of the national income, or GDP, on defence - a Nato target. Though, interestingly, that is the only mention of the alliance. More time is spent talking about working with the UN.
Labour reminds the electorate that it was the Conservatives - singly and in coalition with the Liberal Democrats - that have been responsible for the largest defence cuts in a generation. It promises to fully fund the armed forces in the future.
But there is still no specific pledge to protect numbers or on equipment. Instead the party's focus appears to be on retention and on improving the lives of service families and veterans with better housing.
Read more from Jonathan Beale


Dundee have signed central defender Jack Hendry on a two-year deal.

The 22-year-old left Partick Thistle in 2015 to join Wigan Athletic after just five first-team appearances for the Jags.
He spent time on loan with MK Dons last season after a spell at Shrewsbury Town in the previous campaign.
Hendry was on a four-year contract at Wigan but has negotiated an early release to kick-start his career back in Scotland.
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One month after his skiing accident, Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher is still in a medically induced coma, his manager has said.

Sabine Kehm told the BBC the seven-time world champion remained in a "stable" condition at a clinic in Grenoble.
She has rejected as "speculation" a French media report saying Schumacher was being woken from his coma.
The German suffered a severe head injury on 29 December when he fell and hit a rock in the French Alps.
Surgeons have performed two operations to remove blood clots around Schumacher's brain. He is being kept asleep to reduce swelling.
Doctors in Grenoble have ruled out giving a prognosis for his condition in the coming days and months.
But it is medically possible for someone to spend several weeks in an induced coma and make a full recovery.
Schumacher: The unanswered questions
However Professor Gary Hartstein, a former F1 doctor who worked with Schumacher, said it "was extremely unlikely" that the 45-year-old would regain his previous level of health.
Prof Hartstein nevertheless described the champion's current state as encouraging.
"The fact that he is still sedated and not in an unsedated coma is better news than I expected," he told the BBC.
British neurosurgeon Peter Kirkpatrick suggested French medical staff may keep Schumacher in a coma to avoid chest infections and breathing problems.
"I think it's true to say that our French colleagues tend to ventilate patients for much longer than we do here, but I certainly wouldn't discount the possibility of Mr Schumacher still having a reasonable recovery."
Meanwhile, Ferrari - the racing team with which Schumacher had 72 of his 91 F1 wins - said in an online statement it was "waiting" for his return:
"Dear Michael, having spent so many years at Ferrari, you became one of us. You thrilled us so often, bringing us great joy, but the greatest one is yet to come: namely seeing you here in Maranello again, to meet your second family, the Ferrari one."
Schumacher's family have been by his bedside since the accident. They have received hundreds of letters and gifts from around the world, as a show of support for the popular sports star.
On Sunday, fans marched around the Spa-Francrochamps race track in Belgium to pay tribute to Schumacher.
He made his grand prix debut at the track in 1991 and won six of his seven world titles there.
Earlier this month, investigators probing the accident said Schumacher had been going at the speed of "a very good skier" at the time of the accident in the resort of Meribel.
He had been skiing eight metres off-piste when he fell, they added.
Experts reconstructed events leading up to the crash after examining Schumacher's skiing equipment and viewing footage filmed on a camera attached to his helmet.
The German retired from racing in 2012 after a 19-year career.
He won two titles with Benetton, in 1994 and 1995, before switching to Ferrari in 1996 and going on to win five straight titles from 2000.


The Russian government has warned Poland that it will face sanctions if it removes monuments glorifying the Soviet victory in World War Two.

Last month Poland updated its "de-communisation" legislation, banning "totalitarian" symbols, which would include Soviet propaganda monuments.
Now Russian foreign ministry officials have warned of "asymmetric measures" if Poland removes Soviet war monuments.
Russia could refuse visas for Polish officials or downgrade trade relations.
The officials, quoted by the Russian daily Izvestia, were not named.
The Red Army's defeat of Nazi German forces on Polish soil in 1944-1945 remains a thorny issue in Russian-Polish relations.
Many Poles viewed the Red Army as an occupation force, not as liberators, as the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact had carved up Poland between two dictatorships.
The Russian foreign ministry has also expressed anger at Poland's decision to exclude Russia from an international project to build a museum at Sobibor, site of a notorious Nazi death camp.
The ministry said Russia had been invited to join the project in 2013, but this month it was told that the Polish government wanted to keep the original group involved, from Poland, Israel, the Netherlands and Slovakia.
The ministry accused Poland of "Russophobia" and of "striving to belittle the USSR's role as liberator". In 1943 a Soviet Jewish prisoner-of-war, Lt Alexander Pechersky, led a desperate uprising against the Nazi SS corps by Jewish inmates at Sobibor.
Pendant found 'linked to Anne Frank'
Earlier this month the Russian foreign ministry condemned the new Polish "de-communisation" law as "an outrageous provocation", and warned of unspecified "consequences".
"The USSR paid the highest price to liberate Poland - on that country's soil, in battles with the enemy, more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers and officers died and were buried. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war, who died in Nazi concentration camps, also lie in Polish soil," the ministry said.
Polish officials have been quoted as saying monuments at Soviet war cemeteries will remain untouched.
There are about 500 Soviet war memorials in Poland, Izvestia reports, and about 4,000 across central and eastern Europe as a whole. Hungary has the largest number of such memorials.
In 2007, Estonia's removal of a Red Army statue in its capital Tallinn sparked a violent protest by Russian speakers and a massive cyber attack on Estonian official websites. Russian hackers were blamed for that attack.
Polish-Russian relations deteriorated dramatically in 2010, when a plane carrying dozens of top Polish officials crashed in thick fog near Smolensk, in western Russia. Among the dead was ex-President Lech Kaczynski.
Investigations found that pilot error was to blame, but some Polish officials suspect that Russian air traffic controllers deliberately misled the crew.
The crash was especially poignant as the plane was on its way to a commemoration of the Polish officers slaughtered by Soviet secret police in Katyn forest in 1940.
Meanwhile, a fierce controversy has swirled around a new World War Two museum in the Polish city of Gdansk. In January, Poland's nationalist government won a court ruling enabling it to change the exhibits there, to fit a more narrowly Polish narrative about the war.


Gloucester overcame Cardiff Blues to set up European Challenge Cup semi-final at La Rochelle.

A Gareth Anscombe drop-goal edged Blues 23-20 ahead after Gloucester Josh Hohneck was yellow carded.
Alex Cuthbert had helped level the scores after the sin-binning, scoring his second try after Ross Moriarty and Tom Marshall scores put the hosts up.
But unanswered second-half tries from Jonny May, Marshall, Mark Atkinson and Henry Purdy sealed Gloucester's win.
The Cherry and Whites, who went out at home at the quarter-final stage last year, won the competition in 2015.
Defeat for the Blues means they have failed to progress beyond the last eight of any European Cup competition since winning the continent's second-tier title in 2010.
In a seesawing opening 40 minutes, scores were locked on four separate occasions, with Cuthbert and Moriarty trading tries before Blues' Steven Shingler and Gloucester's Billy Burns swapped penalties.
More of the same followed when Billy Twelvetrees took over kicking duties from Burns, following a head injury, as both sides landed further penalties and Marshall's first try put Gloucester 20-13 up.
However, Blues racked up 10 points while Gloucester were a man down to take a three-point advantage into the break.
Shingler extended that lead to six, but that is as good as it would get for the Pro12 side, who had Wales' Sam Warburton at blind-side flanker after impressing in the position for Wales during the Six Nations Championship.
England coach Eddie Jones was in the stands at Kingholm to see May, the only Gloucester player he called upon for their triumphant Six Nations campaign, cross for the first of the hosts' four second-half scores to seal an ultimately convincing win that sees them progress to play La Rochelle - a side they met twice and beat once in the group stage this term.
Gloucester: Marshall; Sharples, Trinder, Twelvetrees, May; Burns, Heinz (capt); McAllister, Hibbard, Hohneck, Savage, Thrush, Moriarty, Rowan, Morgan.
Replacements: Matu'u, Thomas, Afoa, Galarza, Ludlow, Braley, Atkinson, Purdy.
Cardiff Blues: Morgan; Cuthbert, Lee-Lo, Shingler, Scully; Anscombe, Williams; Jenkins (capt), Dacey, Filise, Earle, Hoeata, Warburton, Navidi, Williams.
Replacements: Rees, Domachowski, Assiratti, Cook, Bennett, Williams, Halaholo, Summerhill.
Referee: Pascal Gauzere (France)
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Team GB captain Kate Richardson-Walsh and wife Helen have become the first same-sex married couple to win an Olympic gold in the same final.

The win over the Dutch means Kate, 36, and her spouse, 34, are also thought to be the first married couple since 1900 to win medals on the same team.
The pair played their first Olympic Games together at Sydney in 2000.
Fellow members of Reading Hockey Club have described them as an "inspiration".
They became the first British married couple to win gold since Cyril and Dorothy Wright in the sailing in 1920.
Helen, from West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, who scored in the penalty shoot-out, said: "To win a gold medal is a dream come true - to win it standing next to my wife is really special."
Their romance reportedly began after Beijing in 2008 and the couple wed in 2013 after playing in the bronze-winning London 2012 squad.
Ahead of the Rio Games, Manchester-born Kate spoke to the BBC about their relationship.
"It's not that interesting for us, but I can see why it's interesting to everyone else.
"When we're at work, we're Kate and Helen, just two separate players, and the coaches and players are fantastic about treating us in that way.
"And when we're away from the pitch, we're a couple.
"What has changed since I first came in the team is that it's just accepted - some of the team have boyfriends, some have girlfriends - it literally doesn't matter.
"The best thing is the reaction we've had from the public in that we've helped people feel more confident in themselves. People feel it's OK to come out as bisexual or gay or lesbian - that's been the best thing for me," she said.
At Reading Hockey Club, fellow members watched the nail-biting climax to the Olympic final.
Club coach Andy Watts described them as "great role models".
Georgia Bootha said: "They've done so much for this club over the years - everyone looks up to them so much.
"How hard they work and what they do for hockey is amazing. Hopefully it'll really inspire people to come and play."


A bag used by US astronaut Neil Armstrong to collect the first ever samples of the Moon has sold at auction in New York for $1.8m (Â£1.4m).

The outer decontamination bag from the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was bought at Sotheby's by an anonymous bidder.
The white bag still carries traces of Moon dust and small rocks.
The auction comes after a legal battle over the ownership of the only artefact from the Apollo 11 mission which was in private hands.
After the spacecraft returned to Earth, nearly all the equipment was sent to the Smithsonian museums.
However, the bag was left in a box at the Johnson Space Center because of an inventory error.
It was then misidentified during a government auction, selling for just $995 to a lawyer from Illinois in 2015.
Nasa later tried to get the bag back, but earlier this year a federal judge ruled that it legally belonged to the buyer, who then offered it for sale at Sotheby's.