Icelanders are voting in a referendum on the latest plan to repay the UK and Netherlands for costs incurred when its banking system collapsed.

The country overwhelmingly rejected a previous repayment plan, which was put to a referendum last March.

The new deal offers less onerous repayment terms, but opinion polls suggest it will again be rejected.

Iceland's Landsbanki bank collapsed in 2008, and British and Dutch investors lost some 4bn euros (£3.5bn; $5.8bn).

The bank had offered savings accounts in the UK and Netherlands under the name Icesave.

The British and Dutch governments had to reimburse 400,000 citizens who lost savings - and Iceland must now decide how to repay that money.
Under the terms of the latest deal, Iceland would pay the money back with 3.3% interest between 2016 and 2046.

Under the previous proposals, the money was to be paid back with 5.5% interest between 2016 and 2024.

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