Personal details of people under social care and drug rehabilitation services have been released online in an apparent data breach.

Up to 200 surnames were published on Portsmouth City Council's website.
The council said an error meant information was presented in a "different format" but claimed it was not possible to "identify individuals".
The Information Commissioner has been informed of the breach by the council.
Once a month the council must list all its spending over Â£500 and the latest report included care and drug rehabilitation payments made to individuals, along with their surname, care home and clinic.
The breach was spotted on Friday and the details were removed "as soon as possible", the council said.
Michael Lawther, Portsmouth City Council's senior information risk officer, said: "We are confident only a very small number of people accessed the file before it was removed and will be contacting them to ensure the information is destroyed.
"We treat data protection with the utmost seriousness and as a precaution have informed the Information Commissioner's Office of what has happened."
A spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said: "We're aware of an incident at Portsmouth City Council and are considering our next steps."


Syrian refugees are expected to have been housed in all council areas across Wales by the end of 2016.

The Welsh Local Government Association said more than 300 refugees will then have been resettled in Wales in the first year of the Syrian resettlement programme.
Councils had previously been criticised for the speed they had been rehousing Syrian refugees.
But the WLGA said the criticism had been unfair.
The UK government has pledged to settle 20,000 Syrians in the UK by 2020 under the scheme.
But in August it was reported that only nine of Wales 22 councils had taken part up to the end of June.
The WLGA has now confirmed to the assembly's equality committee that all authorities will have received refugee families into their areas, with over 300 refugees resettled in Wales by the end of December.
In a written submission to the committee ahead of verbal evidence to AMs on Thursday, it said: "While there has been some criticism of local authorities for not responding quickly enough, for those authorities with limited experience, making sure appropriate plans were in place to ensure a well-managed resettlement process was key."
"As such, we believe the criticism levelled has been unfair and in the main, the smooth way in which the arrival of refugees has been undertaken has borne out the benefit of effective planning."
Oxfam Cymru had been previously critical of the speed that councils were taking refguees from Syria.
Kirsty Davies-Warner, head of the charity, said "We are encouraged by the clear change in pace of the resettlement of Syrian refugees to Wales.
"It's terrific to see that every local authority within Wales will welcome refugee families from Syria - showing that Wales is providing a truly national response."
The Welsh Government does not deal with immigration and asylum policy, which is instead handled by the Home Office, but it is responsible for many of the services that support refugees and asylum seekers.
It has a delivery plan which lists a series of actions in areas including mental health and housing that it wants to see implemented.
But the WLGA said while those who work on relevant issues may be aware of the plan's existence, "there are no established mechanisms through which Welsh Government raises awareness of the delivery plan with authorities or specific departments".
As a result, it said some organisations may not made be aware of the actions required of them, but it said many of the issues included in the plan were being addressed.
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said its refugee and asylum seeker delivery plan published in March 2016 had already led to positive changes but it would update it with information on new schemes as they developed.


A new swimming pool could be built in Shrewsbury under proposals being considered by councillors.

The existing centre next to the Quarry park dates from 1864 and was last refurbished in 1994.
Shropshire Council is considering replacing it with a new 25m, eight lane pool, which could cost up to £8m.
Another option is to refurbish the existing facilities. Director of Commissioning George Candler said no final decision had been made.
He said the age of the current centre made it more expensive to run than new pools.
"We can't really stay with the status quo. Clearly we need to look at new facilities," he said.
"We believe a new pool would cost £5-6m, but we would want some additional facilities built on to that, so we estimate at this stage anything between £7-8m."
Another option is to build a new pool elsewhere in the town, with some people suggesting the Sports Village in Sundorne and a site adjoining the Battlefield incinerator as possible locations.
Mr Candler said council staff would now put together business cases for various sites, as well as other options.
A final decision in likely to be made in early 2015.


Paris St-Germain kept alive their hopes of a third successive domestic treble as victory over a weakened Monaco took them through to the French cup final.

After Monaco keeper Morgan de Sanctis spilled an easy save, Julian Draxler tapped the opener into an empty net.
Edinson Cavani added a second with a backheeled finish from Angel Di Maria's cross, before Blaise Matuidi added to an own goal by Monaco's Safwan Mbae.
Marquinhos rounded off the scoring with a late rebound after a deflection.
Unai Emery's side will now go on to play Angers in the final at the Stade de France on 27 May.
Angers, 14th in Ligue 1, reached their first French cup final in 60 years with a 2-0 victory over Guingamp on Tuesday.
PSG trail Monaco on goal difference at the top of the French league, but Leonardo Jardim's side, who host Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday, have a game in hand.
Kylian Mbappe, Monaco's in-form 19-year-old striker, was not named in the squad against PSG, perhaps with that semi-final first leg in mind.
Colombia forward Radamel Falcao was also rested, while attacking midfielder Bernardo Silva was on the bench.
PSG, who won the domestic treble twice in a row under previous boss Laurent Blanc, beat Monaco to win the French League Cup final 4-1 earlier in April.


A fraudster has been sent to prison for trying to lie his way back into the NHS.

Conrad de Souza, 57, of Fulham, admitted he lied about his qualifications again.
He was sentenced to 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to six charges of fraud in December 2016.
De Souza, who never completed medical school, was previously jailed in 2011 for claiming he was a doctor to get clinical strategy roles.
He was caught for the second time following a special investigation by the fraud team at NHS Protect.
He admitted falsifying his employment history and qualifications in an attempt to secure senior health roles with a variety of public bodies between 2013 and 2014.
Arslan Khan, specialist prosecutor from the CPS Specialist Fraud Division, said: "The prosecution built a case which showed how Conrad de Souza lied time and again in order to attempt to secure a number of senior health roles.
"De Souza carried on telling these lies despite a previous conviction and prison sentence for similar fraudulent behaviour. Faced with the evidence against him, he pleaded guilty."
His previous conviction related to his employment with Lewisham Primary Care Trust between 2001 and 2010, during which he received more than Â£329,000 of NHS money in fraudulently obtained earnings.
He had enrolled at the University of London medical school in 1980 but never graduated.
De Souza was jailed for more than two-and-a-half years in 2011.


The Northern Ireland Housing Executive has confirmed that the cladding systems it has used are not the same as the one on the Grenfell Tower block.

A total of 79 people are either dead or missing presumed dead after a huge fire engulfed the west London tower block last week.
Following the tragedy, the NI Housing Executive carried out an inspection of its 32 tower blocks for fire safety.
Concerns have been raised about the cladding installed on Grenfell Tower.
The Housing Executive confirmed cladding was used during the refurbishment of Eithne House and Cuchulainn House in the New Lodge area of north Belfast.
Whincroft House and Carnet House in east Belfast are currently being clad.
Last week, Colm McQuillan of the Housing Executive said the type of cladding on Grenfell Tower had not been used on tower blocks in Northern Ireland as far as he was aware, but that this was being checked.
"We have rigorously tested the cladding that has gone onto our buildings to an extent that it fits and meets all fire safety regulations," he said.
The Executive has now said that the cladding used in Northern Ireland is of a different type.


Southport have signed Mansfield striker Craig Westcarr on loan until 30 April.

The 31-year-old has scored four goals in 27 appearances this season but has not featured for the Stags since the start of February.
Westcarr has played for nine different clubs during his career including Portsmouth, Walsall and Chesterfield.
"Craig wants to be playing regular football and has gone to get further game time under his belt." Stags boss Adam Murray told the club website.
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The divorce of film star Johnny Depp and actress Amber Heard has been finalised after months of wrangling over the final terms of the break up.

Depp, 53, has agreed to pay Heard $7m (£5.6m; €6.6m), which she says she will donate to two charities.
Heard, 30, will get to keep the couple's dogs, Pistol and Boo, who were at the centre of scandal when she took them to Australia illegally in 2015.
She had accused Depp of domestic abuse - a claim he denies.
According to court documents, she said Depp had been physically abusive to her, culminating in him throwing a mobile phone at her face during a fight in February last year.
Depp's lawyer denied the allegations, saying Heard was "attempting to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse". Police officers attending the scene said they had found no evidence of a crime.
The actress had filed for a restraining order, but this was dropped after the majority of the terms of the divorce were settled in August.
But the divorce was only finalised this week because lawyers could not agree over whether Depp should make the payments directly to the charities or not.
Heard said she would donate the money from the divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
Her lawyer, Pierce O'Donnell, said it was a "great day" for his client, adding:  "All Amber wanted was to be divorced and now she is."
Depp's lawyer, Laura Wasser, said they were "all pleased to put this unpleasant chapter in Mr Depp and his family's lives behind them".
The couple, who have no children together, were married for just under 18 months when they split in May 2016.
Depp has two children from a previous relationship with French singer and model Vanessa Paradis.
In a separate development on Friday, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor started legal proceedings to sue his former business managers for more than $25m.
He claimed The Management Group had failed to properly pay his taxes, made unauthorised loans and overpaid for security and other services, according to the Associated Press news agency.
A lawyer for the company, Michael J Kump, described the lawsuit as a "fabrication" and said it had done "everything possible to protect Depp from his irresponsible and profligate spending".


A convicted sex offender who fled the UK has been arrested in Cambodia.

Damien Midgley, formerly of Aberford, near Leeds, was tried for child sex offences in 2014, but did not attend the hearing.
He was convicted in his absence and sentenced to six years in jail, with a warrant for his arrest also issued.
North Yorkshire Police believe the 39-year-old visited Thailand before Cambodia. Arrangements are being made for him to be deported back to the UK.
Det Insp Jane Guymer said: "Midgley clearly thought that by fleeing the UK he would be somehow immune to the sentence that the courts handed him in his absence.
"However, this case proves that international barriers are no obstacle when it comes to ensuring vile and cowardly child sex offenders are held to account for their actions."


A campaign has raised £20,000 in two days for a gymnast who was left paralysed after falling 50ft from a hotel balcony in Spain.

Dina Amos-Larkin, 21, from Poole, Dorset was at a sports festival in Salou when she fell backwards over the railings, smashing her spine.
She said she was "overwhelmed" by the money raised after insurers refused to pay out.
The law student said the medical repatriation alone would cost £10,000.
Ms Amos-Larkin, who has represented Great Britain in trampolining, told the BBC: "It was the final night, I'd had a bit to drink and I was a bit upset because I had some differences with my friends throughout the whole week.
"I was on the phone to my mum later in the evening, I went outside, had a cigarette and leant backwards on the ledge of the balcony."
The Surrey University student then fell 50ft (15m) and landed on to the corrugated roof of a storage shed.
She said: "I broke my spine, I severed my spinal cord, I had two bleeds on my brain, I broke both my wrists.
"I'm paralysed from the chest down. The doctors told me that I very nearly didn't make it to hospital."
She added it was hard to cope with the suddenness of her injury: "I was on holiday, I was having a good time, I woke up two weeks later and was told I would never walk again."
Ms Amos-Larkin said the insurers have not paid out because of the amount of alcohol in her blood at the time she fell.
Her friend James Cochrane set up a fundraising campaign on 25 April to help pay for the flight home.
A spokeswoman for insurance company AXA said Ms Amos-Larkin's claim had been declined due to exclusions in the policy including "self-inflicted injury or illness, suicide or attempted suicide, sexually transmitted diseases, solvent abuse, alcohol abuse, the use of drugs, self-exposure to needless peril (except in an attempt to save human life)".
She added: "However, we have been assisting Dina's family throughout their ordeal and continue to provide assistance operationally and financially on an ex-gratia basis for her repatriation."


Now 246 African players have played in the Premier League since it began in 1992, scoring 1,776 goals in 14,210 appearances.
Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has scored the most goals (104), Kolo Toure has made the most appearances (349) while Nigeria (35) has contributed the most players.
As the Premier League live fan park comes to Cape Town this weekend learn all you need to know about African players in the English top flight.
Arsenal - 15 players, 1,034 appearances, 123 goals
Aston Villa - 12 players, 242 appearances, 17 goals
Barnsley - 1 player, 25 appearances, 2 goals
Birmingham - 8 players, 169 appearances, 0 goals
Blackburn - 9 players, 534 appearances, 87 goals
Blackpool: 1 player, 20 appearances, 0 goals
Bolton: 12 players, 476 appearances, 49 goals
Bournemouth: 2 players, 11 appearances, 1 goal
Burnley: 1 player, 28 appearances, 1 goal
Cardiff: 2 players, 18 appearances, 1 goal
Charlton: 9 players, 384 appearances, 35 goals
Chelsea: 13 players, 1,136 appearances, 191 goals
Coventry: 4 players, 287 appearances, 48 goals
Crystal Palace: 9 players, 245 appearances, 18 goals
Derby: 3 players, 34 appearances, 0 goals
Everton: 13 players, 806 appearances, 95 goals
Fulham: 17 players, 438 appearances, 26 goals
Hull: 14 players, 327 appearances, 28 goals
Ipswich: 2 players, 28 appearances, 6 goals
Leeds: 4 players, 287 appearances, 29 goals
Leicester: 5 players, 173 appearances, 34 goals
Liverpool: 11 players, 418 appearances, 16 goals
Man City: 14 players, 499 appearances, 102 goals
Man Utd: 4 players, 102 appearances, 6 goals
Middlesbrough: 5 players, 241 appearances, 54 goals
Newcastle: 20 players, 1,035 appearances, 146 goals
Norwich: 8 players, 205 appearances, 25 goals
Portsmouth: 24 players, 800 appearances, 117 goals
QPR: 7 players, 209 appearances, 9 goals
Reading: 6 players, 132 appearances, 10 goals
Sheffield United: 2 players, 6 appearances, 0 goals
Sheffield Weds: 1 player, 2 appearances
Southampton: 9 players, 354 appearances, 36 goals
Stoke: 11 players, 364 appearances, 41 goals
Sunderland: 16 players, 316 appearances, 34 goals
Swansea: 3 players, 111 appearances, 34 goals
Tottenham: 16 players, 663 appearances, 74 goals
Watford: 8 players, 151 appearances, 21 goals
West Brom: 12 players, 562 games, 76 goals
West Ham: 22 players, 678 appearances, 78 goals
Wigan: 10 players, 388 appearances, 58 goals
Wimbledon: 1 player, 123 appearances, 37 goals
Wolves: 8 players, 148 appearances, 11 goals
Who they were, and where they came from.
Portsmouth: 24 players. Hassan Yebda, Nadir Belhadj (both Algeria), Lauren, Rodolphe M'Bela Douala, Valery Mezague, Franck Songo'o (all Cameroon), Lomanu LuaLua (DR Congo), Kevin-Prince Boateng, Sulley Muntar, Quincy (all Ghana), Aruna Dindane (Ivory Coast), Djimi Traore (Mali), Kanu, John Utaka, Yakubu (all Nigeria), Amdy Faye, Aliou Cisse, Salif Diao, Papa Bouba Diop, Diomansy Kamara, Armand Traore (all Senegal), Aaron Mokoena (South Africa), Collins Mbesuema (Zambia), Benjani (Zimbabwe)
West Ham: 22 players. Marc Vivien Foe, Alex Song, Rigobert Song (all Cameroon), Herita Ilunga (DR Congo), Mido (Egypt), John Pantsil (Ghana), Titi Camara, Kaba Diawara (both Guinea), Guy Demel (Ivory Coast), Frederick Kanoute, Modibo Maiga (both Mali), Marouane Chamakh, Manuel de Costa (both Morocco), Emmanuel Emenike, Victor Moses, Victor Obinna (all Nigeria), Demba Ba, Henri Camara, Mo Diame, Cheikhou Kouyate, Diafra Sakho (all Senegal), Benni McCarthy (South Africa)
Newcastle: 20 players. Mehdi Abeid (Algeria), Gael Bigirimana (Burundi), Sebastien Bassong, Geremi (both Cameroon), Lomana LuaLua, Kazenga LuaLua, Chancel Mbemba (all DR Congo), Seydou Doumbia, Cheick Tiote (both Ivory Coast), Celestine Babayaro, Obafemi Martins, Shola Ameobi (all Nigeria), Amdy Faye, Demba Ba, Habib Beye, Papiss Cisse, Lamine Diatta, Abdoulaye Faye, Henri Saivet (all Senegal), Matty Pattison (South Africa)
Fulham: 17 players. Hameur Bouazza, Rafik Halliche (both Algeria), Eyong Enoh, Pierre Wome (both Cameroon), Malik Buari, Derek Boateng, Emmanuel Frimpong, Elvis Hammond, John Pantsil (all Ghana), (Guinea-Bissau), Mahamadou Diarra (Mali), Abdeslam Ouaddou, Adel Taarabt (both Morocco), Dickson Etuhu (Nigeria), Papa Bouba Diop, Diomansy Kamara (both Senegal), Kagisho Dikgacoi (South Africa)
Tottenham: 16 players. Nabi Bentaleb, Moussa Saib (both Algeria), Benoit Assou-Ekoto, Thimotee Atouba, Sebastien Bassong, Clinton N'Jie (all Cameroon), Hossam Ghaly, Mido (both Egypt), Kevin-Prince Boateng (Ghana), Didier Zokora (Ivory Coast), Freddie Kanoute (Mali), Nourredine Naybet, Adel Taarabt (both Morocco), Mbulelo Mabizela, Steven Pienaar (both South Africa), Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo)
Arsenal: 15 players. Lauren, Alex Song (both Cameroon), Mohamed Elneny (Egypt), Emmanuel Frimpong, Quincy (both Ghana), Kaba Diawara (Guinea), Emmanuel Eboue, Gervinho, Kolo Toure (all Ivory Coast), Christopher Wreh (Liberia), Marouane Chamakh (Morocco), Kanu, Alex Iwobi (both Nigeria), Armand Traore (Senegal), Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo)
Hull: 14 players. Kamel Ghilas (Algeria), Manucho (Angola), Ahmed Elmohamady, Gedo, Amr Zaki (all Egypt), Daniel Cousin (Gabon), Kamil Zayatte (Guinea), Yannick Sagbo (Ivory Coast), Sone Aluko, Seyi Olofinjana (both Nigeria), Mo Diame, Abdoulaye Faye, Dame N'Doye, Ibrahima Sonko (all Senegal)
Man City: 14 players. Djamel Belmadi, Ail Benarbia (both Algeria), Marc Vivien Foe, Lucien Mettomo (both Cameroon), Wilfried Bony, Abdul Razak, Yaya Toure, Kolo Toure (all Ivory Coast), George Weah (Liberia), Kelvin Etuhu, Kelechi Iheanacho (both Nigeria), Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo), Hatem Trabelsi (Tunisia), Benjani (Zimbabwe)
Chelsea; 13 players. Bertrand Traore (Burkina Faso), Samuel Eto'o, Geremi (both Cameroon), Mo Salah (Egypt), Baba Rahman, Michael Essien (both Ghana), Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou (both Ivory Coast), George Weah (Liberia), Celestine Babayaro, John Mikel Obi (both Nigeria), Demba Ba (Senegal)
Sunderland: 16 players. Stephane Sessegnon, (Benin), Patrick Mboma (Cameroon), Cabral (Cape Verde), Ahmed Elmohamady (Egypt), Asamoah Gyan, John Mensah, Sulley Muntari (all Ghana), Lamine Kone (Ivory Coast), Talal El Karkouri (Morocco), Dickson Etuhu (Nigeria), El Hadji Diouf, Kader Mangane, Alfred N'Diaye, Dame N'Doye (all Senegal), Wahbi Khazri (Tunisia), Benjani (Zimbabwe)
There have been 23,620 goals (excluding own goals) in the Premier League, 1,776 by African players.
21% of the total players who have played in the Premier League have been from Africa - they have scored 13% of the goals.


Everton manager Roberto Martinez says the club will turn down defender John Stones's transfer request.

The England international, 21, asked to leave on Tuesday after the Toffees refused offers of £20m, £26m and £30m from Premier League champions Chelsea.
However, the Blues will reportedly return with a £40m bid before the transfer window closes on Monday.
"Sometimes money can't buy everything and that is going to be a very strong statement at Everton," said Martinez.
"This is not a moment when we can use any money to get us stronger."
Stones played the full 120 minutes of Everton's 5-3 extra-time victory over Barnsley in the League Cup second round on Wednesday.
"John, for a young man under massive pressure, was terrific," added Martinez.
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The Spaniard has been angered by Chelsea counterpart Jose Mourinho's public pursuit of Stones and says he trusts Everton chairman Bill Kenwright to stand firm and retain the centre-back.
"We have a chairman who will do the right thing for the club and for the team and, as a true Evertonian, we are clear he will not be easily influenced in taking the money and accepting things which will clearly make our team weaker," he said.
"The situation with John is very clear. We care about him, we will protect him and make sure we give him everything we can to allow him to enjoy his football."
Stones, who arrived from Barnsley for £3m in February 2013, has four years left on his contract after signing an extension in August 2014.


A letter written by Admiral Lord Nelson has been sold at auction for £54,500.

The previously unpublished document was sold by Hansons Auctioneers in Derbyshire.
The letter, dating back to 1804, was written by Nelson using his left hand seven years after he lost his right arm in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Another letter dated 7 May 1793, which was written before his injury, was also sold for £11,000.
Source: BBC History
Nelson: The man behind the legend
The letters came to the auctioneers from a collector in the West Country who had owned them for 40 years.
Charles Hanson, manager of Hansons Auctioneers, said he had expected the items to go for about £10,000 each.
He said: "Lord Nelson was so pivotal in putting our country where we are today and we are absolutely delighted to handle such items that are so close to history and written by the great man himself."
The 1804 letter, written a year before Lord Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar, praises Major James Weir of the Royal Marines.
It reads: "You merit everything which a grateful country could bestow upon your services… I shall be soon in England and if my testimony of your services can be useful it shall be very much at your service."
The earlier letter, which coincides with Lord Nelson's rise to power, was written after he took command of HMS Agamemnon.
It details his thoughts on a shipmate attempting to leave his rank and reads: "He came on board the ship from the Sandwich by his own free will and consent therefore why he should now be so uncomfortable as he appears to be I cannot account."


A "mystery man" has thrown banknotes to members of the public in a Londonderry shopping centre, according to a police report.

The cash giveaway took place in Foyleside shopping centre on Tuesday.
The Derry Journal newspaper reported that he "threw a mixture of £10 and £20 notes from the first floor on to shoppers below".
A police spokeswoman said all the cash they examined was genuine.  She added that no crime had been committed.
The identity of the man and his motives remain unclear at this stage.
Foyleside Shopping Centre said it had no staff available for comment.


The Australian government has announced it will build a second international airport in Sydney.

The A$5bn (Â£2.9bn, $3.8bn) airport will be located at Badgerys Creek, 50km (31 miles) west of the city's centre.
PM Malcolm Turnbull said the government would take on the project after the operator of Sydney's existing airport turned it down, citing financial risks.
It comes more than 70 years after the idea was first conceived, and follows promises from successive governments.
The current Sydney Airport, 8km south of the city, has become increasingly stretched amid increased demand in recent years.
Mr Turnbull described the airport as a "vitally important project" for both Sydney and the nation.
"The airport will be a major catalyst for jobs and economic growth in western Sydney, injecting more than A$1.9bn into the economy during the construction phase alone," he said on Tuesday.
"It is expected to deliver 9,000 new jobs to western Sydney by the early 2030s, and 60,000 in the long-term."
The Sydney Airport Group declined its first option to build the airport, citing "risks" to investors including demand and growth potential and construction costs.
The debate on the need for a second airport in Australia's largest city dates back to 1946.
"I think the community wants to see the project come to life as opposed to necessarily worrying about who builds or who operates it," New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
Details of the plan will be announced next week when Mr Turnbull's government unveils its annual budget.


Women's Super League One champions Manchester City will start their Spring Series campaign at home to 2016 runners-up Chelsea on Sunday, 23 April.

Newly promoted Bristol City host Reading as they get the top-flight season under way on the previous day.
Teams will play each other just once in a one-off, transitional competition before the WSL's switch to a winter calendar for 2017-18.
For top-flight teams, the league runs over six weeks until Saturday, 3 June.
The WSL 2 Spring Series starts on 11 February with a game between London Bees and Brighton, who are making their debut after promotion, and concludes on Sunday, 21 May.
There will be no promotion or relegation at the end of the Spring Series, but trophies will be awarded to each division's winner.
"It's set to be an exciting few months for the domestic women's game with clubs competing for this one-off trophy and the Women's FA Cup final in May," said FA director of football participation and development Kelly Simmons.
"It's important that we keep building this momentum ahead of the Euros and for the return of the WSL in September."
WSL 1
Saturday, 22 April, 18:00 BST: Bristol City v Reading
Sunday, 23 April, 14:00 BST: Birmingham City v Sunderland, Manchester City v Chelsea, Yeovil Town v Liverpool
TBC (22 or 23 April depending on venue confirmation) - Arsenal v Notts County
WSL 2
Saturday, 11 February, 14:00 GMT: London Bees v Brighton & Hove Albion
Sunday, 12 February, 12:00 GMT: Durham v Millwall Lionesses
Sunday, 12 February, 14:00 GMT: Aston Villa v Watford, Oxford United v Everton, Sheffield FC v Doncaster Rovers Belles


Netherlands produced a sensational second-half performance to annihilate reigning champions Spain in a stunned Arena Fonte Nova.

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Story of the match:
Spain lived up to their favourites tag by opening the scoring through a Xabi Alonso penalty, but Robin van Persie equalised with an incredible diving header just before half-time and Arjen Robben put Netherlands in front with a cool finish.
Stefan de Vrij forced in a third from Wesley Sneijder's free-kick, Van Persie dispossessed goalkeeper Iker Casillas to make it four and Robben's brilliant solo effort sealed the win.
Spain, looking to win a fourth consecutive major international trophy, were humbled and humiliated in the repeat of the 2010 World Cup final. The last time they conceded five goals in an international match was in 1963.
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Three-time runners-up Netherlands will suddenly find themselves talked about among the leading contenders to lift the title and it is not unrealistic if they maintain this level of display.
It was their first meeting with Spain since the showpiece four years ago in South Africa and the first time the previous finalists had met in the opening round of matches at the next World Cup.
Ear-splitting noise reverberated around one of Brazil's most impressive stadiums as the teams emerged before kick-off.
The Dutch fans have travelled in far smaller numbers than usual - a reflection of their pre-competition hopes - but there were still pockets of orange mixed in with the red of Spain, yellow of Brazil and the colours of various other teams, fitting in this melting pot of a city.
It made for a mighty atmosphere, including boos for pantomime villain Diego Costa - the striker born in Brazil and capped by them before switching allegiances to Spain.
Costa was clattered early on by Ron Vlaar, and there were more heavy challenges as the first half progressed, but any idea that the Netherlands would turn this into an encounter as brutal as their defeat in Johannesburg four year's ago were soon dismissed.
Indeed, it was Louis van Gaal's Dutch side who created the first clear chance when Robben slipped Wesley Sneijder clean through but captain Casillas's one-handed save kept the ball out.
That miss appeared costly when Xavi released Costa into the penalty area and he fell under the challenge of De Vrij. Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli pointed to the spot, although replays showed Costa had stood on the Feyenoord defender's leg.
Alonso slotted the resulting penalty past Dutch keeper Jasper Cillessen but rather than leading to a period of dominance, Vicente del Bosque's men sat back and tried to defend their lead and Netherlands accepted the invitation to get forward and finally enjoyed some possession.
However, it was Spain who came closest to scoring a second when Andres Iniesta played in David Silva with a glorious inch-perfect pass but the Manchester City midfielder's tame chipped effort was turned away by Cillessen.
It was a missed opportunity that would come back to haunt Spain as within five minutes, Van Persie had scored the goal that proved the turning point of the match.
The Manchester United striker escaped the attentions of Sergio Ramos and met Daley Blind's crossfield pass with an astonishing 15-yard header that looped over a despairing Casillas.
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Netherlands left the field at the break embracing each other with wide smiles and they carried that momentum into the second half.
Van Gaal's men deservedly took the lead when Xavi - the heartbeat of Spain's midfield for so long - lost possession and Blind supplied another pinpoint aerial pass from the left, which Robben expertly controlled before eluding Gerard Pique and finishing confidently.
Spain were now rocking and Van Persie smashed a half volley against the bar before De Vrij bundled a third goal over the line after Casillas missed Sneijder's inswinging free-kick from the left.
The goalkeeper protested that he had been impeded by Van Persie - and he had a point - but referee Rizzoli was unmoved and the Netherlands were suddenly in control at 3-1 up.
Silva thought he had given the world champions hope when he scored from close-range but his effort was correctly ruled offside.
And moments later, Netherlands were 4-1 up.
Casillas, who produced a stunning save to keep out a Robben volley, turned villain when he miscontrolled a backpass from Sergio Ramos and was tackled by Van Persie, who slid the ball into an empty net.
Robben then capped a fine individual performance with a fine solo goal. The winger raced from inside his own half to latch on to Sneijder's through ball and outpaced Ramos before taking the ball round Casillas and smashing past two defenders on the line.
Spain were in pieces and continued to be torn apart, substitute Jeremain Lens and Robben going close.
And Spain's torrid evening was summed up when substitute Fernando Torres failed to score from three yards. The Chelsea striker looked certain to register a consolation, only for Blind to arrive with a timely last-ditch challenge.
The full-time whistle was met with scenes of Dutch joy and Spanish woe, on the turf and in the stands. Netherlands embarked upon a lap of honour.
It was a result that will send shockwaves through world football.
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Match ends, Spain 1, Holland 5.
Second Half ends, Spain 1, Holland 5.
Foul by Pedro (Spain).
Georginio Wijnaldum (Holland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Wesley Sneijder (Holland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jeremain Lens.
Foul by Andrés Iniesta (Spain).
Nigel de Jong (Holland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Wesley Sneijder (Holland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Arjen Robben.
Hand ball by Jeremain Lens (Holland).
Corner,  Holland. Conceded by Sergio Ramos.
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (Holland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Holland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Andrés Iniesta (Spain) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joël Veltman (Holland).
Offside, Spain. Gerard Piqué tries a through ball, but Fernando Torres is caught offside.
Andrés Iniesta (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joël Veltman (Holland).
Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Ron Vlaar.
Goal!  Spain 1, Holland 5. Arjen Robben (Holland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Wesley Sneijder with a through ball following a fast break.
Jordi Alba (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Jeremain Lens (Holland).
Substitution, Holland. Jeremain Lens replaces Robin van Persie.
Substitution, Spain. Francesc Fábregas replaces David Silva.
Substitution, Holland. Joël Veltman replaces Stefan de Vrij.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Spain) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Pedro (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stefan de Vrij (Holland).
Goal!  Spain 1, Holland 4. Robin van Persie (Holland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Offside, Spain. Sergio Ramos tries a through ball, but Fernando Torres is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Robin van Persie (Holland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Offside, Spain. Pedro tries a through ball, but David Silva is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Pedro (Spain) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by César Azpilicueta with a cross.
Attempt blocked. David Silva (Spain) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Robin van Persie (Holland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Pedro (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robin van Persie (Holland).
Iker Casillas (Spain) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Spain 1, Holland 3. Stefan de Vrij (Holland) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.
Stefan de Vrij (Holland) hits the right post with a header from very close range. Assisted by Wesley Sneijder with a cross following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by Gerard Piqué (Spain).


Luke Wells continued his superb batting form to guide Sussex to a five-wicket win over Leicestershire in Division Two of the County Championship.

Needing another 132 for victory with eight wickets in hand on the final day at Grace Road, Wells finished unbeaten on 90 as Sussex strolled home on 234-5.
Anchored by Wells' 190-ball innings, Sussex never looked in any trouble despite losing three wickets.
Sussex have now won back-to-back games, while Leicestershire are still winless.
Their successive victories have come under new captain Chris Nash after Luke Wright stepped down from the role at the start of the month.
Wells has been instrumental in both wins, scoring 155 in the innings victory over Worcestershire, before his match-winning knock in this game.
Sussex head coach Mark Davis told BBC Radio Sussex:
"In our other two wins this season we've been ahead of the game - but here we've come from behind to show loads of character, skill and guts. It was nice to see.
"A couple of individuals will take the headlines, but it was a proper team performance."


A group of angry zoo investors have fed a live donkey to tigers at a Chinese zoo after a dispute with management.

The incident took place on Monday afternoon at Yancheng city in Jiangsu province in front of stunned visitors.
The zoo said the shareholders had tossed the donkey to the tigers "in a fit of rage", and apologised to the public for the incident.
Video clips and photos of the incident have gone viral on Chinese social media, triggering shocked reactions.
The donkey is seen being pushed out of a truck into a moat in the tigers' enclosure, where it is quickly set upon by the tigers. Zoo visitors can be heard exclaiming in the background.
Representatives at the Yancheng Safari Park declined to answer queries from the BBC.
But in statements (in Chinese) released on its Sina Weibo microblogging account, the zoo said the incident stemmed from a legal case between the zoo and another company.
The case led a court to freeze the zoo's assets two years ago. This meant that it could not sell its animals and its "investment finances shrank", it said.
Several animals, including two giraffes and a chimpanzee, also died because the zoo could not obtain permits to transport them elsewhere for medical treatment.
Its shareholders were "filled with anger for a long time" as they were unable to receive returns on their investments, and were also upset about the animals' deaths.
They suspected that the zoo, together with the court, were "conspiring to cheat small investors of their investments, and so in a fit of rage, decided to feed donkeys and sheep... to tigers", said the management.
Newspaper Xiandai Kuaibao (in Chinese) said that after the donkey was pushed in, zoo staff managed to stop the shareholders from tossing sheep into the moat.
One investor told news outlet The Paper (in Chinese) that they wanted to recoup their losses, and planned on transporting the animals out of the zoo to sell them elsewhere.
But the zoo's security guards stopped them, and the investors reacted angrily.
"Since we could not have any benefits, we thought why not feed to the tigers, at least we can save on animal feed," the unnamed investor said.
The zoo said it was "deeply sorry" and that it would ensure that "a similar incident would never happen again".
It added that it was working to resolve its legal woes and address shareholders' concerns.


Biologists in Colombia say a drought has forced two hippopotamuses into a town in search of food.

The animals are descendants of a group imported in the 1980s by the notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar for his private zoo near the town of Puerto Triunfo in Antioquia province.
They've been seen grazing in fields with cattle and wandering through the town near the city of Medellin.
Local children have been warned to keep away from the animals.
The biologists say they are waiting for specialist dart guns to sedate the hippos so they can move them.
Over the years the population of hippos at the Escobar ranch, Hacienda Napoles, has increased and some have escaped.
Escobar smuggled in elephants, giraffes and other exotic animals for his zoo. Among them were four hippos - three females and one male.
When the ranch was confiscated in the early 1990s, most of the animals were dispersed to zoos around the country but the hippos stayed in their lakes and have multiplied to more than 60.
Correspondents say they have thrived in the tropical Colombian climate, its waterways and rich vegetation.
There have been sightings of them far from the Escobar estate, which has fallen into disrepair since the drugs lord was killed in a shootout in 1993.
There have been years of debate about what to do with the hippos and discussions about whether they should be culled.
But many Colombians like them and there have even been cases of calves being taken home as pets.


European aerospace giant Airbus and its partner, OneWeb, have begun the production of a satellite mega-constellation.

The network will comprise at least 600 spacecraft in the first instance, but could eventually encompass more than 2,000.
The aim is to deliver broadband links from orbit to every corner of the globe.
In particular, the project wants every school to have a connection.
Building so large a constellation requires a step-change in the manufacture of satellites - especially for Airbus.
It can take Europe’s biggest space company many months and hundreds of millions of dollars to build some of today’s specialist platforms. But for the OneWeb venture, it is all about high volume and low cost.
That means new assembly line methods akin to those in factories producing cars and planes.
The idea is to turn out three units per shift at well less than a million dollars a piece.
The boss of Airbus, Tom Enders, concedes he initially thought the OneWeb concept to be fantasy.
"Everything in space as you know traditionally has been 'gold-plated'; it had to work perfectly, [and have] the most expensive materials, etc.
"Here, we’ve had to go other ways, to be really commercial and calculating according to the target cost because that is very decisive in the whole business case for OneWeb," he told BBC News.
Airbus and OneWeb have inaugurated the first assembly line in Toulouse, France. Two further lines will be set up in a soon-to-open factory complex in Florida.
The most obvious difference you notice between these new lines and the conventional satellite cleanroom is the trolley robot, which moves the developing satellites between the various work stations. But the "revolution" here goes far beyond automation; it requires a whole chain of suppliers and their components to scale their work to a different game plan.
The first 10 satellites to come off the Toulouse assembly line have a deadline to launch in April next year.
Another batch will follow into orbit around November. And then the launch cadence will kick on apace.
The establishment of the OneWeb constellation requires the greatest rocket campaign in the history of spaceflight.
More than 20 Soyuz vehicles have been booked to throw clusters of 32-36 satellites into a web some 1,200km above the Earth.
There should be just under 300 on station by the end of 2020, the start of 2021; more than 600 about a year or so later; and then over 800 by the middle of the decade.
OneWeb and Airbus are not the only companies planning a mega-constellation in the sky. SpaceX, Boeing, ViaSat and others have all sought regulatory approval. But not everyone will succeed in getting the necessary multi-billion-dollar financing, and Airbus believes the OneWeb concept has first-mover advantage.
Equity of $1.7bn has already been raised, and talks are ongoing to secure the loans needed to complete the roll-out. OneWeb describes itself as a "truly global company" but it has company registration in the UK's Channel Islands. And, as such, it must deal with the UK Space Agency as the licensing authority.
"A lot of our revenues are going to flow through the UK. So, from an economic perspective, it is going to be very important for the UK," said OneWeb CEO Eric Béranger.
"And when you have people locally, you are also fostering an ecosystem. And I think the UK being at the forefront of regulatory thinking on constellations will foster an environment that puts the UK ahead of many countries."
One aspect that the UKSA is sure to take a keen interest in is debris mitigation. There is considerable concern that a proliferation of multi-satellite networks could lead to large volumes of junk and a cascade of collisions.
The fear is that space could eventually become unusable.
A recent study - sponsored by the European Space Agency and supported by Airbus itself - found that the new constellations would need to de-orbit their old, redundant spacecraft within five years or run the risk of seriously escalating the probability of objects hitting each other.
Brian Holz, who is CEO of the OneWeb/Airbus manufacturing joint venture, said the ambition of his constellation was to set new standards in debris mitigation.
"We can bring down the satellites and re-enter within two years; we've made that commitment," he told BBC News.
"We've put extra hardware into the system to improve the reliability of that de-orbit process. We're also committing to put a small adapter device on to each spacecraft that will allow those spacecraft, in the small probability that one of them dies on the way down, to be grabbed by a small chase vehicle and pulled out of orbit."
Time will tell how disruptive the new manufacturing approaches adopted in Toulouse will be to the satellite industry as a whole.
Airbus and OneWeb hope also to be making satellites for other companies on their assembly lines. But not every platform in the sky will require such volumes and a good number of spacecraft will still need the bespoke treatment.
"Not everything here is application to the whole space industry. When we launch to Jupiter, there are things that will remain gold-plated whether we like it or not; unless of course we start to manufacture 900 satellites to go to Jupiter but this is not the case today,” said Nicolas Chamussy, who runs the satellite division of Airbus.
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Underwater fish "meadows" are being lost at the same rate as the Amazon rain forests, researchers have warned.

Seagrass is a key habitat for feeding and sheltering young fish, including plaice, haddock and pollock.
But every hour an area the size of two football pitches is destroyed.
Scientists from Swansea University believe the habitats need to be protected otherwise fishing stocks could be affected.
"The rate of loss is equal to that occurring in tropical rainforests and on coral reefs yet it receives a fraction of the attention," said Dr Richard Unsworth, lead researcher.
"If you're a small fish, like a juvenile cod, then you need food and shelter. Seagrass meadows provide both."
The biggest threat is from poor water quality and damage caused by boat anchors and moorings.
The Swansea research, for the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc), is part of a global conservation effort to save seagrass.
The team, using baited underwater camera systems and netting, took a year to measure the size and number of fish in seagrass meadows in the seas around Britain, and compared the results with nearby sand habitats.
The study included Porthdinllaen and Pen-y-Chain on the Llyn peninsula in Gwynedd.
In one seagrass site off the Gwynedd coast, divers found 42 fish species, 10 of which are important commercially.
"If there's lots of food available for them to eat and reduced predation, like there is in seagrass meadows, they don't spend all their time hunting for food so they're more likely to survive and put on weight faster," said Dr Unsworth.
"When you start to lose these habitats you'll see smaller juveniles and smaller fish stocks."
The research is part of a wider project assessing the benefits of seagrass meadows across the Atlantic, which is funded by the Welsh government and the EU.
"We want to work with partners around the country to look at trying to get this up the conservation agenda," said Dr Unsworth.


A giant woollen version of Bristol is being frozen to fend off a possible insect infestation.

The collection of hot air balloons, buildings and felt foxes - dubbed Briswool - is being placed in museum freezers ahead of an exhibition in May.
Curator Catherine Littlejohns said the "precautionary measure" was against their "main foes - moths and beetles".
More than 250 knitters and crocheters are involved in the three-year project, started by artist Vicky Harrison.
Ms Littlejohns, from Bristol Museum, said freezing was "a non-invasive process" which doesn't harm the objects.
But freezing at very low temperatures kills any larvae, she said.
"When we take [the objects] out and put them on display we know that they are safe, and that there's not going to be any infestation in the museum of our other collections."
She said the potential for "infestation and damage" came from the "usual clothes moth and carpet beetle".
"They especially like proteins you find in wool, feathers and skin so we have to be extremely careful that we don't get that sort of thing in the museum and that's why everything is frozen," she said.
Ms Harrison said she started the process to pack the items for freezing at her house a few months ago.
"We've had to pack everything into giant plastic bags and they all had to be clipped up and labelled, a bit like getting food ready to go in your home freezer."
She said she was "excited" at the prospect of seeing the complete Briswool model laid out together for the first time when it goes on display next month.
"I've only ever seen sections of it - sections of the river or sections of the hills," she said.
Briswool will be on show at the Mshed  from 14 May.


Islamic State (IS) has released an audio message it says is from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which if confirmed would be the first in months.

The message urges Muslims to emigrate to the "caliphate" it has proclaimed in areas of Syria and Iraq. A reference to the Yemen conflict means it is recent.
Analysts say the voice appears to be Baghdadi's but this is not verified.
Baghdadi's fate has been unclear amid reports of air strikes by the US-led coalition that is opposing IS.
The message came as IS advanced to within 2km (1.2 miles) of the Unesco World Heritage site of Palmyra, one of the archaeological jewels of the Middle East.
Syria's antiquities chief warned that if IS seized Palmyra it would destroy everything that exists there.
The latest message was released by the group's al-Furqan media outlet and appeared on several websites.
Analysis: BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner
The voice on the audio recording is clear, assured and, in places, almost melodic. If it is indeed, as is claimed, the voice of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, then it will put paid to previous rumours of his death.
Since we don't actually see him he could, of course, be physically incapacitated. But the lengthy, 33-minute speech does not sound like one made by someone in failing health. The speaker, who makes continual use of religious quotations, exhorts Muslims around the world to join forces with his group.
Most significantly, he mentions the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen which began on 26 March, meaning this recording can be no more than seven weeks old.
US government linguistic experts will have doubtless been quick to analyse the voice patterns on the tape to see if they match earlier recordings of Baghdadi when he appeared in vision last year.
The speaker says: "There is no excuse for any Muslim not to migrate to the Islamic State... joining [its fight] is a duty on every Muslim. We are calling on you either to join or carry weapons [to fight] wherever you are."
He adds: "Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No-one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels."
IS declared a "caliphate" over parts of Iraq and Syria in June 2014.
The speaker in the message says: "There is no might nor honour nor safety nor rights for you except in the shade of the caliphate."
The speaker also makes references to the recent Saudi-led air campaign against Shia rebels in Yemen, which began on 26 March. He condemns the Saudi royal family and says the conflict in Yemen will lead to the end of its rule.
Baghdadi's last message was in November.
His only public appearance was to deliver a sermon in Mosul in Iraq after IS took the city last July.
An Iraqi interior ministry spokesman said in April that Baghdadi had been seriously wounded in a coalition air strike in March.
However, the Pentagon said it had no information on that, and other reports last year of him being injured proved to be inaccurate.
The Iraqi ministry of defence said on Wednesday that the second-in-command of IS, Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, was killed in an undated coalition air strike on a mosque in northern Iraq.
But the US said coalition planes had not attacked a mosque.
Profile: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi


The families of Welsh servicemen killed during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have laid wreaths at a new memorial outside the Ministry of Defence in London.

The names of those killed in 12 years of fighting were read out in front of the Â£1m monument.
The relatives were among those who had not been invited to the original opening ceremony in March.
It was described as a "wonderful tribute" to those who died.
Army Chaplain, Reverend Amy Walters, told them: "You need no reminder, no name inscribed on a wall, no monument - you will never forget.
"The Army, though, and the nation have to remind themselves because the world moves on."
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said March's ceremony had been oversubscribed, with all the families of 682 British service personnel unable to attend.
The Royal Welsh Regiment organised Thursday's trip so relatives could have their own more intimate service at the stone and bronze monument dedicated to their sons, husbands, brothers, wives and fiancees.
The regiment, and before it, The Royal Regiment of Wales and The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, lost 13 men in the conflicts.
Pte Craig Barber, from Ogmore Vale in Bridgend county, was killed driving a Warrior armoured vehicle in Iraq in 2007. His grandfather Lance Barber said: "It's a wonderful tribute, really brilliant."
However, Pte Barber's grandmother Marion added: "But it doesn't get any easier."
L/Cpl Ryan Francis, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, died in Afghanistan after his Warrior armoured vehicle was blown up by an improvised explosive 10 years ago, almost to the day.
His father Greg said the service brought it all back: "Lovely memorial, but it's hard going," he told me.
His other son Gregg thanked the regiment for laying on the event, but added: "It would have been nice to have been invited to the event in March."
Between 1990 and 2015, 682 military personnel lost their lives in the region:
In 2009, Pte James Prosser from Cwmbran, Torfaen, died. He too was in a Warrior vehicle and it was an explosion that killed him in Afghanistan.
His mother in Sarah Adams has since become an accomplished campaigner for the rights of soldiers and bereaved families.
Thanks to her, many regiments have improved the way they deal with families at the time of a soldier's death and through the grieving process.
For example, casualty notification officers and visiting officers now have to be better trained and appointed more on merit than rank.
But on the journey to the London service, she told me there was still a lot of work to be done.
"All regiments should have someone in place dealing with bereaved families long after the event," she argued.
"It's too big a task for the MoD to look after them, to remember to invite them to all the events.
"The Royal Welsh is really good. It now sends out cards on Remembrance Sunday and on the anniversaries of soldiers' deaths to all the families, and makes sure they are all informed of events coming up.
"But not all regiments are as good as that."
I will not forget watching this mother endure the ordeal of her son James's inquest in Newport a year after his death.
And I watched today as she held back the tears when her son's name was read out in front of the memorial.
"It's a reality check, to think James is part of a memorial. It's not what you want for them, is it?" she remarked.
"I wanted so much more for him than to be part of Afghanistan and that legacy."


Fewer 999 ambulance calls will be classed as life-threatening and needing a super-fast response in the biggest shake-up of the service in 40 years.

The move by the NHS in England - and agreed by ministers - will result in about 8% of call-outs being classed as needing the quickest response.
Currently half of call-outs are, but many are not serious or could wait longer for paramedics to arrive.
NHS bosses said it would free up crews to reach the sickest more quickly.
They said the targets that were being used now were "blunt" and "dysfunctional" and meant too many ambulances were being dispatched just to meet targets rather than prioritising patients appropriately.
The changes have been backed by medical experts after being carefully piloted on 14m 999 calls over the past 18 months.
In one of the pilot sites, cardiac arrest patients received a response 30 seconds quicker than they did previously, the evaluation by Sheffield University found. If this was repeated across the country, it could save 250 lives.
Wales has already introduced a similar system, while Scotland is piloting its own version.
Under the changes, call handlers will also be given four minutes before they need to send out a crew to assess what the patient needs - currently they have only 60 seconds.
Combined with fewer patients being classed as life-threatening, the pilots suggest this will create an efficient system and will put no patients at risk.
Currently about a quarter of life-threatening calls do not end up needing hospital treatment, but the rush to hit the eight-minute target to reach them can see multiple crews dispatched - one in four "blue-light" calls are stood down before they reach the scene.
However, it does mean some patients who should have received an eight minute response, such as those who have suffered a stroke, could now wait 40 minutes.
Doctors, though, argue what is more important is that they get the right treatment in hospital - and this will now be more closely measured under the new system of targets.
Prof Keith Willett, of NHS England, said one of the problems with the current system was that crews were being unnecessarily dispatched to "stop the clock".
"This has led to the inefficient use of ambulances, with the knock-on effect of hidden waits," he explained.
These hidden waits are essentially where a first responder bike or car arrives when an ambulance is needed.
Currently an estimated one million people a year - one in four of those who need transporting to hospital - find themselves in this situation.
Under the changes:
The new system will also measure average waits for life-threatening and emergency cases - this is to ensure that every call out counts towards the target.
One of the criticisms of the existing system is that once the target time has been missed there is less incentive to get a crew to the patient quickly.
The changes will be rolled out across the service by the autumn after pilots in three of England's 10 ambulance services.
College of Paramedics chief executive Gerry Egan said he was "fully supportive" of the move.
"It is vital to patient care that paramedics are targeted to the most appropriate patients."
And Juliet Bouverie, of the Stroke Association, said even though stroke patients may wait longer for that first response, she thought the changes would be beneficial.
"Under the current system, the first responder to a stroke patient could be on a motorbike - but this vehicle can't transport the patient to hospital meaning they have to wait even longer for an ambulance to arrive.
"By allowing ambulance call handlers a little more time to determine what is wrong with a patient, it ensures that stroke patients can be identified and the right vehicle sent out immediately to get the patient to a stroke unit."


Butlin's holiday resort in Skegness is celebrating its 80th anniversary.

12 October 2016 Last updated at 20:14 BST
It was opened in the Lincolnshire resort by leisure entrepreneur Billy Butlin to offer affordable family holidays at a time when travelling abroad was for the privileged.
The attraction is still going strong, with more than a million tourists visiting so far this year.


David Cameron has re-appointed four of his most senior ministers following the Conservatives' general election victory.

Chancellor George Osborne, Home Secretary Theresa May, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon stay in post.
Mr Osborne has also been given the title of first secretary of state, previously held by William Hague.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced the appointments on Twitter.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said the appointments showed the PM valued "continuity".
"He does think there's merit in people understanding their briefs absolutely and completely," he added.
Mr Cameron will carry out a more comprehensive reshuffle to fill posts that were held by Liberal Democrats under the coalition government.
The Conservatives have won 331 seats - a result Mr Cameron called "the sweetest victory of all".
In a video, obtained by The Spectator magazine, he thanked aides and supporters at Conservative HQ.
He said the Tories "are going to get the opportunity to serve our country again" and he wanted to "offer real hope to people".
Employment minister Esther McVey was a prominent Tory loss overnight, but Conservative Andrea Jenkyns unseated Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls in the Morley and Outwood constituency by 422 votes.
And Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay ended Nigel Farage's bid to become MP for Thanet South - beating the UKIP leader by a majority of nearly 3,000.
Mr Cameron told supporters: "I remember 2010, achieving that dream of getting Labour out and getting the Tories back in and that was amazing. But I think this is the sweetest victory of all.
"So many things to be proud of in this result. The fact that we held on in Scotland, the fact that we extended our representation in Wales...
"The fact that at every election we always think we're going to displace those Lib Dems in the West Country. We've finally done it."
Following a campaign in which many polls put Labour and the Conservatives neck and neck, he added: "The pundits got it wrong, the polls got it wrong, the commentators got it wrong."
The Conservatives took a number of seats from the Liberal Democrats in the south west of England and held on to their one Scottish seat of Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC there would be difficulties for the Conservatives in governing with a small majority.
"Whatever else we now do we keep it simple, we keep it focused and we absolutely stick to our manifesto commitments," he said.
"The whole process is about understanding how to make legislation where you need to but not do legislation where you don't."
But he said a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union was a "red line" for the Tories.
Ms McVey, who lost her Wirral West seat to Labour by 417 seats, went out fighting, saying: "I'm coming back - I want to be an MP."
London Mayor Boris Johnson, who won the Uxbridge and Ruislip South seat with a 10,000-vote majority, said: "We're very excited by some of the results that are coming through. Overall, I think it's been an amazing night for the Conservatives."
But he said all parties must take account of the rise of the SNP in Scotland.
"There has to be some sort of federal offer'' in light of the huge increase in SNP MPs, he said.


A Northern Ireland man who critically injured his brother in Australia has pleaded guilty to recklessly causing grievous bodily harm.

Barry Lyttle, from Ballycastle, County Antrim, was filmed on CCTV punching his younger brother, Patrick, outside a nightclub in Sydney, A January.
Patrick Lyttle spent a week in a coma but made a good recovery.  He asked the court to show leniency to his attacker.
Barry Lyttle broke down as a prosecutor said he should be jailed.
The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported that both brothers arrived together for the hearing at Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on Thursday.
Patrick Lyttle read an emotional impact statement, saying "everyone can see how much my brother has suffered".
He told the magistrate that the only way he could make a full recovery was for his brother Barry to be allowed to go home to Northern Ireland with the rest of their family.
"When my family is healed I will be healed," he said.
Patrick Lyttle added that if his brother was released without jail, the pair intended to travel around Ireland together, speaking to young people about the consequences of violence.
However, a prosecutor said he believed that a full-time jail term was "the only appropriate sentence" for the attack.
Barry Lyttle is due to return to court to be sentence on 24 April.


The Knights of Malta military order of the Catholic church - which dates back to the time of the Crusades - has celebrated its 900th birthday in Rome.

The order is one of the few created in the Middle Ages that is still active.
It has now become a major international humanitarian organisation.
The order says that its battles today are no longer fought with swords, but with "peaceful tools against disease, poverty, social isolation as well as protecting the faith".
It was officially recognised by Pope Paschal II in February 1113.
More than 1,000 knights and dames from more than 100 countries - all dressed in flowing black robes bearing their order's distinctive eight-pointed cross on their shoulders - walked in procession into St Peter's Basilica.
Ancient Knights in modern world
They attended a Mass led by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone.
At the end of the ceremony, the knights were addressed by Pope Benedict XVI who congratulated them for their charitable work among the sick and the poor.
"Your esteemed and beneficent activity, carried out in a variety of fields and in different parts of the world... is not mere philanthropy, but an effective expression and a living testimony of evangelical love," the pontiff said.
The current Grand Master of the Order, Briton Matthew Festing, told the BBC: "It's interesting that a small band of Crusaders has expanded into this huge worldwide organisation.
"The reason we've survived is because we have changed from knights in armour to what we are now in the 21st Century.  We are still doing what we did then, looking after the sick."
The order was originally founded by a group of aristocratic European Crusaders who looked after sick pilgrims in Jerusalem in the 12th Century, when they received official papal recognition.
Centuries later, they were chased from their headquarters in Malta by Napoleon and now have their headquarters in an ancient palace in the smartest and most fashionable shopping area of central Rome.
Today they run hospitals and humanitarian operations in more than 120 countries.
Our correspondent says that the order is eager to shed its image as a club for wealthy European aristocrats and is now searching for new talent to continue its worldwide mission.


The UK terror threat level has been raised to its highest level of "critical", meaning further attacks may be imminent, Theresa May has said.

The move came after investigators were unable to rule out whether Manchester bombing suspect Salman Abedi acted alone, the prime minister said.
Military personnel will now be deployed to protect key sites.
Twenty-two people were killed and 59 injured when a suicide bomber attacked Manchester Arena on Monday evening.
The prime minister said soldiers would be placed in key public locations to support armed police in protecting the public.
Military personnel may also be seen at other events over the coming weeks, such as concerts, Mrs May said, working under the command of police officers.
The prime minister said she did not want the public to feel "unduly alarmed" but said it was a "proportionate and sensible response".
The highest threat level, which is decided by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - a group of experts from the police, government departments and agencies - has only been reached twice before.
Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, who is the national counter-terrorism policing lead, said the investigation was "fast-moving and making good progress".
"However, a critical line of inquiry is whether the dead terrorist was acting alone or part of a group," he said.
"We still have critical lines of inquiry they're chasing down which has led to a level of uncertainty."
The first time the threat level was raised to critical was in 2006 during a major operation to stop a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners with liquid bombs.
The following year, security chiefs raised it once more as they hunted for the men who had tried to bomb a London nightclub, before going on to attack Glasgow Airport.
Former Salford University student Salman Abedi - understood to be a 22-year-old born in Manchester to parents of Libyan descent -  is thought to have blown himself up in the arena's foyer shortly after 22:30 BST on Monday.
Fans were beginning to leave a concert by US singer Ariana Grande.
Three of his victims have been named - Saffie Rose Roussos, eight, Georgina Callander - thought to be 18 - and John Atkinson, 28.
So-called Islamic State has said - via IS channels on the messaging app Telegram - it was behind the Manchester attack, but this has not been verified.
This is a major and very rare move by the UK's security chiefs.
For the past few years, ministers, police chiefs and others have been at pains to try to warn the public that the threat faced by the UK was severe.
But they have steered clear of warning, even when a major plot was being tracked, that an attack could be close. This time, they feel they have no choice other than to say it may be imminent.
In short, nobody at this stage can say for sure whether Abedi acted alone or with the help of others. They can't rule out if there are other people out there.
What does it mean for us, the public?
Some of us will see the Army in key locations that need guarding so that armed police can be freed to focus on policing rather than guarding.
We should expect additional time-consuming security checks at ports and so on.
The aim for security chiefs is to ratchet up the security while keeping the country moving.
The wounded, who include 12 children aged under 16, are being treated at eight hospitals across Manchester.
Several people are still missing, including Eilidh MacLeod, 14, from Barra in the Outer Hebrides, 15-year-old Olivia Campbell, Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19.
Eilidh's friend, Laura MacIntyre, 15 - who was also reported as missing - was later identified as one of the seriously injured in a Manchester hospital.
Thousands of people turned out for the vigil in Manchester and to hold a minute's silence to remember those who died.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Commons Speaker John Bercow stood on stage alongside Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins.
Vigils have been held elsewhere, including in Birmingham, where the event was interrupted after a man apparently armed with a large knife and a baseball bat was detained nearby.
The arena bombing is the worst terrorist attack in the UK since the 7 July bombings in 2005, in which 52 people were killed by four suicide bombers.
Witnesses at the arena described seeing metal nuts and bolts among the debris of Monday's bomb, and spoke about the fear and confusion that gripped concert-goers.
Andy Holey, who had gone to pick up his wife and daughter, said: "An explosion went off and it threw me about 30ft from one set of doors to the other set of doors."
Emma Johnson, who was waiting for her children, aged 15 and 17, said: "The whole building shook. There was a blast and then a flash of fire afterwards. There were bodies everywhere."
Teenager Abigail Walker told the BBC: "I had to make sure I had my sister. I grabbed hold of her and pulled hard. Everyone was running and crying.
"It was absolutely terrifying."


Olympic sevens winning coach Ben Ryan has been honoured with a commemorative 50 cent coin in Fiji.

The Englishman, 45, led Fiji's rugby sevens side to gold with a 43-7 win over Great Britain in the final at the Rio Olympics last August.
He tweeted a picture of himself on the coin with the message: "Fiji's new 50c coin - what a journey I've had."
Ryan was also given three acres of land in Fiji after helping the Pacific nation win their first Olympic medal.
In addition he was awarded the Companion of the Order of Fiji, the highest honour in the country.
Ryan coached England's sevens side from 2007 to 2013 and joined the Welsh Rugby Union as a consultant in January.


South Yorkshire Police spent at least £2.1m on legal fees representing its suspended Chief Constable David Crompton during the Hillsborough Inquests, the BBC has discovered.

Mr Crompton's barrister alone was paid over £1m to represent him.
Several victims' families complained to the police watchdog about Mr Crompton's conduct during the inquests.
They claim the chief constable "instructed his legal team to pour blame on to Liverpool fans".
South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Dr Alan Billings said the legal costs - which were footed by the taxpayer - were a result of the length of the inquest, which began in March 2014.
£2.1m
on legal fees representing former Chief Constable David Crompton
£1m
paid to his barrister
£25.1m total cost of inquest
£20.8m paid by the Home Office
£4.3m paid by the police force
BBC News uncovered the costs after analysing thousands of data entries on the South Yorkshire Police's public spending log.
The final figure is likely to be higher as data covering February to April 2016, when the inquest finished, has not yet been published.
The inquests jury concluded all 96 Liverpool football fans who died at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final  in Sheffield were unlawfully killed.
The day after the inquest, Mr Crompton was suspended from service and Dr Billings is currently undertaking proceedings to dismiss him from the service.
Mr Crompton, along with eight former police officers, was awarded concerned persons status by the coroner ahead of the proceedings, entitling him to legal representation paid for by the taxpayer.
Mr Crompton issued an apology for the disaster hours after the conclusions of the inquests and said he accepted the findings.
But in May, Jackson Canter Solicitors acting on behalf of 20 bereaved Hillsborough families submitted a complaint to the Independent Police Complaint Commission (IPCC) about Mr Crompton's conduct during the inquest.
They allege he instructed his legal team to try and pour blame onto Liverpool fans meaning the inquest proceedings were lengthened, public money was wasted and the distress of the Hillsborough families heightened.
The IPCC said it is in receipt of the complaint and has been in contact with Dr Billings about determining how best to investigate it.
Margaret Aspinall, who lost her son in the disaster, said the process of funding legal fees related to the disaster has been unfair from the beginning.
"It's a disgrace when you think about all the money that has been spent and the police have had over a number of years and we didn't get any help whatsoever apart from these last two years in court," she said.
Dr Billings says the decision about the legal representation of David Crompton was made by the former PCC of South Yorkshire Shaun Wright who resigned from the post amid the fall out from the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal in September 2014 - six months after the inquest started.
"The advice given to me was that if I came in and changed those arrangements in an attempt to save money then I could have opened the force up to future legal challenges, which could have cost us even more money," he said.
In a statement on behalf of Fiona Barton QC it was confirmed that between 1 October 2013 and 26 April 2016 she was paid a total of £1,035,673.33 for her services representing David Crompton during the inquest.
Using other data from the police log and a Freedom of Information request, the BBC has established the remainder of the £2.1m spent representing Mr Crompton went on other individual legal representatives.
Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham has called for the creation of a "Hillsborough Law" which would ensure legal funding for bereaved families at inquests where police are involved.
South Yorkshire Police have previously confirmed the total cost of the Hillsbrough Inquest reached £25.1m - of which £20.8m was paid for by the Home Office and £4.3m was paid by the force itself.
Dr Billings expressed his disappointment about the amount of public money spent on the inquest process.
"We'd already had the Hillsborough Independent Panel which reached the conclusion it did," he said.
"I just think it's such a shame the inquests were drawn out for such a long period of time and therefore all of that money, or a great deal of that money, could probably have been saved".


England's remarkable Ashes success is a great achievement for the team, and a huge personal triumph for captain Alastair Cook.

I've been tracking his path from the start of the whitewash series down under to today and there have been plenty of bumps along the way.
His style of captaincy came under relentless fire as he was accused of being reactive rather than proactive and his batting form suffered badly as a result. It has been a rough time but what has always shone through is his resilience.
I suggested to Cook at Lord's that the constant scrutiny over his captaincy may have actually helped him to become better.
He disagreed, but I think it's still a valid question, given the incredible improvement we have seen in this series.
He has led this team brilliantly and totally out-thought his Australia counterpart Michael Clarke, who has long been considered one of most innovative captains in world cricket.
His field placings and bowling changes have been sharp, and at times he has been ruthless.
On Saturday, for example, it was some call not to open the bowling with Stuart Broad, who had the opportunity to complete a 10-wicket match haul at his home ground to win the Ashes.
Instead, Cook chose to go with Mark Wood and Ben Stokes, who had used the conditions so well on Friday, and the decision paid off as England took the last three Australia wickets inside 39 minutes.
The three-day victory completed a staggering turnaround, not only for Cook, but for a team that looked so listless during that heavy defeat by West Indies in Barbados in May.
That set off a chain of events that saw Peter Moores and Paul Downton fired and Kevin Pietersen launch a bid for a recall before Andrew Strauss put paid to that possibility on his first day as England director of cricket.
It certainly did not feel like the ideal platform for an Ashes-winning summer.
I think England have a lot to thank New Zealand for. They came here and played attacking, positive cricket and England have tried to emulate them.
They have thrown off the shackles and played the type of attacking cricket that wins you matches - and series.
It is amazing how quickly the wheel turns. Only 18 months ago, Australia looked invincible, but suddenly Clarke is quitting and it looks like several others may also be retiring or set to lose their places.
England, on the other hand, look a settled unit, with Jimmy Anderson possibly the only player whose longevity you would question.
Joe Root is blossoming into a top-class international batsman. It can only be a good thing that it will now be some time before he gets burdened by the captaincy.
That four England bowlers took six wickets or more in successive Test innings suggests the seam attack is also in good order.
Ben Stokes bowled brilliantly here, swinging the ball both ways at pace, while Mark Wood looked at his best as he claimed the final two wickets. When you add in Anderson, Broad and Steven Finn, it's a healthy state of affairs.
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The two areas of concern are the spinner and the opening batsman, as coach Trevor Bayliss has identified.
To have any chance against Pakistan in the autumn tour in the United Arab Emirates, England will need a front-line spinner taking wickets, so it may be that Moeen Ali moves up to open and Adil Rashid is brought in.
That is a question for another day. For now, England should reflect on what they have done and how they have done it.
They have talked a lot about unity and they certainly seem a genuinely contented bunch of players.
Under huge pressure they did not buckle. They showed great resilience to overcome the horrors of Lord's and bounce back at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge.
Their celebrations are richly deserved.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Sam Sheringham


The mayor of Los Angeles has come up with novel way of warning residents about a major traffic closure this weekend: singing a slow jam.

Eric Garcetti recorded an R&B-style number, complete with music video, in an attempt to soften the news that the 101 freeway will shut for 40 hours.
As factual as it is funky, depending on your tastes, the song contains lots of useful information about the closure.
The freeway is being closed while the city demolishes the 6th Street Bridge.
Backed by the local Theodore Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, Mr Garcetti sings: "See we're bringing down the 6th Street Bridge, making way for something new and the demolition will cause delays.
"But sometimes, just sometimes, you have to get your hands dirty to build something beautiful.
"So on Friday night the 101 Freeway east of downtown will take a break for 40 hours of R&R ... and R&B."
The music was an original score written and performed by the band, according to the LA Times.
The 84-year-old 6th Street Bridge is being torn down because of deterioration in the concrete, the Times said.
The work is expected to take nine months and a replacement bridge is planned for completion in late 2019.


An Argentine campaign group says it has found another child of political prisoners detained and killed under junta military rule in the 1970s.

The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo organisation says the total number of children it has found is now 116.
The group's president, Estela Carlotto, said the young person they found was raised in the home of a doctor.
The junta snatched hundreds of babies from their opponents and gave them to sympathisers to bring up.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo was formed to reunite biological parents and grandparents with hundreds of children born in prisons and torture centres.
The organisation said the parents of the "116th child" found were a student couple, named Hugo Alberto Castro and Ana Rubel.
They were kidnapped in 1977 and taken to the largest interrogation and torture centre in Argentina, the infamous naval training school, ESMA, which lies just outside Buenos Aires.
In August, Ms Carlotto announced that she had found her own long-lost grandson. He was born in 1978 to Ms Carlotto's daughter, Laura, a young history student and political activist held by the military junta.
Laura was killed in captivity two months later, one of 30,000 left-wing activists murdered during the 1976-1983 military rule.
1976: General Jorge Videla seizes power - thousands of political opponents rounded up and killed
1982: Videla's successor, General Leopoldo Galtieri, orders invasion of British-held Falkland Islands
1983: Civilian rule returns to Argentina, investigations into rights abuses begin
2010: Videla sentenced to life imprisonment for murders during his term in office
2012: Videla sentenced to 50 years for overseeing systematic theft of the babies of political prisoners


A statement by US President-elect Donald Trump that Nato is "obsolete" has caused "worry" in the alliance, Germany's foreign minister says.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it was a contradiction of comments made days ago by Mr Trump's incoming defence chief.
Mr Trump also said German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made "a catastrophic mistake" by admitting more than one million migrants.
And he threatened German car makers with high import tariffs.
Shares in BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler fell after he warned that cars built in Mexico, where they have invested in factories, would be taxed at 35% if exported to the US.
BMW said the company would stick to its plans to open a Mexican plant in 2019.
Mr Trump was giving an interview in New York to two British and German newspapers, the Times and Bild, at Trump Tower.
Donald Trump's comments have caused dismay, concern - but perhaps not surprise - in Berlin. Few expected the new transatlantic relationship to echo the warm and trusting alliance nurtured by Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, who was a vocal supporter of Mrs Merkel's refugee policy.
There is anger, too. Germany's outspoken Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel retorted that the migrant crisis was the result of "faulty, interventionist American policies in the Mediterranean and Middle East".
That Mr Trump should take aim at Germany's car manufacturers has also raised eyebrows, though few here believe his Congress would approve the 35% tax he appears to be threatening to impose on imported vehicles.
Germans were largely unimpressed by Mr Trump during his election campaign and now, despite his own German heritage, the president-elect is doing little to endear himself.
Mr Trump called Nato "obsolete" because it "wasn't taking care of terror".
Nato, he said, was "very important" to him but only five of its 28 member-states were paying their fair share and that, he said, was "very unfair to the United States".
Figures released by Nato show that just five member-states met or surpassed its defence spending goal - 2% of GDP - last year.
Speaking in Brussels after consulting Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Mr Steinmeier said the president-elect's comments had caused "worry and concern".
"This is in contradiction with what the American defence minister said in his hearing in Washington only some days ago," the German foreign minister said.
At his Senate confirmation hearing last week, Mr Trump's choice for defence secretary, Gen James Mattis, had described Nato as central to US defence, and had accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to "break" the alliance.
Later, Mr Steinmeier was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying: "I've spoken today not only with EU foreign ministers but Nato foreign ministers as well and can report that the signals are that there's been no easing of tensions."
Only last week, the US deployed 3,000 soldiers, 80 tanks and hundreds of armoured vehicles to Poland in a move by President Barack Obama to reassure Nato allies concerned about a more aggressive Russia.
President Putin's official spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Monday it was too early to give a full response to a suggestion by Mr Trump that US sanctions against Russia over Ukraine could be dropped in return for a nuclear warhead reduction deal.
Mr Peskov also denied reports Mr Putin and Mr Trump were going to hold a summit in Iceland.
Mr Trump said the EU had become "basically a vehicle for Germany".
Referring to the German chancellor's response to an influx of refugees and other irregular migrants in 2015, he said: "I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals..."
Mrs Merkel responded by saying the EU had to take responsibility for itself. "We Europeans have our fate in our own hands," she said in Berlin.
Her Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said Europeans should show more self-confidence in dealing with Mr Trump. "We're not weak and inferior," he told Bild.
Mr Trump linked the migrant issue with Brexit, suggesting it was a reason UK voters opted to leave the bloc.
He promised a quick trade deal between the US and the UK after he takes office on Friday but a European Commission spokeswoman reiterated that the UK would not be allowed to engage in formal talks involving a trade deal with the US until 2019, after leaving the EU.
Elsewhere in his interview, Mr Trump
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


Two people have been killed by a powerful typhoon which swept Taiwan on Monday night.

About 1.8 million homes lost power during Typhoon Dujuan, which brought gusts of up to 227km/h (141mph).
Thousands of people had been evacuated from vulnerable areas ahead of the arrival of the storm, and tens of thousands of troops were on standby.
Some areas received more than 900mm of rain in just one day, about one third the average annual rainfall for Taiwan.
Dujuan weakened as it headed over China's south-eastern Fujian province on Tuesday morning.
In addition to the elderly person and construction worker who died, more than 300 people were injured in Taiwan, says the BBC's Cindy Sui in the capital, Taipei.
Schools have remained closed for a second day while air and rail transportation are disrupted. Authorities have warned there is still a risk of mudslides and high waves in coastal areas.
The storm forced US rock band Bon Jovi to cancel their gig in Taipei for a second night.
The two gigs would have been the band's first in Taiwan in 20 years - the Tuesday night performance had only been added after China abruptly cancelled the Beijing leg of their tour.
Around 3,000 people, mostly tourists, were evacuated from Taiwan's Green Island and Orchid Island on Sunday, with around 4,000 more moved from vulnerable areas on Monday.
Some of those were transported from the hot spring town of Wulai, near Taipei. Wulai was badly hit by Typhoon Soudelor in August and the Weather Bureau warned that rubble left over from that could cause more damage this time.
Soudelor, the most powerful storm of the season so far, killed at least eight people in Taiwan and a further 21 in China.


Britain's Got Talent finalist Daliso Chaponda has landed his own stand-up comedy show on BBC Radio 4.

The series will see the Malawian comedian will take on the role of "cultural relationship guidance counsellor", the station said.
The history of Britain's relationship with Africa will be explored in the series, called Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere.
Daliso said he was "extremely excited" to front the show, which airs in 2018.
"Radio 4 is what I've listened to on trains and buses to gigs for years. I am delighted I'll now be able to tune in to myself," he said.
Daliso has previously co-created and starred in Radio 4's drama When the Laughter Stops in 2014 and he also appeared on The Now Show earlier this year.
The comedian has lived all over the world with his refugee-turned-diplomat father, and now frequently performs in both Africa and the UK.
Last month, he finished in third place in ITV's Britain's Got Talent, behind pianist Tokio Myers and eight-year-old magician Issy Simpson.
Sioned Wiliam, commissioning editor for comedy for BBC Radio 4, said: "Daliso's comedy is shrewd and thought-provoking as well as being very, very funny.
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Chris Eubank Jr retained his IBO world super-middleweight title by beating former two-weight world champion Arthur Abraham with a unanimous points win.

Eubank Jr, 27, produced a fine display to win by margins of 118-110, 118-110 and 120-108 at Wembley Arena.
It was only the sixth defeat of Abraham's 52-fight career.
Eubank Jr will now take part in the inaugural World Boxing Super Series - an eight-man tournament featuring some of the biggest names in the division.
WBA champion George Groves and fellow Britons Callum Smith and Jamie Cox are also in the competition, which has a $50m (£38m) prize fund.
Eubank Jr will fight Turkey's Avni Yildirim in the Super Series quarter-finals in the autumn, with semi-finals in January and a May final in a tournament which organisers say will "change the world of boxing."
Abraham, 37, has beaten Britain's Paul Smith (twice) and Martin Murray in his career and lost on points to Carl Froch in November 2010.
But the German, who has held world titles at middleweight and super-middleweight, was outclassed by the younger man.
Eubank took his record to 25 wins and one defeat and felt he made "a statement" with the victory. He told ITV Sport: "He's the most durable opponent I've faced. I hit him with every punch in the book.
"I'm happy with the performance. I got to show my skills, I got to go the 12 rounds and get the experience in."
His father, Chris Eubank Sr, a former two-weight world champion, added: "I believe he's the best in the world. Over the coming nine months, he will be able to clean the slate and come away with the Muhammad Ali Trophy and all the belts."
On the undercard, Wales' Lee Selby retained his IBF world featherweight title with a unanimous points win over Argentina's Jonathan Victor Barros.
Selby, 30, knocked the Argentine down in the last round before getting a wide verdict, with one judge scoring it 119-108 and two marking it as 117-110.
In the featherweight division, Sheffield-based Kid Galahad maintained his unbeaten record with a 10th-round stoppage of Mexican Jose Cayetano.
Galahad, 27, has now won all 22 of his professional bouts and this victory saw him collect the vacant IBF Inter-Continental title.
Liverpool's Robbie Davies Jr suffered his first professional defeat in 16 contests as he was stopped in the last round of his super-lightweight bout with Poland's Michal Syrowatka.
Martin Joseph Ward held on to his British super-featherweight belt and also gained the Commonwealth title with a unanimous points win over previously undefeated Anthony Cacace.
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Sebastian Vettel's angry antics in Azerbaijan were jaw-dropping to say the least.

But Formula 1 is a high pressure game, and drivers have blown their top before.
See if you can work out who did what to whom in our anger management quiz.
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A trailer filled with 90 tonnes of domestic waste was dumped on a street in an act of "fly-tipping on an industrial scale", a council has said.

Manchester City Council used a crane to remove the 44ft (13.5m) trailer, which had sunk into the road surface in South Street, Openshaw.
The cost of removal and disposal was almost Â£10,000.
Councillor Nigel Murphy said the people who dumped it had "stolen from Manchester taxpayers".
The trailer, which weighed double the legal limit, had been stripped of usable parts and scrap metal, as well as all its identifying features, such as registration plates.
Mr Murphy said investigators suspected the waste had "come from a site used to sort skips".
A council spokesman said it was hoped "someone working in logistics" would recognise the vehicle, which was described as "an old tri-axle steel waste hydraulic ejector trailer".


Mireia Belmonte became Spain's first female Olympic gold medallist in the pool with victory in the women's 200m butterfly in Rio.

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Belmonte, who won silver at London 2012, finished in two minutes 4.85 seconds, beating Australian Maddie Groves by three hundreths of a second.
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World champion Natsumi Hoshi secured Japan's 11th bronze of these Games.
Hungarian Katinka Hosszu, who has three golds in Rio, withdrew from the heats on Tuesday to focus on other events.
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