Fanzones opened on Saturday as Wales prepared for its first major tournament match in 58 years.

Wales took on Slovakia in the Euro 2016 tournament in France and won 2-1.
A Cardiff fanzone with a giant screen has been set up in the city's Bute Park while matches are also being shown in Swansea's Castle Square.
About 24,000 Welsh fans had tickets for the game in Bordeaux and about 700 left from Cardiff Airport on Saturday morning with some reporting hold-ups.
First Minister Carwyn Jones earlier wished the Welsh team good luck "after 58 years and so many near misses".
"Wales will be represented in a tournament watched by billions of football fans across the world this summer. It's incredible, unprecedented and completely deserved," he said.
"Pob lwc [good luck] boys, we're with you all the way."
And Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "Qualification for the tournament is a remarkable achievement and the people of Wales are right behind the team.
"I am thrilled to be in Bordeaux for tonight's game against Slovakia to see Wales compete on the big stage."
Some fans flying into France on Saturday morning encountered delays.
A 30 minute hold-up at Bergerac airport meant fans had to wait until 14:30 BST for a train to Bordeaux which arrived about an hour before kick-off.
Meanwhile, supporters were also warned about a transport strike in Bordeaux which has affected some trams, although one from the city centre to the stadium was still running.
Officers from South Wales Police, who are working in the city, have been tweeting travel advice.
A family from Deeside living in Bordeaux told BBC Wales they were "excited" for the influx - as a lot of their neighbours think their native land is in England.
Patricia Davey said: "Wales as a country isn't really well known, sadly. You mention Wales and people look at you quizzically and say, 'where's that? That's England, isn't it?'
"I might come down and watch it on the big screen [in the fanzone]. You've got to cheer on Wales."


A County Down man is in hospital three months after being struck by lightning, a court has heard.

George Allen, 36, had been due to attend Lisburn Magistrate's Court on Monday.
However, his barrister said that he was still in hospital following the incident in June.
Mr Allen, from Rampart Street in Dromore, is accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent on 5 June this year.
He first appeared in court the day after the alleged incident and was granted bail, but that afternoon, when attending his children's school sports day, he was struck by lightning.
Staff had to use a defibrillator on Mr Allen, who was left in a critical condition in intensive care.
He spent a month in a coma after the freak accident at Killowen Primary School in Lisburn, County Antrim.
His son and daughter were also hurt but were discharged from hospital within a few days.
In court on Monday, a prosecuting lawyer said the Public Prosecution Service had received medical evidence on the alleged victim, but they were still awaiting the summary of Mr Allen's police interviews, which would be required before any decision was taken regarding the prosecution.
The case was adjourned until 24 October.


A study of behaviour on the Weakest Link quiz show suggests there is a basic instinct to be nicest to those closest to you, psychologists say.

A team from the University of Lincoln looked at 72 shows, and at who was picked to go out.
They found they were much less likely to select those standing next to them.
An independent psychologist said the study showed people close by were seen as "team-mates", and so were less likely to be picked.
The findings were presented to the Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics (SABE) conference in Granada, Spain.
The team say that TV quiz shows are a good forum for observing social behaviour outside of the laboratory.
They analysed voting patterns in the first round of the show, comparing how votes would be expected to fall based on probability against how votes were cast in reality.
They found the bias against voting for your neighbour was strongest when there was not an obvious "weak link".
The findings echo a 1960s test by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram which found people were more reluctant to administer a punishment they believed to be an electric shock to another person if they were located in the same room.
When the "punishment" could be delivered remotely from another room, that inhibition was reduced.
Dr Paul Goddard, senior lecturer in the school of psychology, who led the research, said: "In the show contestants must make a choice about who is the worst player based on two very different sources of information.
"The primary and most reliable source comes from the game itself. If one player gets all their questions wrong, it's a fairly straightforward decision to vote them off.
"The quandary for contestants arises when there is no clear consensus about who is the worst player, such as in rounds where several players get just one question wrong.
"In these circumstances contestants have to rely on a secondary source of information - their own judgement. This is where bias can really come to the fore.
"We found strong evidence of a 'neighbour avoidance effect' which supported our prediction that spatial proximity would influence players' decision-making."
Michael Guttridge, of the British Psychological Society, said: "Contestants either side of us they are probably near enough to be considered as part of the same team or group and on our side, whereas people further way might be considered as part of a different group or team.
"You will probably look stronger if you still have people either side of you than if you are standing there neighbourless.
"This might have echoes of childhood games where two people are picking teams which then gather around them.
The Manchester-based psychologist added: "In business meetings supporters often take up positions either side of the person speaking and people sitting opposite are seen as more oppositional."


The North Korean leader has delivered a new year's message on state TV, the first such broadcast for 19 years.

Kim Jong-un, in power since 2011, spoke of the need to improve the economy and also to reunify the Koreas, warning that confrontation only led to war.
The speech came less than a month after the conservative Park Geun-hye was elected president of South Korea.
In 1994, Mr Kim's grandfather, Kim Il-sung, spoke on radio and TV. His son, Kim Jong-il rarely spoke in public.
In addition to Mr Kim's televised address, new year's messages were issued in the form of a joint editorial by North Korea's three main newspapers.
Kim Jong-un said 2013 would be a year of creations and changes, calling for a "radical turnabout" that would transform the impoverished, isolated state into an "economic giant" and raise living standards.
By Lucy WilliamsonBBC News, Seoul
After a year of rocket launches and international isolation, the new year speech seemed to refocus North Korea's sights on the economy.
There were the usual tributes to military strength, but less open hostility than in some previous speeches.   Instead the focus was a call by the North Korean leader for the country to become "an economic giant".  It was, he said, the "most important taskâ€¦ in the present stage of building a thriving socialist economy".
Pyongyang has become increasingly isolated internationally over the past few years, and has become heavily reliant on China for its economic survival. With a new president due to take office in South Korea next month, some analysts saw signs of conciliation.  President-elect Park Geun-hye has said she wants to rebuild trust, and - eventually - economic and diplomatic contacts with the North.
In the new year speech, her counterpart in Pyongyang called for an end to confrontation between the North and the South, and for both sides to "respect... and implement" previously-agreed declarations.
Many in the South - and in Washington - will want to see concrete evidence of Pyongyang's willingness to do that.
But while he said confrontation between the North and the South should be removed, Mr Kim stressed that military power remained a national priority.
"The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country," he said.
The message coincides with UN Security Council discussions on how to punish Pyongyang for a recent long-range rocket launch.
Under Mr Kim's leadership, North Korea has conducted two long-range rocket launches - actions condemned by the US and Pyongyang's neighbours as banned tests of missile technology.
The launch in April failed, but December's attempt appears to have been a success, placing a satellite into orbit.
The US, Japan and South Korea are seeking a response in the UN Security Council, which banned North Korea from missile tests after nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
Kim Jong-un saw in the new year by watching a musical performance with his wife, North Korean state media reported.


Actor Patrick Macnee, star of The Avengers TV series, has died in California at the age of 93.

The Briton, best known for playing John Steed in the 1960s television spy show, died at home with his family at his bedside, his son Rupert said.
Macnee, who served in the Royal Navy during World War Two, also played roles in theatre, appearing on Broadway.
Avengers co-star Dame Diana Rigg paid tribute, saying: "Patrick was a very dear man and I owe him a great deal".
A statement on Mcnee's website read: "Wherever he went, he left behind a trove of memories."
He died peacefully at his home in California's Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Rupert said.
Born in London, Macnee grew up in Berkshire and was educated at Summerfields Preparatory School and Eton.
At the age of 11, he acted in Henry V opposite a young Sir Christopher Lee. He first appeared in the West End while still in his teens.
He played a number of minor roles - including one in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film version of Hamlet - before rising to fame in the original Avengers series between 1961 and 1969.
The series developed a cult following around the world, with Macnee portraying the quintessentially English and mysterious super-spy John Steed.
Steed was known for his dress sense, always donning a bowler hat and carrying an umbrella, which was used as a secret weapon. He never used a gun.
His co-stars during the initial run included Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson.
Macnee returned when that series was reprised as The New Avengers in the 1970s, appearing alongside Joanna Lumley's Purdey and Gareth Hunt's Mike Gambit.
Later, he starred on Broadway in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, touring internationally with that play and several other productions.
He also appeared in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, playing an ally of Roger Moore's Bond character, and made a cameo appearance as the head of a record company in This is Spinal Tap.
Sir Roger tweeted: "So very sad to hear Pat Macnee has left us.
"We were mates from 1950s and I have so many happy memories of working with him. A true gent."
Thorson, who played assistant Tara King, remembered Macnee as "a paradox".
"He was the best-dressed man on television and a nudist in real life," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"He was always upbeat. He had great stories and great detail and wonderful energy," she continued. "Patrick [had] a very happy and long life and the most wonderful children who took the greatest of care of him, in the last decade in particular."
Macnee also featured as a guest star in dozens of British, American and Australian TV productions; and made a cameo in Oasis's video for Don't Look Back In Anger.
He scored a top 10 hit of his own in 1990, with Kinky Boots - a novelty song recorded with Avengers co-star Honor Blackman - which was championed by Radio 1's then-breakfast DJ Simon Mayo.
In a 2014 interview with The Lady magazine, Macnee said he believed The Avengers was a success because it "did something different and did it better."
He told the magazine: "It was beautifully written, the ideas were very good, way ahead of their time and they incorporated fantasies for people who dreamed of doing exciting things."
Macnee had two children, son Rupert and daughter Jennifer, and one grandson.
He was married three times, including to actress Katherine Woodville, with whom he acted in The Avengers.
He had been a US citizen since 1959, according to the AP news agency.


Shares in Supergroup, the owner of clothing retailer Superdry, have jumped 10% on news that profits for the first half of the year were sharply higher.

Profit before tax for the six months to October was Â£19.3m, up 54.4% compared with the same period a year earlier.
Total revenue during the period for the British firm, known for its hoodies and jackets, was up 30.8% at Â£172.1m.
By noon, shares had surged by more than 10% to reach 1,671 pence per share.
Supergroup said that womenswear was its fastest growing range during the period, while the growth in its online business, along with newly opened stores worldwide, helped boost profits.
The company also said that sales were boosted by its new premium collection, advertised by actor Idris Elba from TV series 'The Wire'.
However, it cut its earnings outlook for its US division, which it expects to remain loss-making until 2017.
Supergroup now has 244 stores globally.
Chief executive Euan Sutherland said: "Whilst comparatives in the second half are more challenging, the development of Superdry into a global lifestyle brand is proceeding with pace."
Analysts added a note of caution, saying that high street conditions are tougher, with more competition.


A missing California mother of two has been found three weeks after she was abducted while out jogging.

Sherri Papini was still bound with restraints when she managed to flag down a car on Thursday some 140 miles (225km) from where she was last seen.
Police, who say she was released by her captors, are looking for two women in connection with her disappearance.
Ms Papini's husband had reported her missing after she failed to pick up their children from day care.
The motive behind her abduction in Redding, northern California, on 2 November, is still unclear.
County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told reporters Ms Papini was receiving medical attention for non-life threatening injuries at a nearby hospital.
"We are very thankful on this day [Thanksgiving] that she was found safe and reunited with her family.''
A $50,000 (Â£40,200) reward is being offered to find those responsible for Ms Papini's capture.
Investigators had interviewed hundreds of local residents regarding her disappearance and received some 400 tips.


Championship side Ipswich Town have "no chance" of signing on-loan top scorer Tom Lawrence on a more permanent deal, according to manager Mick McCarthy.

The 23-year-old Wales forward has scored 11 goals during his season-long loan at Portman Road from Premier League side Leicester City.
"I think Tom will have his heart set on the Premier League and I think he'll get that," said McCarthy.
"If Leicester are going to sell him, there'd be a lot of takers."
He continued to BBC Radio Suffolk: "Tom has been brilliant and we've all loved him, everybody's really appreciated what he's done, but I think he has his heart set on Premier League football and why wouldn't he?"
The Tractor Boys were assured of Championship safety thanks to Easter Monday's 3-1 defeat of promotion hopefuls Newcastle United.
And McCarthy hinted that there could be a large turnover of players this summer as the club go into their 16th consecutive season in England's second tier.
McCarthy said: "It's been tentative before being completely safe. I'll sit down and talk to (owner) Marcus (Evans) now about what we want to do and hopefully we can come up with something.
"But there's a real opportunity to freshen it up because there are a lot of players out of contract and we've quite a few players on loan.
"Do they want to stay? Do we want them? Can we have them? Can we sign them? There's all those things. We'll be losing a few players."


Part of a Dorset beach has been cordoned off following a "large" cliff fall, Portland Coastguard has said.

The landslip at East Beach, West Bay, happened at about 14:30 GMT.
Coastguards, the fire service and police were at the scene and people have been urged to stay away from the cliffs.
It is not yet known if anyone was hurt. A coastguard helicopter was used "to determine the state of the remaining cliffs", Solent Coastguard said.
Watch manager Andy Jenkins said: "We did have a report that two people were missing in the area, but they have now been accounted for."
He added Dorset County Council were sending a geologist to assess the site.
The slip at East Beach is about a mile along the coast from where Charlotte Blackman, from Derbyshire, died in the Burton Bradstock landslip in 2012.
Another slip at Burton Bradstock happened in January.


Celtic came from behind to claim a point from their Champions League Group C clash with Borussia Monchengladbach in Germany.

Moussa Dembele's penalty cancelled out Lars Stindl's opener and kept alive Celtic's hopes of progressing from Group C.
It is only the third time in 29 Champions League group games away from home that Celtic have avoided defeat.
Former Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner rates the performances of the Celtic players against the Bundesliga outfit.
Craig Gordon 7
Didn't do anything wrong, made a couple of saves and had no chance for the goal.
Cristian Gamboa 7
Played very well after the first 10 minutes when he was giving the ball away. Once he settled down, he was up and down the right wing and did quite well.
Mikael Lustig 7
Solid at the back. Any problems he had were more from midfielders giving the ball away in bad areas.
Erik Sviatchenko 7
Similar to Lustig, although maybe for the Stindl goal he could have closed down the ball a bit better, but he still gets a seven.
Emilio Izaguirre 8
Played very well defensively, stuck to his task and did everything asked of him. Stayed in position and didn't bomb forward.
Scott Brown 7
Was on his own in the middle of the park for a lot of the time. It was a difficult night for him up against Stindl but he led the team quite well.
Stuart Armstrong 7
He made some mistakes but he went looking for the ball. He ran 7.2km - more than any other Celtic player. It's not his natural position - almost a holding midfielder role - but he'll learn from the match.
James Forrest 6
Didn't affect the game enough from a positive point of view. He worked away but a little bit more is expected from him and it wasn't a surprise when he was taken off.
Tom Rogic 6
Like Forrest, he could've affected the game a little bit more positively. He's having a wonderful season but in Germany he didn't quite get himself into positions in which spectators are accustomed to seeing him in.
Scott Sinclair 7
He hit the post with a fantastic effort and had a couple of other chances despite being up against a very good full-back. He worked away tirelessly all night and always looked a threat.
Moussa Dembele 7
His composure and also his part in winning the penalty were terrific. To go up and stick away a penalty in the Champions League was not easy after missing one in Barcelona.
Patrick Roberts 7 (replaced Forrest)
He was involved in the big moments: he put the pass through for Dembele's goal and for Callum McGregor's late chance. To come on and make an impact is all you can ask of a substitute.
Callum McGregor 6 (replaced Rogic)
He had that big chance - he could have been the hero. He should have scored or picked the pass to Sinclair. Probably didn't have long enough to make a huge contribution but he'll be disappointed with the miss.
Liam Henderson 6 (replaced Gamboa)
Came on late in the game. Looked nice and lively and had one shot that he curled just wide.


Celtic Connections has launched its programme for 2016, which includes 2,500 musicians from around the world.

The January festival of music and culture in Glasgow features concerts, ceilidhs and talks over 18 days.
Those taking part include Rickie Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams, The Unthanks, Karine Polwart and Robert Plant.
Speaking as the programme was launched, Ian Smith of Creative Scotland said Celtic Connections was "one of Scotland's creative treasures".
Artistic Director Donald Shaw said: "For 2016, we are bringing superstars and cult heroes, new talent, and artists who were legends long before the first Celtic Connections was staged.
"This year we weave stories of pilgrimage, of crossing continents, we celebrate anniversaries and the Auld Alliance."
Ian Smith of Creative Scotland added: "Celtic Connections is one of the world's great music festivals and to have established such a global presence in a comparatively short time underlines its place as one of Scotland's creative treasures.
"Every January we gather in Glasgow in mid-winter to be thrilled and inspired by great music from around the world, but with its roots and traditions firmly in Scotland.
"With Showcase Scotland at its core, Celtic Connections represents all that is great about Scotland's cultural identity expressed so brilliantly through its music."
Celtic Connections 2016 starts on 14 January.


A woman who captured the hearts of many South Africans for her brave battle against premature aging disorder progeria has died aged 18.

Doctors had said Ontlametse Phalatse would not make it past the age of 14.
President Jacob Zuma was among those who conveyed their condolences to the family of "the special child of South Africa". She was known as the "First Lady" by her friends and family.
Local broadcaster Enca called her the country's "champion of positivity".
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In a tribute her family wrote: "We will miss you sorely, Tsontso, our first lady. May you find eternal peace among the angels. Rest in Peace".
She called herself the first lady because she was the first black woman in South Africa to be diagnosed with progeria.
Ontlametse loved life, lived it to the full, and never wished that she was born in any other way.
This is what South Africans will remember her for.
She rose to prominence a few years ago when a documentary was made of her life.
Ms Phalatse used her new-found fame to motivate people to get on with their lives. In the process, she touched the hearts of many South Africans.
The country got to share in some of her special moments and milestones - her 16th birthday, a school graduation ball and more recently her 18th birthday party spent with President Jacob Zuma.
Ontlametse died surrounded by her family, who described her as having a "courageous spirit". Her legacy at 18 is not taking life's precious moments for granted.
President Zuma led a minute's silence for Ms Phalatse on his 75th birthday and said he had planned to give her a car.
"A brave young fighter has fallen. May her spirit inspire all others living with disabilities or facing any difficulty, to soldier on as she did and live life to the fullest. We are really proud of her," he said in a statement.
Sources: Medical News Today, US National Library of Medicine, Mayo Clinic


A security alert at an Army base in Lisburn in County Antrim has ended.

Bomb disposal officers examined a suspicious item found at Thiepval Barracks but it was found to be "nothing untoward", police said.
A number of homes had been evacuated, but people have been allowed to return.
Part of the Belsize Road, which had been closed, has now reopened.


A third dead whale has been found by experts investigating the deaths of two others found along the Suffolk coast.

A 30ft (9m) decomposed whale washed up on the beach at Felixstowe on Sunday and the body of a minke whale was spotted near Orford on Saturday.
Scientists from the Cetaceans Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) say there is now a third dead whale off the coast.
They do not think the deaths are linked.
The third whale floating off the Suffolk coast is thought to be a sperm whale, Rob Deaville, from CSIP, said.
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He believes the whale on the beach at Felixstowe is a fin whale and a large injury on its body is the result of it being struck by a vessel "some time ago, perhaps hundreds of miles away".
CSIP - which attends cases of whales, porpoises and dolphins that become stranded on the UK coastline - is currently examining the Felixstowe whale.
It is too decomposed to carry out a full post-mortem test but samples have been taken to assist with analysis in terms of whale population, Mr Deaville said.
The Orford whale stranded on mud flats on the tidal River Ore will be "tricky to get to", Mr Deaville said.
However, he does not believe the deaths are in any way related.
"Three very different species, and in my opinion, they're not linked," he said.
"It's a series of coincidental events.
"We see hundreds of strandings a year, it just happens that these three are in close proximity."
A spokeswoman for Suffolk Coastal and Waveney Councils said contractors were expected to remove the whale from the beach at Felixstowe on Wednesday.
It is not yet known when the body of the Orford whale will be moved.


Scotland's police watchdog has begun an investigation after a 33-year-old man died in police custody at the weekend.

The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner has been asked by prosecutors to look into the circumstances leading up to the death of Steven Chesney.
Mr Chesney died at Wishaw General Hospital after becoming unwell on arrival at Motherwell police station.
The watchdog will report its findings to the Crown Office.
Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said: "Our thoughts are with the family at this tragic time.
"We can confirm that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has instructed the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) to carry out an independent investigation into the circumstances leading up to the death of a 33 year old man at Wishaw General Hospital who became unwell on arrival in police custody within Motherwell Police office on Sunday 1st May 2016."


A war of words has erupted after Labour questioned whether the government would meet its target of spending 2% of GDP on defence.

Labour said it had discovered an £800m dip in spending in Budget papers.
But a defence minister said Labour had got its sums wrong - overall spending had not gone down but money had moved from one part of its budget to another.
Labour has written to Defence Secretary Michael Fallon to seek assurances he is committed to Nato's spending target.
Shadow defence minister Toby Perkins asked about the effect of the apparent cut to spending "on our already stretched ability to respond to demands that our government places on our armed forces".
But Philip Dunne, Minister for Defence Procurement, said: "Labour have made two fundamental errors.
"Firstly, they have used the figures from the March 2015 Budget instead of the July 2015 Budget that followed the election. Secondly, they failed to include capital spending.
"The defence budget in the July 2015 Budget was £34.9bn and latest estimates are higher than that at £35.2bn.
"Thankfully, when they get the numbers wrong now, it doesn't cause the damage it did when they ran the country."
Labour stuck to its claim that the government was spending less on defence than a year ago.
Mr Perkins said: "Even if you combine the capital and current spending projections of the Budget 2016 and compare them with the next most recent budget, given at the Autumn Statement, there is still a shortfall of £200m.
"The government claim it is an 'underspend', but it is clear that this is actually the new normality that Britain's armed forces will be forced to deal with over the next few years."
The UK is currently one of only five Nato members, along with the US, Estonia, Greece and Poland, to meet the alliance's budget target - which recommends that a minimum 2% of a country's GDP be spent on defence.
Before last year's general election, David Cameron would not be drawn on whether the UK would continue to meet the target in the next few years given the scale of the public spending cuts earmarked to eliminate the deficit.
But in his July Budget, Chancellor George Osborne said the UK would meet the Nato pledge on a "properly measured" basis and said overall spending on defence would be ring-fenced, getting a real terms 0.5% annual increase in its budget every year until 2020.
US President Barack Obama was reported to have warned Mr Cameron that the UK would have to pay its "fair share" and spend 2% of GDP on defence.


Boris Johnson is one of those few politicians whose notoriety gives their utterances a wider audience than Westminster.

It is why he was such an effective advocate for Leave during the referendum. And it is why the prime minister will use him to sell the Brexit deal when eventually it is struck.
So it will have come as no surprise to Mr Johnson to have attracted the attention this week of the actor Ewan McGregor - even if he might not have appreciated why.
The star of Trainspotting and Star Wars, who has one million Twitter followers, used his social media account to criticise the foreign secretary for offering "an impossible Brexit vision".
The cause of Mr McGregor's ire was Mr Johnson's interview with a Czech newspaper in which he suggested the UK might leave the EU customs union. This might not sound too controversial until you realise that doing that after Brexit is not actually government policy.
Downing Street has deliberately kept its options open, leading some MPs to think that staying in the customs union will be part of a transitional period before full Brexit. Mr Johnson also claimed the free movement of people was not a fundamental EU freedom, even though it was set out in the Treaty of Rome.
To some Conservative MPs, this is Boris being Boris: speaking truth clumsily and causing unnecessary offence. To others, it is Mr Johnson deliberately pushing the boundaries, trying to nudge Downing Street down a path that he and other Brexiteers wish to travel.
Either way, the interview gave the prime minister's opponents a big stick with which to beat her at question time in the House of Commons. One MP said that Theresa May will not have liked that and pointed out that at no time did she refer to Mr Johnson or praise him during her replies.
But one Downing Street source said: "If you were to sit down with the PM tonight for a whisky, she would not tell you that Boris Johnson is a problem. Her big problem is getting Whitehall to deliver what she wants."
There are some around the prime minister, however, who do not mind Mr Johnson taking some flak for the complexities and contradictions that leaving the EU will entail. This week the Dutch Finance Minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, told Newsnight that Mr Johnson was saying things that are "intellectually impossible".
The Italian economic development minister Carlo Calenda accused Mr Johnson of being "insulting" for suggesting that Italy should support a trade deal with the UK to avoid losing sales in Prosecco sparkling wine. One source said: "Boris is like a cut-off, absorbing some of the noise that would otherwise come our way."
That may be but it might still a problem for No 10 if the foreign secretary is unnecessarily picking fights with the EU when he should be building bridges. Some EU diplomats say his chummy way of addressing them in a few mangled words of their language can be patronising rather than engaging.
Few think he has much influence over the Brexit process. He has also upset some of his counterparts, the most important being Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany. This has not gone unnoticed in Whitehall.
Other government officials are more positive. They say Mr Johnson is popular in the Foreign Office in the way his predecessors were not. The junior staff like the way he says hello to them. The senior staff empathise with his curious intellect and linguistic hunger. And they like the way he takes his briefs seriously and masters the detail quickly.
The problem, some say, is that Mr Johnson is bored. He is being kept on a tight leash by Downing Street. No big interviews allowed, no big speeches planned, just endless "grip and grins" with visiting politicians and "get to know you" goodwill trips abroad. There are only so many times you can say that Britain will be engaged with the world post-Brexit.
So the hunt is on for a role for the foreign secretary, a focus for his energy. One idea doing the rounds is for Mr Johnson to throw himself into shaping the thinking, as much as he can, of the incoming Trump administration.
There is, the argument goes, a vacuum in much of the president-elect's foreign policy and it will be up others to fill that gap.
Others doubt the foreign secretary has been in his post long enough to have a settled world view that he can pass on to Mr Trump. What is Mr Johnson's real strategic view, they ask, on Russia, the Middle East and global trade?
Yet, astonishing as it may seem, in a short while Mr Johnson will be one of Europe's longer-serving foreign secretaries. By the end of next May, France, Germany and Italy will almost certainly have new foreign ministers who will be working alongside an equally new American secretary of state.
Despite that, some officials note that Mr Johnson has yet to be tested by a big foreign policy crisis, such as the Russian incursion into Ukraine. Will he have the clout to get Britain into the room, to shape the policy, to impose his will on a fast moving event?
That, they say, will be the time to judge the foreign secretary rather than blaming him personally for the failure of the whole government thus far to agree a strategy on Brexit.


Moeen Ali and Stuart Broad helped give England the advantage over South Africa on day two of the first Test at Lord's.

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Off-spinner Moeen and seamer Broad each took two wickets to reduce the Proteas to 104-4.
Temba Bavuma (48 not out) and Theunis de Bruyn (48) added 99 before James Anderson removed De Bruyn late on to leave the tourists 214-5, 244 behind.
Moeen (87) and Broad (57 not out) earlier took England from their overnight 357-5 to 458 all out.
Broad also shared a riotous last-wicket partnership of 45 with Anderson off only 27 deliveries.
When England took three wickets for 22 runs either side of tea, South Africa were in danger of subsiding, only to be steadied by Bavuma and De Bruyn.
The fifth-wicket pair looked set to reach the close, but Anderson had De Bruyn caught behind to leave England in the ascendancy on a surface showing sporadic signs of turn and low bounce.
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Moeen has batted in every position from one to nine for England and scored four Test centuries in 2016.
However, his bowling average has got worse each year since his debut and he has nominally been replaced as the number one spinner by slow left-armer Liam Dawson.
Here, he reached 2,000 runs and 100 wickets on the same day. It has taken him 38 Tests to do that particular double - only Tony Greig has done it faster for England.
The left-hander was fluent with the bat, moving from his overnight 61 before being bowled by Kagiso Rabada.
He then saw left-armer Dawson, in his second Test, used ahead of him and return an expensive 0-45 from eight overs.
Moeen found turn to trap Hashim Amla lbw for 29 and had captain Dean Elgar caught at short leg for 54, accounting for the two most experienced batsmen in the South Africa line-up.
Broad already had opener Heino Kuhn held at first slip by Alastair Cook when he returned to pin JP Duminy lbw with a full delivery to push South Africa firmly on to the ropes.
The stylish Bavuma and De Bruyn, in only his second Test, began tentatively, but gradually blunted the England attack. Dawson was targeted, Bavuma eased the ball through the off side and De Bruyn scored of his pads.
Joe Root, captaining England for the first time, shuffled his bowlers and showed occasional invention with his field.
"Root was clever at times and put in some good fields but almost too many - he was bowling a lot of people not enough," said former captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special.
Earlier in the day, Amla was greeted with an unconventional short cover, while at one stage Anderson was frustrated to be yanked from the attack after a spell lasting only two overs.
But Anderson, England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker, had the final say. With two overs remaining, he found movement down the slope and De Bruyn's flat-footed prod was edged to Jonny Bairstow.
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Root, 184 not out after his first day as captain, was caught behind off Morne Morkel for 190 in the third over of the day, with Dawson leg before two balls later.
Broad should have been lbw to Vernon Philander on four - South Africa chose not to review - and took full advantage.
What began with edges and inside edges turned into clean hitting - Morkel was hooked for consecutive sixes as Broad registered his first Test half-century for four years.
Anderson joined in - his hook off Kagiso Rabada was only his third six in 123 Tests - and by the time he edged Morkel behind, England had scored 101 runs and lost their last five wickets in 18.3 overs.
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BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "A dry pitch is producing some uneven bounce and also some slow spin, suggesting that England's 458 could be a winning total."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: "It's a day when England have got their noses in front - they've played well.
"Broad was very good with the bat, the way he attacked South Africa. They lost their discipline. Tail-end cameos are massive momentum-changers.
England all-rounder Moeen Ali on TMS: "I'm just pleased to have played so many Test matches. I'm much happier with the bowling stats - I never thought I would get 100 wickets.
"I feel like a big part of the team. I know I'm still a little inconsistent but I feel like I can change games. At number seven, I go in and play on instinct.
"Rooty has asked me to change my mindset, to take wickets rather than worry about runs. That's what I did when I first came into the side."
South Africa batsman Hashim Amla on TMS: "We're in need of a comeback. England were in trouble and they managed to get to more than 450. We have to get to score as close to their score as possible.
"It's turning a little bit, so it will probably turn more. I don't think the wicket will speed up, so it will probably get more difficult to bat."


A 10-year-old boy who was missing overnight in Cumbria has returned safely to his home in Workington.

Officers and relatives searched throughout the night for the boy from Salterbeck.
The youngster had last been seen at 20:00 BST on Saturday in Poole Road in the town.
People were advised to check gardens and outbuildings and police said members of the public had asked to be involved in the search.


Amazon has said it may conduct more of its drone research outside the US because of strict regulation of the unmanned aircraft.

The firm has been waiting since July for approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to test drones near Seattle, reports Reuters.
Amazon announced proposals for a drone delivery service called Amazon Prime Air in December 2013.
The FAA has been contacted by the BBC for comment.
"Without approval of our testing in the United States, we will be forced to continue expanding our Prime Air R&D footprint abroad," wrote Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president of global public policy, in a letter to the FAA.
Amazon wants to use small drones to deliver packages up to 2.3kg (5lb) in weight.
The service would enable customers to receive a purchase within 30 minutes of placing an order.
Six drone operators were approved by the US to carry out commercial flight tests at around the same time as Prime Air was announced but Amazon was not among them.
Successful applicants included the University of Alaska, Griffiss International Airport in New York and North Dakota's Department of Commerce.
The FAA said it considered "geography, climate, location of ground infrastructure, research needs, airspace use, safety, aviation experience and risk" in selecting the operators.
Amazon already has a drone R&D lab in Cambridge in the UK.
Google and DHL are also exploring the use of drones as couriers.
During the summer, Google demonstrated its service using a fixed-wing craft and in September DHL started a regular drone-delivery service to an island in the North Sea.


An independent inquiry should be held into claims of bullying against a company boss, a union has said.

Six former employees at Leeds and Partners, set up to bring investment to the city, have lodged formal grievances against chief executive Lurene Joseph.
Unison said an inquiry should be held to investigate the management and leadership of the company.
Leeds and Partners said it could not comment while an investigation was taking place.
The statement of grievance accuses Ms Joseph, who has been in post since May 2012, of systematic and sustained bullying, victimisation and misuse of power.
Another nine former employees have written supportive statements.
Dean Harper, area organiser for Unison, said: "We would ask now the complaints have been received that the employer looks at commissioning an independent inquiry into the management and leadership of Leeds and Partners because they are of a serious nature these allegations."
Leeds City Council, the company's main funder, confirmed the grievance had been submitted.
A spokesman said the authority took all grievances very seriously and the matter would be dealt with through the proper procedures.


Police have issued an e-fit of a man suspected of sexually assaulting two six-year-olds at Legoland.

The two girls were "touched inappropriately" during a visit to the attraction, in Windsor, on Thursday.
Detectives have urged others who visited the resort to check their photos to see if the man is in the background.
He is described as white, under 5ft 8in-tall, wearing dark slim-fitting trousers, a dark t-shirt and trainers.
The assaults happened between 12:15 BST and 12:30 at Castaway Camp in the Pirate Shores area of the attraction.
Det Insp Penny Mackenzie of the Thames Valley Police child abuse investigation unit said: "We really need the public's help to find the offender and I would urge anyone who recognises the man in the e-fit to contact police.
"If you went to Legoland on Thursday please check any photographs you may have taken to see if you can spot anyone who looks like the man in this e-fit. If you have any photographs you want to share with us please email them.
"I would like to reiterate that such offences are extremely rare. We are conducting a detailed investigation and working closely with Legoland in order to find the offender."


India is marking three years since its last reported polio case, a landmark in the global battle against the disease.

It is seen as confirmation of one of India's biggest public health successes, achieved through a massive and sustained immunisation programme.
India's health minister hailed it as a "monumental milestone".
In 2012 the World Health Organisation (WHO) removed India from the list of polio-endemic countries. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria remain on it.
The list refers to countries in which the virus is circulating freely and the transmission of the infectious disease has not been stopped.
Despite India's success, health experts fear a resurgence of polio in other parts of the world.
"This monumental milestone was possible due to unwavering political will at the highest level, commitment of adequate financial resources, technological  innovation ... and the tireless efforts of millions of workers including more than 23 lakh (2.3 million) vaccinators," Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters.
The WHO is expected to formally certify India's polio-free status next month after testing its last samples.
"India has now set other important public health goals as a result of the confidence that the country has got from the successful eradication of polio," the WHO's Hamid Jafari told AFP news agency, citing a new goal to eradicate measles.
Only one case of polio was recorded in India in 2011, down from 741 in 2009.  It came from the eastern state of West Bengal in 2011 when an 18-month-old girl was found to have contracted the disease.
Rukshar Khatoon is now going to school and leads a "normal life" although she still suffers pain in her right leg, her doctors and parents told AFP.
"She can now stand on her feet and walk, but can't run. When her friends play, she remains a spectator," her father Abdul Shah said.
Source: IMB
* Polio is considered "non-endemic" in Chad
Mr Shah said it had been a "grave mistake" only to get his son vaccinated for polio, but not his two daughters.
After the eradication of smallpox in 1980, polio is the second disease in India that has been eliminated through immunisation.
Nearly 2.3 million volunteers vaccinate some 170 million children under five years of age in India during every round of immunisation.
Polio is capable of causing crippling disability or death within hours. It plagued societies in ancient times - and was present in more than 100 countries even in the 1980s, when it left 350,000 people paralysed each year.
Global cases have decreased since then as part of a mass eradication programme - to 372 last year.
Despite the quarter-century-long vaccination programme, experts fear it could make a comeback in countries riven by fighting.
Most of last year's cases were in conflict areas like Somalia and Syria, where polio had previously been eradicated.
Polio immunisation efforts have also been suspended in parts of Pakistan, where it has never been eliminated, because of attacks by militants who see the campaign as a Western plot.
BBC correspondents say unless immunisation is re-started promptly, polio could infect more children, with a risk it could spread beyond Pakistan's borders to India.
But Hamid Jafari at the WHO stressed polio cases were still falling in endemic countries.
"If the current trends of progress continue we could very easily see the end of polio in Afghanistan and Nigeria in 2014."


Former Falkirk MP Eric Joyce is to stand trial accused of attacking two teenagers and causing Â£200 worth of damage to groceries in a London shop.

The 54-year-old ex-Labour MP is accused of scuffling with two boys aged 14 and 15 during the confrontation in Camden on 17 October, 2014.
Joyce was not present at Westminster Magistrates' Court, but denies two counts of actual bodily harm and one of causing criminal damage.
He will appear on 1 May for trial.
Mr Joyce formerly represented Falkirk as a Labour member and later as an independent, but announced in 2012 that he would not seek re-election in May.


A Chinese technology billionaire is offering the world's most valuable education prize.

The Yidan Prize will award nearly $8m (£6.64m) every year to two research projects that have the potential to "transform" global education.
Charles Chen Yidan, who co-founded China's internet company, Tencent, wants to use the prize to scale up innovative education research projects and replicate them across the world.
Universities, governments and think tanks have reacted enthusiastically to the prize, and leading US institutions like Harvard and MIT have already submitted several nominations.
But the winner might not necessarily be a household name in education. Even a local project could win the prize, if it can prove it has been effective.
"As long as an idea is replicable in other regions, we can give them an award," says Mr Chen.
Mr Chen, now aged 45, became one of China's richest men after co-founding Tencent in 1998. In 2013, he stepped down to focus on educational philanthropy.
His interest in education came from his family. His grandmother was illiterate but insisted that Mr Chen's father got a good education.
Mr Chen himself studied applied chemistry as an undergraduate at Shenzhen University and took a master's degree in economic law at Nanjing University.
His educational philosophy has also been shaped by the "tremendous pressure" he felt while studying for China's "gaokao" higher education entrance examinations.
So he set up Wuhan College, a private university in China, which focuses on "whole-person development" rather than rote-learning and examinations.
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The college aims to train talented students to join China's technology industry.
Executives from Tencent helped to design the college's curriculum, recruit students and teach classes, so that its graduates are trained in the skills required by employers.
But Mr Chen was frustrated that this college only reached a limited number of students. So he decided a global education prize would be the best way to improve education for millions of young people.
Mr Chen, speaking on a tour of Europe to promote the prize to universities, governments, NGOs and think tanks, says he has already been inundated with nominations.
He wants the prize to focus the attention of universities and governments on future trends in education.
"We find that no matter whether people come from a rich or developing country, in the east or the west, they are talking about similar concerns," says Mr Yidan.
These are questions about children from rich families having the best access to education, and whether students in some countries face too many exams.
The prize-winners will be chosen by an independent committee of educational experts led by Dr Koichiro Matsuura, former director-general of Unesco.
They are looking for nominations that are innovative and sustainable, that reform existing educational structures, and that respond to what might be the future challenges for education.
But Mr Chen also has his own ideas about how to improve global education.
Speaking through a translator but occasionally breaking into English to reinforce a point, he said he wants to find ways to make the most of the expertise of retired teachers.
"They are a valuable resource that we need to make better use of," he says.
He thinks that collecting "big data" on students can improve the education that individual students receive.
"By analysing big data, we can find bespoke ways to help pupils in need," he says.
Unsurprisingly for the co-founder of an internet company, he believes that technology will transform education.
This latest education prize is now the most valuable.
The Global Teacher Prize, run by the Varkey Foundation, gives $1m (£830,000) annually to a teacher who has made an "outstanding contribution" to education.
The Broad Prize for Urban Education, which ran from 2002 to 2014, gave $1m every year to a school district in the US that significantly improved the academic performance of low-income and minority students.
The WISE Prize for education, supported by the Qatar Foundation, awards $500,000 (£415,000) to the winning laureate.
But is a prize really the best way to improve education?
Dan Sarofian-Butin, founding dean of the school of education and social policy at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, says that prize money can be a poor way of achieving change.
"Rather than give a one-off cash prize, I hope the Yidan Prize will nurture and sustain its winners over a period of years," he says.
"If you look at the TV show Dragons' Den, or Shark Tank in the US, what the winners really get is not just the investment money from the sharks, but their expertise, their network of contacts and firms, their foot in the door with many companies, and their national exposure.
"Likewise, a really powerful education prize would create a mechanism that fostered exactly such mentoring, networking, and sustainability."
Andreas Schleicher, education director at the OECD, welcomes the Yidan Prize as an incentive for innovation in education.
"When we surveyed teachers, less than a quarter of them said they would be recognised for greater levels of innovation," he said.
"The highly industrial and compliance-based organisation of education generally means that even where good ideas are generated, they don't scale and spread."
Nominations close at the end of March and the winners will be announced in September.


Snow has forced the cancellation of a "mass participation" opening show at the Big Burns Supper in Dumfries.

Hundreds of school children from around the region had been due to congregate at the town's Midsteeple.
However, organisers took the decision at 15:00 on Friday to cancel the show because of safety concerns.
Director Graham Main said he understood the community would be "very disappointed" after having "worked tirelessly" to prepare for the event.
"However, the safety of audience and participants has to be our first priority and it is with this in mind that the decision has been made to cancel," he said.
All other shows will be running as programmed.


New rules mean thousands of companies are being forced to come clean on the state of their gender pay gaps.

Some have already volunteered the information - with Schroders fund managers taking the plunge as the first FTSE100 company to go public.
The group revealed that fixed pay for its female staff was 33% lower on average than for their male staff, while there was a bonus gap of 66%.
It sounds like a bad start for #GenderPayGap, but Schroders said the figures "may be misleading".
In line with most companies in the financial services sector, there are fewer women in senior roles at the firm.
The company said: "Our analysis of comparable roles shows that we reward men and women fairly for similar work and that the gap reflects the lower representation of women at senior levels within the organisation".
If that's the case, what is the point of these figures? And how should you act on the facts?
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) calls it "unprecedented transparency".
For the first time, more than 9,000 companies employing about 15m people will have to measure, and then report, how they pay men and women.
It will affect nearly half the workforce in the UK.
Unequal pay for men and women doing the same job has been illegal for 40 years but overall the gender gap in the UK still stands at 18%.
Ann Francke, chief executive of the CMI, says:  "The answer lies in the fact that the gap, in most cases, is not the result of unequal pay.
"Instead, it reflects the failure to achieve a balance of men and women in senior management roles, or to attract and retain women in some of the better remunerated occupations".
It won't compare your salary with someone else's. You are already entitled to compare your contract to that of another employee of the opposite sex who is doing similar work under the Equal Pay Act.
What it will show you is:
Although it is not obligatory, the government is encouraging companies to publish an "action plan" alongside their figures, demonstrating the steps they will take to close the gender pay gap within their organisation.
Emma Codd, managing partner for talent at Deloitte UK, said: "For the first time people will be able to see the gender pay gap of large employers at one fixed point in time, with this gap measured and reported in a consistent way.
"They will be able to read about the causes of each company's gap and the actions that are being taken to close it; they will also be able to determine for themselves those companies that are serious about this and those that are not."
Any voluntary, private or public sector company with 250 or more workers has to publish its annual gender pay data from April 2017.
Companies must publish the data alongside a written statement on their website, as well as reporting the data to the government.
The government plans to publish a link to a portal with all the data on its campaign page.
Though there is no set date for each company to report the data, they must do so by April 2018.
Any employer that fails to publish its gender pay data would be breaking the law. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the power to enforce employers to comply with the regulations if they fail to do so.
If employees are concerned that their company is not complying or does not have an action plan, they should speak with their HR department.
If they or the HR department need further advice, they can check the guidance on the government's website or contact the conciliation service Acas for further help.
Some industries are expecting the data to show them up.
The industry body for engineering and manufacturing, EEF, says its partners - which include Tata Steel and Rolls-Royce - are bracing themselves.
But they say it's not due to a lack of support for women in the industry.
"Far from it," EEF's skills policy advisor Verity O'Keefe, said.
"Manufacturers offer enhanced and competitive maternity pay and schemes, flexible working and structured career and training plans."
She said the problem was that "just a handful" of engineering apprentices and graduates are female.
"Until we are able to move the dial on female recruitment we are unlikely to see much movement on closing the gender pay gap," she added.
But not every industry will have the same excuse, and the government hopes the new rules will open up a dialogue between employers and employees about pay gaps, and encourage employers should to use the data to make changes.
The Women's Equality Party says women can use the new law to push an action plan or address an unconscious bias within their company.
Hannah Peaker, chief of staff at the campaign group, said it would be an "eye-opener" for women who, once they see that inequality exists in "every sector and at every level", will start to address the issue.
Minister for Women and Equalities, Justine Greening, said helping women reach their full potential "isn't only the right thing to do, it makes good economic sense and is good for British business".
Sam Smethers, chief executive at Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality, says employers should see this as "an opportunity not a threat".
She said: "Through gender pay gap reporting they can address the productivity gap and get the best person for the job at the right level."
If companies don't act, women can use the data to find better opportunities - and vote with their feet.


Forty firefighters have been dealing with a blaze that has destroyed large parts of the Speyside Heather Centre at Dulnain Bridge, near Grantown on Spey.

The alarm was raised at about 08:20 and nine Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) crews were sent to the scene.
Local residents have been advised to keep doors and windows closed because of the amount of smoke from the fire.
SFRS said the blaze at the large site was under control but said crews would be at the scene until Friday evening.
The site includes a garden centre and restaurant.
The cause of the incident was not known. An investigation would begin as soon as it was safe to do so, the fire service said.
Five appliances and four specialist support vehicles were deployed by SFRS. Personnel from Grantown, Aviemore, Inverness, Kingussie and Nairn fire stations have been involved.
In a sign of the scale of the operation, SFRS said officers requested 20 replacement breathing apparatus cylinders to replenish those depleted since firefighters reached the scene.
Station manager Robbie MacDougall, the incident commander, said: "Our crews have completely surrounded the fire but the operation is likely to continue into this evening.
"Flames spread rapidly through the building and the fire was already very well developed when first responders arrived.
"Our teams have been working extremely hard to protect adjacent maintenance buildings from the intense flames and we will continue the firefighting operation until it's brought to a safe conclusion."


Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to create 55 new jobs at its newly-expanded penicillin-making plant in Irvine, North Ayrshire.

The facility produces Potassium Clavulanate which is used to treat conditions such as pneumonia, bronchitis and infections of the skin.
The expansion will help meet growing demand from developing countries.
GSK is receiving a Â£1.5m Scottish Enterprise Regional Selective Assistance grant towards the cost.
The grant was announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the official opening ceremony.
She said: "GSK is a global leader in the development of medicines and a great example of a highly-innovative company that is benefiting from what Scotland has to offer as an attractive location of choice for global life sciences companies.
"Their further investment in Scotland is testament to our thriving life sciences industry and its position as a key growth sector for the Scottish economy."
GSK also operates a plant in Montrose, Angus, which produces ingredients for medicines used to treat respiratory diseases and HIV/AIDS.
The company's chief executive, Sir Andrew Witty, said: "We're delighted to be opening a new facility in Scotland, where we have a long-standing commitment to manufacturing, which will continue in the near and distant future.
"The impact of this new facility will be felt here and abroad, with more antibiotics produced for people in countries where this sort of medicine is desperately needed."


Two bodies have been found at a property in Powys.

Dyfed-Powys Police were called to an isolated property near Machynlleth following reports of the sudden death of a 51-year-old woman.
During a search of the grounds, officers also found the body of a man.
Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding both deaths. The coroner has been informed.


Lewis Hamilton called title rival Sebastian Vettel "a disgrace" after the Ferrari driver drove into his car in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku.

The two clashed before one of three restarts in a chaotic race, Vettel hitting the back of Hamilton's Mercedes and then swerving sideways into him.
Vettel said Hamilton had deliberately slowed - or "brake-tested" - him.
Hamilton denied that and added that it was "disgusting driving" and "not sportsman's conduct".
Vettel was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty in the race - won by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo - after being adjudged guilty of dangerous driving but still finished a place ahead of Hamilton in fourth, extending his championship lead to 14 points.
The 29-year-old was also given three penalty points on his licence, taking him up to nine. If a driver receives 12 in a 12-month period, it triggers an automatic race ban.
If he wants to prove he's a man, we should do it out of the car face-to-face.
If Vettel receives three penalty points at the next race in Austria on 9 July, he would face a race ban. However, two points will drop off after the British Grand Prix on 16 July as he was punished for forcing Felipe Massa off the track at Silverstone last year.
Hamilton was not penalised. The stewards examined data from his car and found that he had maintained a more or less constant speed, had not lifted off the throttle or braked, and had behaved no differently at that restart at that point on the track than at the other two restarts.
Hamilton appeared not to accelerate out of Turn 15, the penultimate corner, and Vettel hit him up the back, damaging the Ferrari's front wing and part of the Mercedes' floor.
Vettel then pulled alongside Hamilton and swerved into him, banging wheels.
Asked if he drove into Hamilton deliberately, Vettel said: "It was very clear. We are racing with men. I don't have a radio to him. If we get a penalty, we should both get a penalty."
He added: "I wasn't happy with the brake-testing. I drove alongside him and raised my hand to say that is not the way to do it and we had a little contact."
Vettel added that it was "quite obvious" Hamilton had brake-tested him.
"I don't run into the back of him on purpose," he said. "I damaged my wing; he had a little damage as well.
"His restart was really good; I didn't think it was necessary. The problem is me right behind getting ready and all the other cars.
"He did something similar a couple of years ago in China at the restart. It is not the way to do it.
"The leader dictates the pace, but we were exiting the corner, he was accelerating and then he braked so much that I was braking as soon as I saw and I could not stop in time and ran into the back of him. That was just not necessary."
Vettel was unaware immediately after the race that his penalty was for swerving into Hamilton. He said that he thought the penalty must have been for hitting Hamilton from behind.
Hamilton, who lost victory in the race because he had to pit to have a loose head restraint fixed, responded: "I didn't (brake-test him). I controlled the pace. All the restarts I slowed down in the same spot.
"He was obviously sleeping and driving alongside and deliberately driving into a driver and coming away scot-free is is a disgrace. He disgraced himself.
"If he wants to prove he's a man, we should do it out of the car face-to-face. Driving dangerously in any way can put another driver at risk.
"Luckily we were going slow. If we were going fast it could have been a lot worse. Imagine all the kids watching Formula 1 today and see that kind of behaviour from a four-time world champion. It says it all."
Asked if things had got dirty in the title fight, Hamilton said: "Not for me. I am going keep to going.
"We had the upper hand this weekend. We can continue to move forwards in the future. Through difficult times true colours show, so it is a good day for me."
Vettel said the fight was "still respectful", adding: "I don't have a problem with him. It is just one action today that was wrong.
"I am willing to sort it out with him. I don't think there is much to sort out. I will talk to him when you (the media) are not there and then we move on."
Asked if he expected Vettel to apologise, Hamilton said: "I don't fancy seeing him. It might turn into something else."
Frazer Shaw: Whether Hamilton brake-checked Vettel or not does not excuse using your vehicle as a weapon for the second hit. Outrageous behaviour.
Alex Rose: So Vettel drives into Hamilton, gets a penalty and still manages to finish in front. That's not right.
Alex Withington: The repercussions will go on for a while after this one. Both Vettel and Hamilton will feel they were wronged. F1 2017 looking tasty
Steven Coy: The Vettel/Hamilton doesn't need penalties, the fierce competitiveness between these two is what this sport needs!
Andrew Ogley: Well, frankly that was all a bit bonkers today.


London Mayor Boris Johnson has been branded a hypocrite for offering three months of unpaid work at City Hall.

Labour launched the attack as the mayor previously said all of the Greater London Authority's (GLA) work experience posts should be paid.
Labour said Mr Johnson's failure to even pay some of his own staff showed his support for the low paid was just "empty rhetoric".
City Hall said the post was a "traineeship", not an "apprenticeship".
Mr Johnson told London Assembly Labour member Fiona Twycross in June last year "all formal GLA work experience" should pay the London living wage, currently at Â£9.15 an hour.
But the following September, in a letter to Ms Twycross, he said because trainees carried out basic work such as admin, it would "not be appropriate" for them to be paid like apprentices.
City Hall's placement offers two weeks' "employability and work readiness training" and 10 weeks' work experience.
It is an administration role including photocopying, filing, maintaining electronic files, updating databases, diary management and event support.
The GLA said it would pay travel expenses and for lunch.
Ms Twycross said: "There are no two ways about it; if you're in work you should be being paid. It's really that simple.
"It is shameless hypocrisy on the mayor's part to publically support the living wage whilst forcing young people to work unpaid for three months at City Hall."
A spokesperson for the mayor said: "Traineeships are a government programme for people who need work experience and are not yet ready to secure apprenticeships or paid work."
They said City Hall's traineeship offered up to two days of training per week plus work experience.
Trainees could then apply for an internship or a paid job, they added.
But City Hall has previously said that last year none of its trainees got an apprenticeship at the end of their work.


Nasa has used its high-resolution imaging satellite at the Red Planet to look down on the Curiosity rover and acquire a new picture of the recently landed six-wheeled robot.

The vehicle appears as a double dot.
The view from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been colour enhanced to emphasise certain ground features.
These include the disturbance in the soil made either side of the vehicle by the rocket powered crane that lowered Curiosity into Gale Crater a week ago.
"We can clearly see Curiosity - it's like two bright spots that we see, and their shadows.  And then it's surrounded by the blast pattern from the descent stage - those little blue fans right next to it (false colour blue)," explained Alfred McEwen, the principal investigator on MRO's High Resolution Image Science Experiment (HiRise) camera.
Since its 6 August (GMT) touchdown, engineers have been checking out the rover's systems and instruments.
And the past four days have been spent upgrading the vehicle's onboard software.
Curiosity runs two computers - a main unit and a back-up. Both have been updated to what programmers call the R10 configuration.
This software is optimised for surface operations, enabling the rover to drive, drill into rocks and take samples into the laboratories inside its body.
The update also removed all the code used by Curiosity during the complex manoeuvres required to land in Gale Crater, a deep depression on Mars' equator.
The mission team will continue to shake down the vehicle and its instruments in the coming days. A first drive is expected next week.
"We will drive just a little bit forward and then turn and back up. That'sâ€¦ in five or six days, assuming all goes well between now and then," said mission manager Michael Watkins.
Curiosity's ultimate goal is to go to the base of the big mountain in the centre of Gale known as Mount Sharp.
There, it is expected to find rocks that were laid down billions of years ago in the presence of liquid water.
Curiosity - also  called the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) - will probe these sediments for evidence that past environments on Mars could once have favoured microbial life.
The key science targets are about 8km away, but it will take several more km to find a drivable route across the rugged terrain.
Researchers hope to have the rover at the base of Mount Sharp in a year's time.
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The Scottish wildcat is on the brink of extinction, say conservationists.

The Scottish Wildcat Association (SWA) has warned that numbers of pure-bred cats have fallen to as low as 35 individuals.
Scottish Natural Heritage has estimated that there could be 150 breeding pairs left.
In an effort to better conserve the species, the SWA, scientist Dr Paul O'Donoghue and Kent-based charity the Aspinall Foundation say they have created a haven.
They say the following attributes and actions can better protect the animals.
The project involves about 300 sq miles of land on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in the north west Highlands.
Ardnamurchan includes some of Scotland's wildest landscapes and few human residents.
The main communities of Acharacle and Strontian have low populations of about 560 and 350.
Domestic cats pose some of the greatest risks to the future of wildcats.
The pets and feral cats breed with wildcats, reducing the pool of pure wildcats, and also pass on life-threatening diseases.
The haven project involves trapping feral cats and hybrid wildcats and then having them neutered. Pets are also being neutered and inoculated.
Those behind the project say a key feature of the haven is a feral cat buffer zone, or border control area.
The narrow "neck" of the peninsula provides a place where the team can monitor the movement of feral cats on to the peninsula from neighbouring areas.
Live traps and also camera traps are being set up to catch and observe the feral cats.
The project is working with landowners in an effort to provide more habitat favoured by the rare cats, such as woodland planted with native trees.
Neighbouring Sunart and Morven are seen as offering potential habitat for wildcats.


Gloucestershire have signed Durham wicketkeeper-batsman Phil Mustard on a two-year deal following a loan spell.

The 33-year-old, who played 12 limited-overs games for England in 2007-08, joined Gloucestershire on loan in July.
Mustard holds the Durham record for appearances in first-class and T20 cricket, helping them win five trophies during his time at the Riverside.
"What I saw in the team during the five weeks on loan was very pleasing," he told Gloucestershire's website.
"Gloucestershire gave me the opportunity to play red ball cricket this summer and it was fair to give them the first shot at putting a contract on the table."
Mustard spent 16 years at Durham - who were relegated to Division Two over financial issues on Monday - and has scored 8,098 first-class runs so far in his career.
He also had a loan spell with Lancashire during the 2015 season.
Meanwhile, Gloucestershire seamer Tom Hampton - who has played four first-class matches so far in his career - has left the club after his contract expired.


Downing Street has insisted that David Cameron will continue with demands for a curb on in-work benefits for EU migrants in the UK.

Several newspapers suggested the prime minister was to back down on the demand for a four-year wait for such benefits.
They cite government sources suggesting he may be flexible on the issue when he goes to Brussels on Thursday.
The proposal for a four-year wait will be tabled this week, a Downing Street spokesman said.
Mr Cameron is pushing for EU reforms ahead of the UK's in-out referendum, which he has promised will take place before the end of 2017.
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said: "David Cameron has faced resistance from other EU leaders over his proposal to make migrants wait for four years before being eligible for in-work benefits such as tax credits.
"So government officials, over this weekend, briefed several newspapers that the prime minister would signal his willingness at this week's EU summit to accept alternative proposals to tackle public concerns over immigration.
"But the prime minister has been under pressure from his work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, to agree benefit restrictions."
Newspapers including the Independent on Sunday, Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times reported the claim that Mr Cameron was set to "abandon" the demand.
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A government source quoted by the Press Association said: "The prime minister is set to reiterate the point he made in his letter and speech last month - that what matters most is to fix the problems not the precise form of the arrangements.
"On welfare, he will aim to unlock the political will necessary to find a solution, effectively giving the green light to officials to work up a solution that would both deliver on the prime minister's objective of better controlling migration from the EU while also being acceptable to all."
Mr Cameron is expected to emphasise that "levels of migration from the EU to the UK are a major concern for the British people" when he speaks at the European Council summit this week.
He has previously conceded that no deal will be reached at the summit, with the intention to reach agreement over a package of reforms in February.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "A number of Sunday papers have claimed the prime minister is backing away from the four-year migrant benefit proposal.
"One even goes as far as to claim he will be using this week's European Council to drop it - this is simply not true.
"As the PM said in his Chatham House speech several weeks ago: 'I am open to different ways of dealing with this issue. But we do need to secure arrangements that deliver on the objective set out in the Conservative Party manifesto to control migration from the European Union'."


Scottish universities have slipped down an annual list of the world's top 200 institutions.

Edinburgh was the only Scottish institution to improve its standing in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
But Glasgow, Aberdeen, St Andrews and Dundee all saw their ratings drop dramatically.
The editor of the ratings warned UK universities were in danger of falling behind Asian rivals.
The California Institute of Technology retained the top spot in the survey - with Oxford University coming in second.
The UK was the second best represented country overall in the rankings, and three English universities were in the top ten.
But while the University of Edinburgh climbed from 36th to 32nd, Glasgow University fell 37 places to 139th, while Aberdeen dropped 25 places to joint 176th.
St Andrews went from 85th to 108th, and Dundee fell out of the top 200 altogether.
A spokesman for the University of Dundee said: "While we are disappointed with the drop in our overall position in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is important to look at the context.
"Dundee actually recorded a slightly higher overall score than last year, according to the metrics used in the table. This includes higher scores for teaching, international outlook, and research."
Education Secretary Mike Russell said: "Scottish universities are well known around the world for the quality of education they offer.
"We have invested significant funding in our universities to ensure they can continue to offer a world-class degree and compete internationally.
"We will continue to deliver access to university based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay, and this year more students will be studying at our world-class universities - unlike universities in England where, overall, the number of acceptances has fallen."
However, Scottish Labour MSP Hugh Henry said: "Despite generous settlements for universities paid for with money from Scotland's hard-pressed colleges, this clearly shows that Scottish universities are facing major challenges both within the UK and internationally.
"Many universities are privately concerned about how their funding will be sustained in the future.
"We need an open and honest debate about how Scotland's universities can compete internationally whilst properly funding Scotland's colleges."
While the US and the UK still dominated the ratings, significant gains were made by their top Asian competitors.
The editor of the survey, Phil Baty, said uncertainty in education in England could see world-class universities collapse into global mediocrity.
He added that while Scotland was better protected by current policies, those were unlikely to be enough to meet the challenge posed by massive spending in Asia.
Mr Baty told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We have to look at ways to ensure that in times of austerity we're getting money into our universities.
"I actually think the tuition fees that have been tripled in England aren't enough to cover the gaps in funding in other areas like research. Scotland's done well to protect higher education funding but it's not really enough."
Alastair Sim, director at Universities Scotland, said having four Scottish universities in the world's top 200 was a "recognition of the strength of Scotland's higher education sector".
He said: "It is clear that the value of a Scottish higher education stands up to international comparison.
"However, Scotland's universities are competing in a brutally competitive global marketplace. It will take the continued commitment of energy, initiative and investment if we want to compete with the increasingly powerful top Asia-Pacific universities and the best of Europe and America.
"We are ambitious for a Scottish higher education sector truly excellent in world terms, not just truly excellent when compared to the rest of the UK."
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators, which it says makes it the only world rankings to examine all the core missions of the modern global university - research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity.


A search for the bones of King Henry I is being planned in Reading.

The project is backed by Philippa Langley, who helped find the remains of Richard III in Leicester.
She believes Henry I's bones are buried near the ruins of Reading Abbey and is interested in the search "because he is our forgotten king".
English Heritage has pledged its support to carry out ground penetrating radar (GPR) research of the abbey area, which aims to be carried out this year.
The plans are part of a wider project called Hidden Abbey to uncover the remains of Reading Abbey, which was founded by Henry I in 1121 and where he was buried.
He was the son of William the Conqueror, which has led to Henry I's reputation as a forgotten king overshadowed by his father's glory.
There is speculation about where his remains ended up after grave robbers raided the area for the silver coffin the king had reportedly been buried in.
But project co-founder and historian John Mullaney said: "We know he's there in some form or another because if people did discover these bones... they would have been left there."
The abbey was largely destroyed in 1538 during the dissolution of the monasteries, but many of the walls of the abbey still stand.
Dr Andrew Brown from English Heritage said the abbey ruins and its buried remains was considered "to be of national importance".
Ms Langley, who helped set up the Hidden Abbey Project, said: "There is the most incredible pristine abbey beneath the ground.
"What I want to do is bring history alive in Reading."
She added a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey would be carried out first to map the area, with the possibility of trial trenching also taking place.


The Scottish Women's Premier League's top two will meet in the Scottish Cup final after Glasgow City and Hibernian Ladies won their semi-finals.

League Cup holders Hibs won 5-0 against city rivals Hearts. Rachel McLauchlan and Sarah Ewens scored either side of a Lizzie Arnot hat-trick.
City, who lead Hibs by five points in the league, won 9-0 over Glasgow Girls.
Sarah Crilly netted four, Clare Shine got a hat-trick and Carla Boyce scored twice for the Scottish Cup holders.
Glasgow and Hibs have contested three of the last five finals in the competition with City winning each time, including last season's 3-0 triumph.
However, Hibs beat City 2-1 in this season's SWPL Cup final.


George Groves beat Martin Murray by unanimous decision in a must-win super-middleweight contest in London.

The pair have had seven unsuccessful world title challenges between them and a tight contest was predicted.
But Groves landed more the regular and telling blows and was awarded the verdict 118-110 by all three judges.
Chris Eubank Jr successfully defended his British middleweight title for the first time with a fourth-round stoppage of the previously unbeaten Tom Doran.
Groves, 28, was knocked out twice by Carl Froch in 2013 and 2014 and outpointed by WBC super-middleweight champion Badou Jack last year.
"I think I performed great, but I got caught with punches," Groves told Sky Sports. "Martin Murray is a class act and should be a world champion.
"It was make or break, but I had him out on his feet. That was my first step up since losing to Badou Jack. I did well but hats off to Murray. What a performer."
Murray, 33, has come up short in three middleweight world title fights and was also outpointed by Germany's WBA super-middleweight champion Arthur Abraham in his most recent fight.
Groves, defending his lightly-regarded WBA 'international' belt, looked the sharper in the first three rounds but Murray got a foot-hold in the fourth, pinning his opponent in the corner and unleashing a barrage of blows.
The Londoner's seasoning at the higher weight became evident in the middle rounds and he wobbled Murray with a right uppercut at the end of the seventh.
Murray appeared to be fully recovered by the ninth but he was stiffened by a left-right combination at the end of the round and staggered to his corner.
But just when the St Helens fighter looked like he might be spent, he landed with a couple of monstrous right hands in the 10th, which Groves did well to absorb.
Murray continued to search for a knockout blow over Groves' low left hand in the last two rounds but it was Groves who landed with the more telling shots.
And when the final bell sounded, Murray was almost out on his feet.
Following his defeat, Murray said he would not be quitting boxing.
"I got beaten by a better man. He was good and he hurt me a couple times," he told Sky Sports.
"I'm gutted. I'm sorry I didn't do enough today and I got beat clearly. But I'm not ready to retire.
"People say George Groves is finished but he proved he's not and I definitely have so much more to give."
Eubank Jr, 26, was fighting for the first time since winning the British middleweight belt from Nick Blackwell, who was put into an induced coma after the contest having suffered bleeding on the skull.
Blackwell woke from his coma a week later without requiring an operation, although he has been forced to retire.
Eubank's father, Chris Eubank Sr, admitted he lost his ruthless instinct after his 1991 rematch with Michael Watson, which left the latter with life-threatening injuries.
But Eubank Jr was as effective as ever against Doran, dropping the Welshman three times before the referee called a halt to proceedings.
Eubank is targeting a match with WBA and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, who is undefeated and has 32 knockouts from 35 fights.
But, having taken some solid shots from the unheralded but game Doran, challenging the Kazakh knockout artist is likely be a step up too soon.
"It's all about making statements," Eubank Jr told Sky Sports. "I feel I'm at world level now and can be challenging for world titles.
"Gennady Golovkin - everybody's scared of you but I'm coming for you and I'm coming for your belts."
Dillian Whyte returned to action following his defeat by Anthony Joshua last December with a sixth-round knockout of the Czech Republic's Ivica Bacurin.
Birmingham super-flyweight Kal Yafai continued his serene progress in the pro ranks with a first-round stoppage of Hungary's Jozsef Ajtai. Yafai, 27, is unbeaten in 19 paid fights.
Former Olympic bronze medallist Anthony Ogogo got his stop-start career back on track with a first-round victory over Croatia's Frane Radnic.
Ogogo, 27, forced his opponent to retire in his corner to improve his pro record to 10 wins in as many fights, with six of those by knockout.
Conor Benn, son of former two-weight world champion Nigel, made it three wins out of three with a savage knockout of the Czech Republic's Lukas Radic.
But former Commonwealth light-welterweight champion John Wayne Hibbert was stopped on a bad cut in the sixth round by Italy's Andrea Scarpa. The Essex boxer, 31, hoped a victory would lead to a world title shot.


A 12-year-old boy died after falling from height on a River Dee rope swing near Llangollen, an inquest has heard.

Ethan Brady-Rainey from Llangollen was killed in the incident near the Pontcysyllte aqueduct last Wednesday.
At the opening of an inquest on Monday, the coroner was told that the Denbighshire schoolboy had hit his head on a rock after falling.
The hearing heard that the boy's friends did not witness the accident. The inquest was adjourned until 2016.
Police have already said that the death of the Ysgol Dinas Bran pupil is not being treated as suspicious.
Staff at his school paid tribute to the student last week, describing the Year 8 pupil from Trevor as "very happy, bubbly and kind".
"He was a keen sportsman who represented the school at football and attended conscientiously. He will be sadly missed by all at the school," they said.
A full inquest hearing is expected to be held in February.


Prince Harry has said he no longer struggles with his royal role and wants to "make something" of his life.

Speaking in an ITV documentary about his charity work in Lesotho, the prince said losing his mother at a young age made him question his position.
He said he used to "bury his head in the sand" but now views life "very, very differently".
Harry co-founded the Sentebale charity with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to help young people affected by HIV/Aids.
The 32-year-old prince told the programme: "I always feel like I need to make something of my life.
"I was fighting the system, going 'I don't want to be this person; my mother died when I was very, very young and I don't want to be in this position'.
"But now I'm just so fired up and energised to be lucky enough to be in a position to make a difference."
Sentebale has delivered adolescent HIV testing and counselling services to more than 21,000 people since it was founded in 2006, and plans to expand into several sub-Saharan African countries by 2020.
Harry was interviewed by broadcaster Tom Bradby, who shadowed the prince when he first visited Lesotho 12 years ago.
The prince said it was "fun to be good and boring to be bad".
"If you're me, if you're your Average Joe, whoever you are, if you can't affect politics and change the big things in the world then just do whatever you can do.
"Whether it's in your local community, your village, your local church, walking down the street, opening a door for an old lady, helping them cross the road.
"Whatever if it is, just do good. Why wouldn't you?"
The programme, due to be broadcast on Monday 19 December, also features contributions from musicians Sir Elton John, Joss Stone and Chris Martin of Coldplay.
Harry is reunited with a teenager he met on his first visit and is seen dancing with local children.


Australia shocked Brazil at the Women's World Cup to reach the quarter-finals of the tournament in Canada.

Samantha Kerr came closest to scoring for Australia in the first half, hitting a volley into the side netting.
Formiga almost gave Brazil the lead in the second half, heading onto the post, before substitute Kyah Simon grabbed the winner from close range after goalkeeper Luciana spilled the ball.
Australia face the winners of Tuesday's game between Japan and Netherlands.
Brazil topped their group after winning all three games, but came undone in Moncton after conceding their only goal of the tournament.
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Earlier in the tournament, striker Marta, 29, became the World Cup's leading scorer with 15 goals, but she was unable to inspire her team to a positive result.
"We controlled the game, the statistics show that, the chances showed that but we lost the game and we are out," said Brazil coach Vadao.
"Australia were very efficient and clinical when it counted with the goal, congratulations to them."


A police officer who "groomed" a 15-year-old girl has been jailed.

Daniel Cookson, 30, who served with the South Yorkshire force, was arrested in November 2013 after the teenager's parents found "inappropriate text messages" on her phone.
Officers found he had contacted her between March and November, the force said.
He denied inciting the girl to engage in sexual activity but was found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court.
Cookson, from Worksop, was handed an 18-month jail term and put on the sex offenders register for 10 years. He was also banned from working with children.
He was also subjected to a sexual harm prevention order, police said.
The PC, who was based in Rotherham, was suspended after he was arrested and charged in August last year.
South Yorkshire Police said a "misconduct investigation will be considered by the force's Professional Standards Department".


A man who stabbed his father more than 20 times in the head, neck and body has been jailed for life for his murder.

Peter McDermott, 42, killed 65-year-old Bernard McDermott in a drunken attack at his father's home in Greenock, Inverclyde, on 23 April last year.
He claimed to have been unaware what he was doing but a jury rejected this and convicted him of murder.
At the High Court in Stirling, a judge told McDermott to serve a minimum of 20 years before he can apply for parole.
Lord Uist told father-of-two McDermott: "When you were extremely drunk you argued with your father and went to the kitchen and obtained a knife, despite the attempt by a friend to stop you, and then proceeded to stab your father 26 times as he sat in his chair.
"This was indeed a brutal and callous murder."
The court heard that McDermott had drunk a bottle of fortified wine before going to his father's flat where he consumed vodka.
As a friend looked on, then unsuccessfully tried to disarm him, he collected a nine-inch steak knife from his father's kitchen and began striking him with it.
The friend ran from the flat and rang 999, while McDermott, staggered from the scene of the crime.
While an ambulance crew tried to save his father's life, McDermott walked about Greenock, hid the knife in a nearby park and went to two local pubs.
He was later arrested as he was about to wash the blood from his hands in a public toilet.
The court heard that he asked the arresting officer: "Is he dead yet? He had it coming. He deserved it."
During the eight-day trial, McDermott admitted delivering the fatal blows, but his defence claimed he was suffering from a "dissociative episode", while re-living childhood trauma, and did not realise what he was doing.
McDermott claimed his father was abusive and had beaten and threatened his late mother.
He claimed that on the morning of the incident, his father had chanted the words "Burn, Baby Burn" - a song which evoked memories of his unhappy childhood.
He said he mentally "cut off" on hearing the song, and had no recollection of launching the frenzied attack.
McDermott wept repeatedly while giving and listening to the evidence, and claimed he was "shattered and heartbroken" to have killed a man he insisted he loved.
Jurors, however, did not believe his story and convicted him of murder.
Two women jurors wept when the court was told that McDermott had a lengthy criminal record dating back to 2006.
He had three convictions for possessing offensive weapons, two convictions for possession of a knife, and had been released early from a prison sentence, for possessing a knife, the day before he killed his father.


Theresa May and Donald Trump have agreed there is a "window of opportunity" to persuade Russia to abandon its support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

The two leaders spoke about the crisis by telephone, days after a US air strike against a Syrian airbase.
It comes after Boris Johnson told G7 leaders in Italy that further sanctions would be considered against Russia.
Foreign leaders there are trying to agree a co-ordinated response to Syria.
The meeting has been taking place ahead of a visit to Moscow by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Mr Trump ordered a series of missile strikes against a Syrian airbase on Friday in response to the deaths of more than 80 people, including children, during a chemical attack in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April.
Mrs May said she agreed during a phone call that it was no longer in Russia's strategic interest to support President Assad.
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Trump thanked Mrs May, who is on a short walking holiday in Wales, for her support in the wake of the US air strike.
He added: "They agreed that US Secretary of State (Rex) Tillerson's visit to Moscow this week provides an opportunity to make progress towards a solution which will deliver a lasting political settlement.
"They also discussed the broader Middle East, including the threat posed by Iran throughout the region.
"The prime minister and president also stressed the importance of the international community, including China, putting pressure on North Korea to constrain the threat it poses."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also agreed during a call with Mr Trump that President Assad should be held accountable, the White House said.
US officials say the airbase it targeted was used to launch a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians.
But Syria has denied using any chemical agents and Russia says the US has failed to provide evidence Syria has chemical weapons.
The US president's spokesman Sean Spicer said on Monday that further action would be considered in certain circumstances.
But Russia and Iran - Assad's two principal international backers - have warned that they would respond "with force" to any fresh attack on their ally.
Earlier, Mr Johnson said senior Russian military officers involved in co-ordinating Syrian military efforts could face international sanctions.
At a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Lucca, Italy, Mr Johnson issued a fresh appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to abandon his backing for his Syrian ally.
He said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "toxifying the reputation of Russia by his continual association with a guy who has flagrantly poisoned his own people".
Mr Johnson also defended his decision to pull out of talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, saying it was important that Mr Tillerson had the "clearest possible mandate" when he went to Moscow to deliver the response of the G7.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump's son, Eric, said the US would not be "pushed around" by Mr Putin, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The president is not intimidated by Moscow's talk of war, his son said.
He insisted there was "no one harder" than his father if Russia chose to "cross us".