For a decade it provided vulnerable young people with a lifeline - then it disappeared overnight.

Two months after the BeatBullying Group shutdown its services, there are calls for an investigation into how and why this happened.
Anti-bullying charities, former employees and young service users are all demanding answers.
The Charity Commission says it's their intention to publish a full report next year.
The BeatBullying Group looked after both the anti-bullying charity BeatBullying and the mental health charity MindFull UK.
Back in October bosses admitted it was having money problems, and agreed to call in an administrator in a bid to keep the company running.
Since then though the charity has gone into voluntary liquidation with debts of more than £1 million.
Board trustees have told Newsbeat they've been advised not to discuss the circumstances that led to its sudden collapse.
That silence has been met with frustration from young service users, former employees and other charities.
Alex Holmes is the Vice Chair of the Anti-Bullying Alliance.
"This was public money and clearly if that hasn't been used effectively there needs to be an investigation into that," he said.
"I think there's a real role for the Charity Commission to play here, questions for the trustees to answer and ultimately the management team."
Newsbeat has approached the Charity Commission on numerous occasions, but so far they've refused to talk to us.
In a statement they said: "We have met the trustees of the charity who have provided us with information about how the charity got into this position.
"We are currently analysing this information, along with information from other sources, to determine whether there are any regulatory concerns."
Over the past three years the BeatBullying Group's received over £2 million in public funds.
In 2011 the Office for Civil Society awarded the charity £1.3 million to expand its services.
It also received funding from the Cabinet Office, European Commission and £850,000 donation from ITV's Text Santa Appeal.
The broadcaster says they're still seeking legal advice over that donation.
Leann used the online chatroom service on both charities websites almost everyday.
"I'll never have answers and that's one thing I hate," she said.
"I feel quite angry towards everything because it's affected how I trust the new people coming in to my life."
And Leann isn't alone.
16-year-old Chloe started having problems at school and began worrying about exams, she didn't want to speak to her friends about it.
It was then she turned to Mindfull UK.
Chloe said: "They gave you really good advice, pushed you to speak to people and were always just there on a daily basis if you needed them.
When the service went offline Chloe said it felt like "someone had died".
If you want to talk about bullying, the BBC Advice pages have links to charities which can help.
Several former employees who have contacted Newsbeat say the charity was badly run.
One told us many staff are still waiting to be paid, while another claims the office became increasingly hostile as money problems continued to mount.
It's not clear how many staff are affected, but the 2012 accounts said it employed 44 and had more than 5,000 volunteers.
BeatBullying's founder Emma-Jane Cross and former executives Ross Banford and Sarah Dyer have since set up another company called Digital Impacts.
Banford told Newsbeat: "We would really like to stress that we would never set up any new organisation that would be in direct competition with any BB Group programme.
"We are simply developing a new product and business," he said.
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A judge has criticised the contactless card payment method as making life too easy for criminals.

Recorder Mr David Bartlett said it was "quite ludicrous that the banks have allowed this to happen", after hearing how a card was used by a thief to buy goods soon after being stolen.
Robert Vipond was jailed for 18 months at Exeter Crown Court after admitting fraud and theft offences.
He used the contactless card to buy £23 of tobacco and groceries in Exeter.
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Contactless cards can be used for transactions of up to £30 and do not require the entering of a PIN number or any form of identification.
In sentencing Vipond, Mr Bartlett said: "You can make these contactless payments now. It seems quite ludicrous that banks allow this to happen.
"It seems anyone who steals a card can wave it around until it is reported as stolen."
The court heard the card was taken from a man's bedside table as he slept in his home in Exeter in the early hours of 5 April.
Vipond made the contactless purchase soon afterwards, and also took out cash from bank machines using a PIN number, which had been left on the same table as the wallet.
The offence was one of a spree in which Vipond used two stolen cards to withdraw £250 cash, buy a £1,500 watch and spend £279 of clothes.
He is a heroin addict with 32 previous convictions for theft, and had been released from a four and a half year sentence nine days before the offences.
Vipond, aged 34, of Gissons Lane, Kennford, admitted handling stolen bank cards, theft, and four counts of fraud.


As politicians around Wales try to persuade us to vote for them, reporter Elise Jenkins gives some of the hopefuls, put forward by their party, a quick-fire test.

Still to come - Pippa Bartolotti of the Green Party.


China's economic figures show an economy that's still addicted to stimulus for growth.

Remarkably consistent - those are the words that come to mind when you first look at China's first quarter GDP data.
Yes growth is slowing but we all knew that, and Beijing has been broadcasting that for years now. China must slow in order to make the much-touted economic transition from manufacturing to services.
And so here we have it - almost as if the figures were plucked out of the minds of Beijing's officials themselves: 6.7% for the first quarter, bang in line with market expectations, and also extremely conveniently - what Beijing needs to see in order for full year growth to achieve the stated target of 6.5-7% for this year.
These numbers will definitely give Beijing the credibility to say to the world that although the economy is declining, it is also stabilising, and the slowdown isn't reeling out of control.
But the sceptics among you are sure to ask: In the face of weaker external demand, reduced global trade, and an uncertain economic environment, how did China manage to do this?
Let's drill down on the year-on-year numbers:
Fixed asset investment up 10.7%
New Loan Growth up 25%
Property investment up 6.2%
All these figures show that China is using the tried-and-tested formula of stimulus yet again. This time around China says it is using "targeted stimulus", but it is a path which has led to many of the problems it currently faces.
It says it wants to move away from this model of growth. But structural transition takes time, and is painful, as I've said many times before. And while Beijing has no shortage of patience, this data suggests that perhaps China's leaders are more addicted to stimulus and investment to grow the economy than they're willing to admit.
There's nothing wrong with using stimulus to fuel your economy -  governments from the US to Japan have been doing it for years.
But where is the money coming from? Remember China already has worrying debt levels at its banks, at the corporate level and at the local municipal level too.
There are also social realities to consider; this transition is coming with massive job losses at state-owned enterprises and the last thing Beijing wants is unrest linked to unemployment.
After years of anti-corruption crackdowns, President Xi Jinping is probably also mindful of the political realities within his party - he has a lot riding on making sure the slowdown is managed successfully.


X Factor presenter Dermot O'Leary has praised Nicole Scherzinger as "the best judge" on this year's panel.

The new series launches this weekend on ITV with a revamped line-up.
Speaking at the show's London press launch, O'Leary said: "She works the hardest."
Scherzinger said: "I'm very competitive, very picky, I really care. Otherwise, if you don't put everything into it and everything isn't as great as it can be, why do it?"
This year's series has had an overhaul, with O'Leary returning to present after a year off and all three of the original judges returning.
Louis Walsh, Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne were on the judging panel on the show during its first series in 2004.
Former Pussycat Dolls singer Scherzinger is set to join them, returning after her two previous stints as a judge on The X Factor UK, and one in the US.
"I'm actually here because of Louis, he's the one who wanted me back," she said, crediting her fellow judge with championing her to Cowell.
Walsh said: "Nicole works really hard, takes it seriously... she wants, more than anybody else, to win again."
But her return to the panel was not without controversy.
Scherzinger had been expected to continue working with Andrew Lloyd Webber in a stage production of Cats.
She played the role of Grizabella when the show was in London's West End last year, and had been rumoured to continue in the role this year when the show opened on Broadway.
But Lord Lloyd-Webber said she dropped out of continuing in the role to do X Factor instead, leaving him "furious".
Speaking at the London launch, Scherzinger suggested they had left that behind them and are now on good terms.
"I know he and [his wife] Madeleine always watch the show so hopefully they still will, and I did a show in Austria with him recently so it was all good.
"I can't wait to work with him again... but Simon's loving it," she added, referring to the apparent feud.
And Scherzinger isn't the only person who Louis helped get on to this year's X Factor.
Former contestant Rylan Clark-Neal will host sister show the Xtra Factor on ITV2 this year, alongside Radio 1 presenter Matt Edmondson.
"Louis did get me the job... he bullied Simon for about three years," Clark-Neal said.
Walsh explained: "Simon doesn't know Rylan as well as we do because he wasn't there that year [when Clark-Neal was a contestant].
"But Nicole, Sharon and I worked with him on the show - we know how good and quick and intelligent he is."
Last year's X Factor was the least successful in the ratings since the first series in 2004 - something that many fans and critics put down to the panel being too young and lacking chemistry.
Walsh himself said that "the show wasn't really good last year" - adding that he lobbied Cowell to make changes to this year's show.
All eyes now will be on the ratings to see whether fans return to see three of the original panel back together.
Audiences have been falling since The X Factor's 2010 peak, when more than 17m people tuned into the final to see Matt Cardle crowned the winner.
But fast forward to 2015 - and an average of 8.4m watched the final, meaning the show lost about half its audience since 2010.
Speaking to the BBC about last year's series, Walsh said: "I was checking the ratings every week and saw it was getting lower.
"I was delighted. I watched the show and I didn't think it was as good as it used to be."
By bringing back so many familiar faces, Cowell clearly hopes The X Factor can recapture its former glory.
But it will face stiff competition for much of it run from Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One, which has been firmly ahead in the ratings in recent years.
Strictly is once again putting up a strong batch of contestants - with Ed Balls, Louise Redknapp and Greg Rutherford among this year's celebrities.
The X Factor may be pulling out all the stops in the hope of securing more series in the future, but it is going to have a tough fight on its hands.
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There is public anger in Singapore over what is seen as a too lenient sentence for a US child sex offender.

US Mixed Martial Arts instructor Joshua Robinson, 39, was jailed for four years last week for having sex with two teenage girls and filming the acts.
Officers also seized thousands of illegal pornographic films from his flat, including 321 featuring children, the largest haul ever in Singapore.
A petition was launched calling the sentence "absolutely intolerable".
For each charge of having sex with a minor, Robinson could have been jailed in Singapore for up to 10 years and fined.
But on Wednesday, Singapore's Public Prosecutor said it would not be appealing for a harsher sentence. It said the two 15-year-old victims had "consented to the sexual acts", meaning the sentence was appropriate.
Specialising in the art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Robinson had been living in Singapore for about six years.
He was well-known in the MMA community, and had previously been chosen to appear in a state campaign for Contact Singapore, a local employment body promoting expat talent.
The court heard that he had met one of the teenagers on a dating app in early 2015. After months of exchanging messages, they met up in person and he brought her back to his apartment where he filmed them having intercourse.
Unaware of the video, the girl then informed her parents about the assault and they lodged a police report.
Robinson was arrested in June 2015. A police raid uncovered thousands of obscene movies as well as a folder of saved films, including one of him engaging in sexual intercourse with another 15-year-old girl he had met two years before.
He later pleaded guilty to nine charges; they included three counts of having sex with a minor under sixteen and one for showing an obscene film to a six-year-old girl, which he did while out on bail.
He was given a total of four years in prison.
Singapore's crime rate is among the lowest in the world, and its judicial system one of the toughest. Lengthy jail terms and canings are common.
So public anger erupted in the media and online, as Robinson was seen as having got off lightly. Some asked whether a foreigner had been allowed to escape a harsher punishment.
More than 27,000 people have signed a petition calling for a revision of the sentencing.
"This is totally absurd," said Singaporean Michael Liew Khong in a post comment on state broadcaster Channel NewsAsia's Facebook page. "A four year sentence for a paedophile? What kind of laws do we have here? It's never about the nationality but the seriousness of the crime."
Other Facebook users like Chiaming Cho agreed. "This isn't an issue about locals versus foreigners. This is about a tough enough sentence to deter would-be offenders for a crime that may have lasting effects of a lifetime."
Edwin Yeo highlighted the amount of videos featuring children found in Robinson's possession. "This is taken more seriously in other nations. Why isn't our justice system looking at that? Robinson will probably be out in two years for good behaviour. This is infuriating."
The lack of corporal punishment was also called into question by some netizens.
"I do not understand why there isn't any caning being meted out in the sentencing," said Mag Kan. "Caning has always been part of sexual assault sentencing. Why is he being exempted from that?"
In its statement on Wednesday, the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) acknowledged public unhappiness but said the four-year sentence was "broadly in line with relevant sentencing precedents" and that by pleading guilty, the victims had been spared having to testify.
It stressed Robinson had been convicted of neither sexual assault nor statutory rape, as the girls were above the age of 14 and had consented. "Caning is not provided for any of the offences Robinson was charged with," it said.
The AGC said it did "not differentiate between Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans", but that it would be discussing with government "whether the relevant legislation should be reviewed to enhance sentencing for some of the offences".


Hamilton Academical have signed Curaçao international midfielder Kemy Agustien until the end of the season.

The 29-year-old will be a substitute for the Premiership match against Partick Thistle.
Agustien has English Premier League experience with Swansea City, for whom he played between 2010 and 2013.
He has also played for Crystal Palace and Brighton, but was most recently with Vendsyssel in Denmark.


They waited and they waited in the big tent adorned with chandeliers and fairy lights as the temperature gradually rose.

They have been waiting a while for peace in South Sudan, so weren't surprised to wait a few hours more for the nitty-gritty of an agreement to be ironed out before the show began.
The leader rarely photographed without his broad-rimmed trilby hat entered the tent with much acclaim, and finally put his name to South Sudan's latest hope for peace.
On the stage, five flags wafted in the breeze of a dozen fans. It was the combined weight of those flags which forced both leaders into submission.
Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan have been instrumental in bringing the two sides to the table.
And the people of South Sudan are sick of war.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir had been given 15 days to sign on the dotted line after his rival, the vice-president turned rebel leader Riek Machar, agreed to terms set by an international panel of mediators last week.
A brass band dressed in red with a lavish gold trim added to the pomp and ceremony.
Each visiting head of state gave their comments in turn.
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya hinted that the long day's discussions leading up to the ceremony had been hard, saying there's no such thing as "a perfect agreement", but it is better to find a solution around a table rather than on a battlefield.
"Don't see the obstacles," he said, "but the opportunity and hope."
The elder statesman, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, rebuked President Kiir, calling the fighting in South Sudan "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time".
Up until the last minute it wasn't even certain if President Kiir was definitely going to sign, with his "registration of serious reservations."
He even handed out photocopies of his list of reservations - and they weren't small points, but major differences.
He made a theatrical point of initialling a copy on every page - and unsuccessfully urging the other heads of state to do likewise - before finally putting ink to paper on the aptly called Compromise Peace Agreement.
But the question is not just whether the two leaders can even agree on a proper, long-lasting peace deal, but whether those fighting in the bush will take the cue.
At least with President Kiir's signature now on the peace accord there's more chance of an end to the fighting.
But don't expect the 200,000 people currently sheltering in UN camps to be heading home just yet.
There are still sporadic clashes, and with renegade generals splitting their troops from the rebel side and going it alone, it's hard to judge how successful a ceasefire might be.
The UN Security Council threatened "immediate action" if their members were left at the altar yet again.
America's draft resolution included targeted sanctions and an arms embargo.
A UN panel of experts said the free flow of weapons to both sides and the tens of millions of government dollars being spent on arms and ammunition were fuelling the war.
They also highlighted an increasing brutality towards civilians as rebel supporters were being cleared out of the countryside.
The statistics are horrifying - 1.6 million people have been displaced from their homes, 70% of the population are short of food including a quarter of a million severely malnourished children, and parts of the country have been cut off by fighting where aid workers can't go.
Twenty months into this crisis the reports of human rights abuses keep coming - child soldiers; rape as a weapon of war; ethnic-based killing; people being trapped in huts and burned alive.
There have been atrocities carried out by both sides, as the clashing of two political heavyweights and leaders of the country's two largest ethnic groups, sparked terrible violence.
There are parts of Unity state in the north of the country where aid agencies haven't been able to go, and where conditions are thought to be dire.
The complex historical differences between and within ethnic groups and clans will be hard to unravel.
And what the generals who have not signed up to peace decide to do with their thousands of troops will have a big impact on whether this really means peace.
The text of the agreement will be full of the loopholes and conditions necessary to bring the two sides together, but is unlikely to be a long-term solution.
The signing of the deal is just one small step in a long process towards peace and reconciliation - and there have been many steps this way which have faltered before.


Retired Royal Marines have commemorated the anniversary of the 1918 Zeebrugge Raid at a service on Merseyside.

Mersey Ferries played a key role in the World War One action - the original Daffodil and Iris ferries acted as landing crafts and tug boats.
Both ferries came under heavy fire but they returned to Merseyside battered yet still intact.
A service was held at Seacombe Ferry Terminal and onboard the Royal Daffodil.
The ferries were awarded the title Royal by King George as a result of their role.
Neil Scales, chief executive of Merseytravel, said: "We should never forget those who lost their lives at Zeebrugge nor the bravery of the crews of our own ferries who took part.
"It was an action that saw vicious hand to hand fighting, incredible heroism and the award of 200 medals for gallantry, including eight Victoria Crosses.
"The Mersey Ferries and the Royal Marines forged an historic link at Zeebrugge that should never be forgotten."
Former Royal Marines who died in the past year were also remembered during the service. Floral tributes and the ashes of those who had died were cast into the Mersey.


An unusual new species of dinosaur, unearthed from the deserts of Utah, has been described by scientists.

The 5m-long (15ft) beast is a member of the triceratops family, but with a huge nose and exceptionally long horns, palaeontologists say it is unlike anything they have seen before.
It has been named accordingly as Nasutoceratops titusi, which means big-nose, horn-face.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Dr Mark Loewen, from the University of Utah and Natural History Museum of Utah, told BBC News:  "This dinosaur just completely blew us away.
"We would never have predicted it would look like this - it is just so outside of the norm for this group of dinosaurs."
Fearsome vegetarian?
The creature was first discovered in 2006 the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument area of Utah.
However, it has taken several years to prepare and then study the fossil in detail.
The rocks it was found in date to about 75-million-years old, so the beast would have roamed the Earth during the Late Cretaceous period.
"The horns are by far the absolute largest of any member of its group of dinosaurs - they curve sideways and forwards," explained Dr Loewen.
"In addition it has the biggest nose of its group too."
He added that it also had a scalloped frill at the back of its head.
Nasutoceratops was also hefty, weighing about 2.5 tonnes, and with its unusual looks it would have cut a fearsome figure.
However this species, like all members of the triceratops family is a herbivore. It would have been more concerned with feasting on plants in its tropical, swampy surrounds than terrorising other dinosaurs.
'Treasure trove'
Nasutoceratops is one of a number of species that have been discovered in this area of North America.
The desert where it was found would have once formed part of a continent called Laramidia, which has been described as a treasure trove for fossils.
Other plant-eating species, including two other kinds of horned dinosaurs and duck-billed hadrosaurs, were found close to Nasutoceratops titusi, suggesting that the creatures were able to co-exist.
Dr Loewen said: "All of these animals are upwards of three tonnes... You have an environment where you have all of these large herbivores competing for food.
"We aren't really sure how you can support all of these animals, but you do find them all in the rock at the same time."
He added that other unusual new species were also emerging from the site.


Tesco has changed a job advert looking for permanent workers in exchange for expenses and jobseeker's allowance.

The advert for night shift staff at its Bury St Edmunds store in Suffolk appeared on the Jobseekers' Plus website.
Tesco changed the advert after it was highlighted by Facebook and Twitter users, saying it had been a "mistake".
The job was offered under the government's "workfare scheme", which is linked to payment of benefits.
Tesco said the impression that it was seeking to replace full-time workers was also mistaken.
The error comes after unions called for high street chains to withdraw from government programmes that require the unemployed to work for up to six months or face losing their benefits.
In a statement, Tesco said: "The advert is a mistake caused by an IT error by Jobcentre Plus and is being rectified.
"It is an advert for work experience with a guaranteed job interview at the end of it as part of a Government-led work experience scheme.
"We take our responsibility as Britain's biggest private sector employer seriously."
The company defended its involvement in the scheme, saying that such work experience could be valuable.
So far, 300 young people have gone on to get permanent employment after a placement, the statement added.
Such placements were not "a replacement or substitute for our permanent staff".
"In general, Tesco staff receive a higher level of basic pay than any other supermarket, without exception," the firm added.
Shopworkers' union Usdaw, which represents more than 400,000 workers in high street stores, said it was in discussions with major retailers about their involvement, saying that while work experience could be valuable, schemes should be voluntary and pay the going rate.
Sainsbury's and the Waterstones book chain have already withdrawn from the scheme.
Employment minister Chris Grayling told the Commons last month the scheme was working well and was much better value for money for the taxpayer than the last Labour government's Future Jobs Fund.
Jobseekers' allowance is currently paid at Â£53.45 per week for under-25s and Â£67.50 for over-25s.


A growing band of hacktivists is helping Islamic State spread its message by attacking media organisations and websites, a security company suggests.

Supporters of IS were helping it with opportunistic attacks and more sophisticated operations, said FireEye.
French TV station TV5 Monde was a high-profile victim early this year, but attackers have hit other media groups.
FireEye said the wide range of targets made it hard to say who was at risk.
"There's a lot of people that go to Syria fight for IS but another way to fight is to stay home and do it from there," said David Merkel, chief technology officer at FireEye.
"If you have an internet connection and have some skill levels you can definitely contribute."
Mr Merkel said IS was known for using cyber-attack tools in conflict zones to gather intelligence about enemy forces.
However, he said, there was also growing evidence that people dotted around the world were working on behalf of IS to carry out cyber-attacks and spread propaganda.
Attributing these attacks directly to IS was hard, he said, but there was no doubt they were being carried out in its name.
FireEye said it had seen IS-inspired attacks on small companies and the social-media accounts of US TV stations and other news outlets around the world.
The attack that knocked French TV station TV5 Monde off air for a few hours had clearly been carried out by sympathisers rather than IS, said Mr Merkel.
The fact that official social-media communications from the militant group had taken several hours to acknowledge the attack showed it was not centrally organised, he said.
In addition, many websites have been defaced with pro-IS videos and messages by hackers who back the group's aims.
This lack of connection between attacks and the IS hierarchy made it difficult to predict where they would strike next and what they were after, said Mr Merkel.
Rick Howard, chief technology officer at security company Palo Alto Networks, said the attacks it saw carried out on behalf of militant groups filled a broad range.
Many of the attacks were simply opportunistic and took advantage of mistakes made when sites were first set up, he said.
Others were more sophisticated and sought to grab intelligence and lurk inside networks for a long time.
"They  combine elements of both criminal and state-sponsored groups," he said.
"They want public exposure for what they are doing, but they also need legitimate skills to cause damage."
However, he said, it was also necessary to draw a distinction between the people carrying out cyber-attacks on behalf of groups such as IS and those who carried a gun.
"There's a difference between being a terrorist and a propagandist," he said.


A solar-powered plane has landed safely in Japan after being forced to stop its flight across the Pacific Ocean because of bad weather.

Poor weather conditions forced the Solar Impulse craft to head back to Nagoya, Japan, to land.
The aircraft, which set off from China on Saturday, had hoped to reach Hawaii by the end of the week.
Pilot Andre Borschberg will now wait in Japan for better weather before attempting to continue .
The plane will now be tied down and protected from the weather in a hangar, which is a large warehouse where airplanes are kept, while experts look for a new opportunity to cross the Pacific.
Solar Impulse is attempting to make the first journey around the globe by an aeroplane powered only by the sun.
LEG 1: 9 March. Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Muscat (Oman) - 441km; in 13 hours and 1 minute
LEG 2: 10 March. Muscat (Oman) to Ahmedabad (India) - 1,468km; in 15 hours and 20 minutes
LEG 3: 18 March. Ahmedabad (India) to Varanasi (India) - 1,215km; in 13 hours and 15 minutes
LEG 4: 19 March. Varanasi (India) to Mandalay (Myanmar) - 1,398km; in 13 hours and 29 minutes
LEG 5: 29 March. Mandalay (Myanmar) to Chongqing (China) - 1,459km; in 20 hours and 29 minutes
LEG 6: 21 April. Chongqing (China) to Nanjing China - 1,241km; in 17 hours and 22 minutes
LEG 7: 31 May. Nanjing (China) to Kalaeloa, Hawaii (USA) - 8,200km; journey aborted, plane diverted to Nagoya, Japan


Two sheep farmers have started using smartphones to monitor and record their flocks.

A new mobile phone app allows them to record everything from the weight of a lamb to the medicines it is being given, all without leaving the fields.
The Welsh government-funded TAG project also works out when sheep are ready for market.
Huw and Guto Jones, who farm at Mallwyd, Gwynedd, and Llandre, Ceredigion, said it saves them time.
The brothers now carry detailed information about their 1,300 flock of sheep in their hand while shepherding in the fields.
"This new technology is a breath of fresh air," said Huw Jones. "It has made the recording of sheep and lambs' details so much easier and quicker.
"If a problem arises in the field with a lame ewe or a sick lamb, we can search for an ear tag number on the phone and find their medical history.
"The other advantage we've seen is that we can register and read EID (electronic identification) tags for our 800 Welsh mountain sheep at Talyglannau, and do exactly the same with the LlÅ·n flock of sheep we have on our second farm Elgar in Llandre, Bow Street, even though we have no broadband connection there."
Hear more on Country Focus, BBC Radio Wales, Sunday 13 September at 07:00 BST.


Solihull Moors have signed experienced midfielder Darren Carter following his departure from promoted Forest Green.

The 33-year-old former Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion and Preston midfielder, who made 368 Football League career appearances, becomes Solihull's sixth signing of the summer.
The Moors have so far signed three strikers, Shomari Barnwell, as well as Luke Benbow and Chris Lait.
They also signed utility player Jack Edwards and full-back Kalern Thomas.
Boyhood Birmingham City fan Carter has made 392 league and cup appearances in his career, with the former Sunderland and Millwall loanee playing in four of English football's top five tiers.
He played for Birmingham and Albion in both the Premier League and the Championship, and has more recently been in League Two with Cheltenham and Northampton.
Last season Carter played in the National League with Forest Green, helping them gain promotion to the fourth tier, but he has never played in League One.
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The Scottish government's independent adviser on poverty has denied being put under pressure to water down a key report.

The report by Naomi Eisenstadt set out 15 recommendations for what more could be done to tackle poverty.
An early draft of the document warned about the potential impact of cuts to local government funding.
But the section was deleted, and did not appear in the final version that was published last year.
Changes were also made to sections covering the impact of the council tax freeze and universal benefits such as free bus travel and fuel allowances for older people.
Two draft versions of the poverty report were given to The Times newspaper under freedom of information rules, and have now been obtained by BBC Scotland.
She told the The Times that she had "certainly" agreed to change a heading that read "end the council tax freeze" to one that said "be bold on local tax reform".
But she said she could not remember whether she had been asked to change anything else.
Ms Eisenstadt acknowledged to BBC Scotland that there was a "perception" that her independence had been compromised.
She added: "Personally I don't feel that, because had I felt that during the production of the report I would have walked away - I would have just resigned."
The Scottish government said Ms Eisenstadt had "robustly" held it to account.
The documents show that Ms Eisenstadt had initially written that the SNP's council tax freeze policy "is not an anti-poverty measure", which was later changed to "is no longer an anti-poverty measure" in a second draft before being removed from the final report.
A line stating that the council tax freeze "should end" was changed to a call for the Scottish government to "consider ending the council tax freeze".
A further section on the impact of cuts to local government funding was deleted entirely.
It had initially read: "The Scottish government needs to monitor carefully the impact of reductions in local authority funding, and consider with great care how the Spending Review later in the year can support local authorities to keep prioritising so-called 'pro-poor services - those largely used by those on low incomes."
Ms Eisenstadt, who was appointed in June 2015, met First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in November of the same year to discuss her progress.
She said she believed that "working constructively with government and trying to make change is the right way to go".
She added: "I don't think that my independence was compromised, and looking at the recommendations I feel really proud of how much is being done based on the report.
"So the real test is are they doing what I said they should do? The answer to that is: most of it, yes."
When asked whether people should be concerned about the changes to the report, she replied: "I don't think so because you have to look at what is still there and how much is happening, and the truth is there have been reforms to the council tax.
"Now I don't know if that would have happened anyway, but at least there is movement in the direction that I was hoping it would be.
"By working alongside (the government), it doesn't compromise your independence - what it does is you develop each other's thinking, you learn from each other, and I had to learn a lot about what the Scottish context was."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said Ms Eisenstadt had made clear that the recommendations in her report were hers alone.
The spokeswoman added: "The recommendation to end the council tax freeze is included in both the two draft reports and the final report.
"The Scottish government announced its plans to end the council tax freeze in March 2016, two months after the publication of the adviser's report.
"The text of all drafts and the final report is the responsibility of the independent adviser."
Scottish Labour has accused the Scottish government of "whitewashing" the poverty report.
But its attempt to ask an emergency question on Ms Eisenstadt's report at Holyrood was turned down by presiding officer Ken Macintosh.


Luton Town manager Nathan Jones hopes to recruit former Nottingham Forest boss Paul Hart to work alongside him at Kenilworth Road.

Hart, 62, became Leeds academy director last September, but left the Elland Road club earlier this month.
"He's someone I would love to bring to the club for lots of reasons," Jones told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"I've always gone to him for advice and I always wanted to work with him again. He's someone I respect highly."
Hart previously worked with Jones at Charlton Athletic.
"Probably one of my best years in football was with him at Charlton," Jones continued.
"He's been a bit of a mentor for me. If there's a possibility that we can do something then that would be a really good addition to our team."


Two men and a woman have been injured after a shotgun was fired at a living room on Boxing Day.

Five people, including a four-year-old boy, were inside the house in Harefield Road, Speke, Liverpool, at about 19:35 GMT, the time of the shooting.
A 22-year-old man was injured in his torso by a "shotgun discharge" fired through the window, police said.
A woman, aged 21, and another man, 29, were hurt by the glass. Police said the property was "mistakenly targeted".
The woman, who suffered facial injuries, and the 29-year-old, who was grazed on the arm, have been discharged from hospital.
The 22-year-old was left with pellet wounds in his torso and remains in hospital.
Police believe the shooters left the scene in a stolen black Volvo that was found burnt out less than a mile away in Rycot Road at about 04:50.
Officers have spoken to witnesses and CCTV footage is being sought.
Supt Matt Boyle said: "Three people received injuries as a result of this attack, but it could so easily have been more and among those inside the house, but thankfully unhurt, was a four-year-old boy.
"I am sure the community will share our shock and distress at the fact that people could be shot as they sit in a living room."


A plaque is to be erected in Northern Ireland to honour a Strabane astronomer who has a crater on the moon named after her.

Annie Maunder worked alongside her husband, Edward Walter Maunder, at the end of the 19th Century.
They recorded dark spots that pepper the sun and their name is still well known in scientific circles today.
Derry City and Strabane District Council granted funding for a plaque on Monday.
More on Annie Maunder and other female pioneers of science:
Annie Maunder went on many scientific expeditions to observe eclipses around the turn of the century, often as the only woman.
She travelled to Lapland, India, Algiers, Mauritius and Labrador.
She even designed her own camera to take spectacular pictures of the Sun, including the first photograph ever of streamers from the Sun's outer layer, or corona.
In 1892, the names of Annie Russell, her maiden name, and fellow Greenwich astronomer Alice Everett were put forward to become fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society.
However, they failed to gain enough of the popular vote in a secret ballot and were rejected.
Leo Enright, a space expert, told BBC Radio Foyle: "Annie deserves this recognition.
"Her and Alice Everett blazed a light across the sky in the late 1800s as astronomers. They explored the night sky and developed a lot of important theories.
"A lot of her work is important for climate change today.
"Even though she went to Cambridge they wouldn't give her a degree. Women didn't get degrees and there was a lot of frustration in that time period.
"It was a big moment when a crater was named after her."
Mrs Maunder married Edward Walter Maunder in 1895.
In a separate development, four other plaques will also be erected by the Ulster History Circle over the next five years.
They include: Irish poet Francis Ledwidge, EH Doherty, founder of the Féis Dhoíre Cholmcílle , Brigadier General Ambrose Ricardo who co-founded the Londonderry Féis and teacher and composer Dorothy Parke.


Tourists see the resorts of the Cote d'Azur as a paradise, but the Bastille Day attack in Nice has left residents nervous about security.

"Keep hold of my hand!" shouts a harassed man at his little daughter as she runs enthusiastically towards the kaleidoscope of colours exploding in the sky over Frejus port, trailing a toy rabbit by its ears.
"What did I tell you about holding Daddy's hand at the fireworks?" He sees me looking at him, and shakes his head.
"You can't help being nervous, you know?" he says. "In crowds like this, even with the police presence, you can't help thinking..."
There is a reasonably healthy turnout at the port for the firework display, but everyone is a little on edge.
The National Front (FN) Mayor of Frejus, David Rachline has upped security spending since the Nice attack - concrete bollards block vehicles from entering certain public areas, there are extra officers patrolling the streets, there are more CCTV cameras.
"There are even soldiers on some of the beaches," says one man pushing his toddler in a buggy.
"That is a first, and it is startling."
Nice is only 65km (40 miles) from the quaint little town of Frejus, and the impact of the 14 July attack there is very much being felt along the entire length of this seaside stretch of France.
"For the first time in my life, I'm going to vote Front National," one local man tells me as he waits on some steps for family members to catch him up after the fireworks.
"We've been attacked too many times now, and I think the FN is the only solution, extreme though it is, unfortunately.
"No other party is tough enough with Islamist extremists."
The geographical position of the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region, facing North Africa just across the Mediterranean, has made it a natural far-right stronghold.
A large proportion of the white population is descended from the "pieds noirs", the French colonists expelled from Algeria in the early 1960s who arrived in France with a "fear of Arabs", says Nonna Meyer, of Sciences-Po, formerly Paris Institute of Political Studies.
And since the attack in Nice, there has been an increase in the number of people looking at the FN websites and signing up as party members.
"Terrorist attacks," Ms Meyer says, "are very good for a party like the FN and for its leader, Marine le Pen.
"She has been saying for years that we have too many refugees, too many immigrants and she has been linking them to Islamist fundamentalism and saying they are a reservoir for potential attacks.
"So, now, she says, 'The right was in office, the left was in office, and what did they do? Nothing. Come to us. It is time to try the FN.'"
On his wide desk, in his large office, the young FN Mayor and senator, Mr Rachline, has a poster of and a book about Johnny Hallyday.
It was a real coup for Mr Rachline to persuade France's ageing but incredibly popular rocker to play a gig at his little seaside town last month - not least because Hallyday has long been a close supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy, party leader of the right-wing Republicans.
"Of course, we have had a little drop in tourism this season," Mr Rachline tells me, as we settle into leather chairs and I mention that some of the beaches along the coast do not seem as packed as usual in high summer.
"But then nearly 300 French citizens have been killed in just a few months.
"Naturally, we have seen a lot more interest in the FN locally because of the security fears.
"OK, I have stepped up some measures here in Frejus, but it is up to the state to introduce proper security measures, like clamping down on Salafism and closing radical mosques.
"But the interior minister is just letting it all happen - he is not doing his job.
!We need to hit this problem at its base - the great tide of immigrants and refugees - that is the real problem."
I remind him that those responsible for the recent attacks in France were French.
"French on paper," he replies. "And perhaps today we are offering nationality to those who do not deserve it."
On a bench in front of Mr Rachline's town hall, four Muslim women sit watching me work. They can guess why I am here.
"Just because we are Muslims, it does not mean we are not crying with you, crying with the French," one head-scarfed older lady tells me sadly.
"The people who commit these crimes are monsters, not Muslims.
"But you know, dear," she says, catching my hand, "everyone of us must do his best to carry on living through these times."
She nods to the restaurant-heavy square in front of us, where little children twirl and dance in front of the live band.
"You go now and have a lovely evening."
The band's singer seems uncertain as to how he might best please his audience and flits frenetically between crooning French chanson numbers and lively American pop.
The right-wing Republicans (LR) have a similar dilemma in finding an appealing voice to present at next year's presidential elections.
In 2007, moving further to the right and focusing on security issues hot on the heels of the 2005 riots won Mr Sarkozy the election.
But a similar approach this time could see the LR simply drowned out by the stronger voice of the FN.
And few people like the cover track as much as the original.
"It's true that the FN is gaining ground a little here - but it's not true that Nicolas Sarkozy imitates the Front National, we have concrete proposals," says Jeremy Campofranco, who leads the young Republicans group in the Var region.
"Security is a problem for all of us, and we can't just let that subject belong to the FN."
This November, the LR will be holding primaries to choose its presidential candidate.
The two frontrunners are the pugilistic Mr Sarkozy and the former French Prime Minister and more harmonising figure Alain Juppe, whose popularity extends beyond the right.
Mr Campofranco will not say which candidate he will be backing but warns that whoever the winner is, everyone will need to unite behind him.
"So that we don't leave the door open to the extreme right," he says, raising his eyebrows at me and smiling wryly.
The seaside borders of Frejus bleed into neighbouring St Raphael, and it is from there I board a boat to St Tropez - that cosmopolitan, glitzy playground of the rich and famous where, nonetheless, 48% of the town voted FN in last December's regional elections.
I turn when I hear a local family seated behind me discussing politics.
Mrs Melchior tells me she will happily vote for Ms Le Pen because it is time someone was tougher on crime.
"She will not be able to do everything she wants, like closing the borders or leaving the euro," she says, waving her hand dismissively.
"But when she is elected, she will give us a safer life."
The younger members of the family begin to argue.
One family member admits he is also tempted to vote FN for the first time, in the wake of the attacks.
And a female family member scowls at him.
"Security is the most important thing now," she tells him.
"But we should not vote for a president just thinking about security."
Back in Paris, Prof Meyer remains convinced the FN is only a first-round party and that if, as is now expected, Ms Le Pen should be in the second round of the presidential elections, a cross-party alliance will form to block her from taking the Elysee.
"But in politics we have to be careful," she says.
"If you look at what happens in the aftermath of attacks, it is fear and anger.
"And if there are more attacks, we do not know what will happen."
You can hear Emma Jane Kirby's report for the PM programme on the BBC Radio 4 website.


Police Scotland have confirmed that dozens of police station front counters are to close from 3 March.

Only a handful of more that 60 stations marked to shut public counters or cut hours have been given a reprieve.
The controversial plans were put to consultation in October. The public can still request a meeting with an officer on the 101 non-emergency number.
Confirmation of the move comes a week after approval to cut the number of police and fire control rooms.
The opening times of public counters at police stations across Scotland now fall into five categories and the list of affected stations remains largely the same as one proposed in the original consultation.
Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mawson said: "Local policing remains the bedrock of the new service.
"The benefits of a single service are already being felt right across the country - with national specialist resource now meaning our local community team resource is further strengthened and supported.
"We have listened to all the views put forward and made changes to reflect this but an effective, modern policing service must evolve to reflect the communities we serve."
As a result of the closures members of the public will still be able to meet with police officers at stations with no public counter provision but will have to call 101 first.
The amendments to the orignal proposals are:
The reforms have been widely criticised by all of the main opposition political parties in Scotland.
Scottish Labour's Graeme Pearson said: "This announcement will be a bitter blow for the 61 communities which will now no longer have easy, face-to-face contact with their local police officers.
"I'm pleased that through our campaigning and the campaigning of many others, we've managed to save at least some from total closure."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats echoed Labour's concerns and said the news confirmed the party's "worst fears".
Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said: "It is deeply disappointing that around 60 frontline police stations across Scotland are to close their doors to the public.
"In the space of less than one year [Justice Secretary] Kenny MacAskill has taken a wrecking ball to local justice."
Scottish Conservative chief whip John Lamont branded the consultation process a "PR exercise" to prepare the public for the level of the cuts.
"As everyone suspected, the consultation exercise was merely Police Scotland going through the motions," he said. "No matter what anyone said, these service counters were closing."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "The review of public counters was undertaken by Police Scotland which was established following wide Scottish Parliament support for the new single service.
"After listening and taking account of public opinion, consultation responses and staff, police are increasing services at Stromness, Banchory, Dumbarton, South Queensferry and Linlithgow.
"Under the review, 71% of counters will remain open to the public with some increasing their hours."


Promotion-chasing National League side Forest Green Rovers have signed former Yeovil striker Kieffer Moore on his return to English football from Norway.

The 23-year-old, who is contracted until the summer of 2017, was released by Yeovil following the club's relegation to League Two last season.
He then moved to Norwegian top-flight side Viking FK, but ended his stay in December.
"My main objective here is to get promoted," Moore said.
"It's a great club and I can't wait to get started."
Forest Green sit second in the National League and host Braintree on Saturday.


An independent Texas-based company has bought the oil refinery at Pembroke in a £447m deal.

It is hoped the deal with a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation will secure the refinery's future.
The refinery employs 1,400 people and is said to be worth about £1.5m a week to Pembrokeshire's local economy.
"Today marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter in Valero's history," said chairman, CEO and president Bill Klesse.
"We welcome everyone at Pembroke to the Valero family."
Valero has acquired the refinery from Chevron, as well as the marketing and logistics assets and was "funded from available cash".
The Pembroke plant is said to be one of Europe's largest and most complex refineries, with a total capacity of 270,000 barrels per day.
Valero now has 15 refineries, managing 2.9 million barrels of throughput capacity overall.
Valero also purchased ownership interests in four major pipelines and 11 fuel terminals, acquired a 14,000 barrel per day aviation fuels business, and a network of more than 1,000 Texaco-branded service stations in the UK and Ireland.
The Chevron plant had been on the market for a year, and Valero said in March it agreed to pay $730m (£456m) for the refinery and $1b (£625m) for the assets.


The haze is back across areas of South East Asia.

The air pollution is caused by the burning of forests and peat land in Indonesia so it can be used for growing crops, mostly lucrative palm oil.
An annual feature of life in Indonesia's neighbouring countries, it has been blamed for deaths and illness.
Indonesia, which has declared a state of emergency in six provinces, has repeatedly said it is cracking down on the slash-and-burn activities.
But the issue is a constant source of diplomatic tension, with Jakarta accused by Singapore and Malaysia of not doing enough to tackle it.
A mild smoky smell has been in the air here for a few days, but throughout Friday, the view from our office window grew worse and worse.
Air pollution is officially measured in Singapore Pollutant Standards Index (PSI). Anything over 100 is considered unhealthy. Though the 24-hour average so far on Friday was only slightly over that, the three-hour reading at 14:00 local time was 215.
You can smell it inside buildings, it lingers in your hair and clothes and it makes your eyes itch.
There will no doubt be people cancelling their outdoor plans for the weekend and stocking up on face masks, but there's a way to go before Singapore hits the peak of last year's haze, one of the worst ever.
At times back then, the PSI reading was above 300. You could barely see the other side of the road and venturing out without a face mask was almost unthinkable.
Every year Indonesia sees agricultural fires across Sumatra, and in parts of Kalimantan on Borneo island. About 100 "hotspots" were detected on Friday.
The fires are said to be caused by corporations as well as small-scale farmers using slash-and-burn to clear vegetation for palm oil, pulp and paper plantations.
Once lit, the fires often spin out of control and spread into protected forested areas and peat.  A peat fire is difficult to put out as it can burn underground for months, and requires a lot of water to extinguish.
At its largest the annual haze measures hundreds of kilometres across. It spreads to Malaysia, Singapore, the south of Thailand and the Philippines, causing a significant deterioration in air quality.
The problem has accelerated in recent years as more land has been cleared for expanding plantations for the lucrative palm oil trade.
Indonesia says it has arrested 450 people so far this year in connection with fires, including some linked to companies.
President Joko Widodo has ordered extra resourcing for monitoring and fire-fighting efforts, but told the BBC last year it would take at least three years for the results to be seen.
Besides irritating the respiratory tract and the eyes, the pollutants can cause serious long-term damage to health.
The indices used to measure air quality in the region usually measure particulate matter (PM10), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone.
PM2.5 can enter deeper into the lungs. It has been associated with causing respiratory illnesses and lung damage.
As much as Singapore complains about poor air quality, in parts of Indonesia the haze can last for months and be deadly.


A driver who claimed his excessive speed during a police chase was due to his dog sitting on the accelerator pedal has been jailed for 13 months.

Jordan Winn drove at almost 100mph in a 30mph zone during the pursuit in County Durham in October last year.
The 23-year-old, from Murray Park, Stanley, admitted dangerous driving.
But during mitigation at Durham Crown Court he claimed his Staffordshire bull terrier, Buster, had become stuck in the footwell of his Volvo.
Judge Christopher Prince described as "ludicrous" Winn's claims that the dog made the car speed by sitting on the accelerator pedal, and then moved to the brake, causing it to swerve to avoid another vehicle.
The court heard that an officer spotted Winn driving at speed in Chester-le-Street before pursuing him.
CCTV footage showed the police car travelling at 88mph in an attempt to keep up with Winn as he drove at close to 100mph.
At one point, Winn's Volvo was seen to brake hard, and turn, just missing an oncoming vehicle.
When he eventually stopped and got out of his car, the bull terrier also leaped out.
Following his arrest Winn pinned the blame for his excessive speed on Buster.
Winn claimed the car accelerated and braked "because the dog's backside was on the pedals of the vehicle", Judge Prince said.
He added: "You advanced an utterly ludicrous account on which you were to insist for over a year."
Winn was also disqualified from driving for three years.


Thousands of children have queued to audition for JK Rowling's new Harry Potter spin-off film in London.

5 August 2015 Last updated at 14:45 BST
Open auditions have taken place at the Excel Centre for the character of Modesty in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Film studio Warner Bros is looking for a girl between the ages of eight and 12 for the role.
Leah has been reporting for Newsround from outside the auditions venue, where young hopefuls have been waiting in line for their turn to audition.
Before the original Harry Potter films were made, movie star Rupert Grint went along to an open audition for his role as Ron Weasley.


A rail company has secured an injunction against rail union Aslef over its members' refusal to drive new Gatwick Express trains.

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) accused Aslef members of refusing to drive a new, longer train.
GTR said it went to the High Court with "great reluctance".
Earlier this month a new train was driven empty, with Aslef members not prepared to work "driver-only" services.
A spokesman for GTR said it was pleased Aslef "must not induce" its drivers to refuse to operate the new 12-car trains.
He said: "Gatwick Express services have operated without conductors operating the doors for 17 years, so we were never able to understand why the Aslef union objected to the operation of these new trains in the same way.
"The new trains will offer significant benefits to passengers, including a much better travelling environment."
The union said it had never reached an agreement for the new trains on the Gatwick Airport to London Victoria service and planned to ballot its members.


Williams test driver Susie Wolff is to retire from motorsport.

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The Scot - the first woman to take part in a grand prix weekend for more than 20 years - believes her aim of racing in Formula 1 "isn't going to happen".
"It was a decision I made at the end of the summer. There was very little opportunity to carry on in Formula 1," the 32-year-old told BBC Breakfast.
"My goal was to get on to the starting grid and that didn't look achievable. So I had to call it a day."
She added: "I always said that as soon as I couldn't get any further I would stop and that time has come."
Wolff will make one more appearance as a racing driver - in the Race of Champions in London's Olympic Stadium on 20-21 November, racing for Scotland alongside former F1 driver and BBC F1 co-commentator David Coulthard.
She started working with Williams in 2012, after racing for seven years in the German Touring Car Championship.
An initial trial in the car developed into a full-time test and development role and she took part in four practice sessions at grands prix over the past two seasons, alongside work in test sessions and in the team's simulator.
But her decision to retire was partly influenced by an incident in March, when her team ruled out the possibility of using her as racing cover for Valtteri Bottas in Malaysia.
"I don't think it was the pivotal moment, but it was one of the moments where I could just see it getting harder and harder," she said.
"But I said to myself 'is this ever going to happen?' It was the harsh reality that the dream wasn't going to come true."
Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams said: "It has been a pleasure to work with Susie over the years and see her develop as a driver within the team.
"Her feedback and knowledge of the car has been an important part of our recent development and we will be sorry to see her go."
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As the only female racing driver with close links to F1, Wolff became a figurehead.
"I do believe a woman can compete at that level," she said.
"I showed that in testing. I don't think it will happen very soon, but I will definitely make sure I help the next generation.
"My progression into F1 came to represent so much more than a racing driver simply trying to reach the pinnacle of the sport.
"It was also the hope that finally there may again be a female on the starting grid. I rode the wave, was energised by all the support and fought hard. There were those who wanted it to happen. Those who didn't."
Wolff said she had given her all in her attempt to secure a race seat.
She added: "We have two issues - not enough young girls starting in karting at a young age and no clear role model. Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it."
Wolff says she wants to try to help the next generation of women make it in motorsport.
"I want to give something back," she said as she prepares to link up with the Motor Sports Association, the UK motorsport authority.
"We will launch a new initiative aimed at celebrating the woman succeeding in motorsport on and off the track now, plus highlighting to the next generation that motorsport is an option for them.
"I dared to be different, I want to inspire others to do the same."
Wolff, who is married to the boss of the world champion Mercedes F1 team Toto Wolff, says she is unlikely to continue to have an active role in the sport.
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"I will attend some races as Toto's wife and a friend of the Williams team but I don't want to be absorbed by F1 like I am now," she told BBC Sport.
"I want to leave completely and give myself room and space to move on to something else. I have a great platform behind me and I will use it in a positive way.
"I'm still young and I want to go on and find that next passion in life so I can wake up every day with a purpose."
Wolff has been linked with taking up a presenting position on the BBC motoring show Top Gear.
When asked if it was something she would be keen on, she told BBC Radio 5 live: "Yes, who wouldn't like to do Top Gear?
"I've had some discussions. There is no story just now."


Watford scored inside the opening 33 seconds as they defeated champions Leicester at Vicarage Road.

Etienne Capoue volleyed the Hornets into the lead - their fastest Premier League goal - before Roberto Pereyra curled in a second after 12 minutes.
Leicester pulled one back when Riyad Mahrez converted a penalty after Miguel Britos' clumsy foul on Jamie Vardy.
But the Foxes could not score again and remain without an away league victory this season.
Leicester become only the third reigning top-flight champions, after Leeds in 1992 and Blackburn in 1995, to start a Premier League season without a win from their opening six away games.
Watford had been embarrassed 6-1 at Liverpool in their last match and boss Walter Mazzarri demanded an improved performance.
But even he could not have expected the blistering start they made as they went ahead in the opening minute.
Leicester midfielder Danny Drinkwater, who had missed England's matches against Scotland and Spain with a rib injury, gave the ball away and that enabled Pereyra to sprint down the left wing before his cross was flicked on by Troy Deeney, with Capoue volleying past Ron-Robert Zieler.
Pereyra doubled the advantage shortly after, cutting inside Drinkwater on the edge of the penalty area and curling the ball into the corner.
Leicester fought back with a penalty after only 14 minutes, but were frustrated and denied by a resolute home defence as the hosts held on for the win.
Leicester won the league title for the first time in their history last season but looked a pale shadow of that side at Vicarage Road.
Defensively vulnerable and lacking a cutting edge up front, the Foxes slipped to their sixth league defeat of the season, double the amount they had throughout the entire 2015-16 campaign.
One huge concern for Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri would be the form of centre-forward Vardy. Before the game Ranieri said he expected to see a "new Vardy" after he scored in England's 2-2 draw with Spain at Wembley on Tuesday.
However, apart from winning a penalty, which was more down to the reckless challenge from Britos, Vardy looked unlikely to end a goal drought that now stretches to 13 club games.
His only attempt came late on when he shot harmlessly wide and the Foxes need him to rediscover the form that saw him score 24 Premier League goals last season.
This result extends a strange, but worrying quirk for Leicester fans - of their side failing to win any of the five matches they have played immediately before a Champions League game.
They remain 14th in the Premier League, but are only two points above the relegation zone, despite impressing in Europe's premier competition.
With 10 points from four Champions League games and without a goal conceded, Leicester are top of Group G and only need two points from their last two games to advance into the last 16. The first of those comes on Tuesday when they entertain Belgian side Club Brugge.
A concern for the Foxes would be that record signing Islam Slimani, who scored the winner in a 1-0 win over Porto, missed the Watford game with what was described as a "slight groin injury".
Watford manager Walter Mazzarri told BBC Sport: "We got the win and I'm very happy. We played the football that I like my team to play and this time we were good enough to score.
"The way Roberto Pereyra played, not just the goal he scored, he ran the whole game and I am very happy with him.
"It was not easy, we know they are a good team. It was our fault with the penalty, in the last 15 or 20 minutes Leicester pressed a lot and we had to concentrate."
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Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri told BBC Sport: "I said to my players 'well done' as they tried to do everything. At the beginning we were losing 2-0, but we got back in the match.
"Of course Watford defended very well. We tried to do our best, the second half was intense but we did not created good chances.
"Their two goals made the match. Our performance was good, the spirit was good and I am positive. When you play with this spirit, I'm positive."
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Leicester are in action again on Tuesday as they host Club Brugge in the Champions League. A win for the Foxes will take them into the last 16 of the competition.
They next play in the Premier League on Saturday, 26 November when they entertain Middlesbrough, with Watford in action the following day with a home league game against Stoke.
Match ends, Watford 2, Leicester City 1.
Second Half ends, Watford 2, Leicester City 1.
Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Wes Morgan.
Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adlène Guédioura (Watford).
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Roberto Pereyra (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Robert Huth (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stefano Okaka (Watford).
Substitution, Watford. Stefano Okaka replaces Troy Deeney.
Corner,  Leicester City. Conceded by Daryl Janmaat.
Substitution, Watford. Adlène Guédioura replaces Nordin Amrabat.
Attempt missed. Nordin Amrabat (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Etienne Capoue with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Daryl Janmaat (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nordin Amrabat.
Demarai Gray (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Demarai Gray (Leicester City).
Juan Zuñiga (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Wes Morgan (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Troy Deeney (Watford).
Attempt saved. Robert Huth (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Ahmed Musa (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt blocked. Wes Morgan (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leicester City. Ahmed Musa replaces Marc Albrighton.
Corner,  Leicester City. Conceded by Etienne Capoue.
Corner,  Leicester City. Conceded by Juan Zuñiga.
Foul by Robert Huth (Leicester City).
Miguel Britos (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Leicester City. Conceded by Younes Kaboul.
Attempt missed. Nordin Amrabat (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Etienne Capoue.
Foul by Wes Morgan (Leicester City).
Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Sebastian Prödl (Watford) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Etienne Capoue with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Watford. Conceded by Marc Albrighton.
Foul by Demarai Gray (Leicester City).
Valon Behrami (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
Roberto Pereyra (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leicester City. Demarai Gray replaces Shinji Okazaki.
Substitution, Leicester City. Jeffrey Schlupp replaces Christian Fuchs.
Attempt missed. Younes Kaboul (Watford) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Roberto Pereyra with a cross following a corner.


While his Real Madrid teammates have been competing at Brazil's World Cup, Wales' Gareth Bale was spotted playing for the camera much nearer home.

Bale, who moved to Spain last summer, was on Penarth Pier near Cardiff - the city where he grew up.
He is understood to be filming an advert for a sports network.
As fans gathered to catch a glimpse on Monday - the 24-year-old showed off some of the skills that have made him the world's most expensive footballer.


Tanzania's newly elected President John Magufuli has cancelled independence day celebrations, and has ordered a clean-up campaign instead.

It would be "shameful" to  spend huge sums of money on the celebrations when "our people are dying of cholera", he said, state television reported.
Cholera has killed about 60 people in Tanzania in the last three months.
This will be the first time in 54 years Tanzania will not hold celebrations to mark independence from the UK.
Mr Magufuli's party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), has governed since colonial rule ended on 9 December 1961, winning a new mandate in elections last month.
Many people were caught by surprise by Mr Magufuli's announcement but have welcomed the move, the BBC's Sammy Awami reports from the main city, Dar es Salaam.
They feel it shows his commitment to ending lavish spending and tackling the cholera outbreak which has caused widespread concern, he says.
But it remains to be seen whether people will heed his call to spend independence day cleaning up their residential areas and work-places, our reporter adds.
Independence day celebrations are usually marked with a presidential address, a military parade and performances by music groups at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
Mr Magufuli's spokesman Gerson Msigwa did not say how much would be saved by cancelling the event but said the money would be spent on hospitals, and the fight against cholera - a major problem in poor areas where there is a lack of proper toilets.
Mr Magufuli has announced a range of cost-cutting measures since he took office, including a ban on unnecessary foreign travel by government officials.
Last week, he ordered the cost of a party to inaugurate the new parliament to be slashed from $100,000 (Â£66,000) to $7,000.
He also sacked the head of the main state hospital after finding patients sleeping on the floor during a surprise visit to the facility.
Mr Magufuli beat opposition candidate Edward Lowassa in last month's election to become Tanzania's fifth president since independence.
Nicknamed "The Bulldozer", Mr Magufuli is reputed to be a no-nonsense, results-driven politician.
He was the works minister, before being elected president.


French police have identified the third attacker at the Bataclan during the Paris attacks, Prime Minister Manuel Valls says.

Mr Valls did not name the man, but did not dispute reports naming him as French national Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23, from Strasbourg.
Ninety people were killed at the Bataclan in last month's attacks.
All three gunmen who attacked the venue wearing suicide vests have been confirmed as French nationals.
Other attackers who took part in the co-ordinated attacks around Paris on 13 November that killed 130 people in total have either been identified as home-grown French or Belgian extremists.
Mohamed-Aggad reportedly travelled to Syria in late 2013 as part of a group of radicalised youth from Strasbourg that included his brother.
Several of the group were later arrested upon returning to France in spring last year. Mohamed-Aggad is believed to have remained in Syria.
Mohamed-Aggad was identified late last week by police after DNA samples were confirmed to match with members of his family, AFP reports.
The two others who blew themselves up at the music venue were identified as Frenchmen Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, and Samy Amimour, 28.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says we can now be comfortably sure that Mostefai, Amimour, Mohamed-Aggad, Bilal Hadfi and suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud had all travelled to Syria. He says what makes Mohamed-Aggad slightly different is that he appears to have spent longer than the others in Syria.
In addition, two of the Stade de France attackers were believed to have come to Europe via the Greek island of Leros and may have been posing as Syrian refugees.
Three men stormed the Bataclan at around 21:40 on 13 November, during a concert by the Eagles of Death Metal rock group. They opened fire on concert-goers, repeatedly reloading their guns before police started to arrive at the scene.
One of the gunmen was killed but the two others took hostages and eventually died when elite police units launched a final assault hours later.
French media say that Mohamed-Aggad was recruited by Mourad Fares, a man known to have actively recruited young Frenchmen on behalf of jihadist groups in Syria.
Fares was arrested in Turkey last year. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described him as a "particularly dangerous individual close to jihadist terrorist movements" including the so-called Islamic State (IS).
He was placed under provisional detention in France in September 2014 and is being prosecuted for a string of terrorism-related offences in France and Syria.
One other Paris attacker remains to be identified.
Mohamed-Aggad's father, Said, told Le Parisien that he had only learned of his son's role in the Bataclan massacre through the media and "would have killed him beforehand" if he had known that he would go on to carry out such an attack.
Said Mohamed-Abbag separated from his wife in 2007 and said his son had lived with his mother.
The other two Bataclan attackers were identified in the aftermath of the shooting.
Mostefai was identified from a finger-tip found at the venue. He was reported to have previously worked as a baker in Chartres near Paris but in 2010 was identified by authorities as a suspected extremist.
Amimour, from the north-eastern Paris suburb of Drancy, had been charged with terror offences in 2012 over claims he planned to travel to Yemen.
After being placed under judicial supervision, he disappeared, with authorities issuing an international arrest warrant.


Like many denizens of Washington DC, President Donald Trump is escaping the heat that smothers the nation's capital in August.

But his respite is anything but brief. The president will spend 17 days at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for what the White House bills as a "working vacation".
For someone who brands himself as an indefatigable worker, the nearly three-week holiday has raised a few eyebrows.
In his 2004 book, Think Like a Billionaire, Mr Trump offered the advice: "Don't take vacations. What's the point? If you're not enjoying your work, you're in the wrong job."
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However, the president's departure is also part of a planned renovation. The entire West Wing staff is required to vacate the premises in August while the building's 27-year-old heating, air conditioning and ventilation system is replaced, according to White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters.
Other maintenance includes repairing steps on the side of the executive mansion facing the National Mall as well as painting, replacing carpets and curtains, and fixing, ahem, water leaks in the press office.
Why is Trump being criticised?
Mr Trump often carped about President Barack Obama's penchant for golf.
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But as critics point out, Mr Trump's 17-day holiday is nearly twice as long as the one Mr Obama took in August during his first year.
If weekends are included, that means he's taking off 13 days, compared with Mr Obama's eight.
"I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Mr Trump told a Virginia crowd during the campaign, in a gibe at Mr Obama.
Before Mr Obama's August 2009 holiday in Martha's Vineyard, he took two other vacations that were said to entail work, including a weekend trip to Arizona and Colorado and a four-day trip to the family home in Chicago for Valentine's Day.
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By comparison, Mr Trump has taken 11 such "working" vacations before this month to his properties in Palm Beach, Florida, and New Jersey. He also spent a weekend in June at the government-owned presidential retreat, Camp David, Maryland.
Mr Obama was labelled a hypocrite, too, after writing in his 2008 book The Audacity of Hope that no president should take vacations.
Mr Trump told 60 Minutes in November: "There's just so much to be done, so I don't think we'll be very big on vacations, no."
Last month, he told Republican senators to cancel their holidays until lawmakers could pass a plan to overturn the health law known as Obamacare.
The bill failed to pass the Senate, and Congress has adjourned for summer recess until 5 September.
Newsweek's cover on Thursday depicted the president lounging in a reclining chair calling him a "Lazy Boy".
"Imagine how bad he'd feel if he did any work," the magazine sniped.
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Some Bedminster residents are also irked by Mr Trump's extended stay at his central New Jersey property.
Protecting the president often means increased security inconveniences members of the public.
The local airport has been shut down until 20 August, grounding 110 private planes and 60 flight school students.
The Secret Service also said it would use an unmanned drone during Mr Trump's stay, with optical and infrared cameras. Roads may be closed to clear the way for the commander-in-chief's motorcade.
The tradition of presidential vacations extends as far back as George Washington, who much preferred spending time at his Mount Vernon plantation on the Potomac River.
But the custom of controversy over presidential absences from the White House is nearly just as old.
When the capital was still Philadelphia in 1797, President John Adams was criticised for spending several months at his home in Massachusetts, where his sick wife Abigail stayed, as tensions escalated with France.
President Harry Truman preferred the palm trees of Key West, Florida, while Ronald Reagan travelled to his California ranch to ride horses, build fences and cut brush, according to Lawrence Knutson, a historian for the White House Historical Association.
Famous images show a tanned John F Kennedy at his holiday home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and George HW Bush recharged at his Walker Point residence in Kennebunkport, Maine.
President Richard Nixon split his time between his estates in Key Biscayne, Florida, and San Clemente, California.
He later came under scrutiny for funnelling millions in public funds towards security and improvements at both residences, including a floating helicopter pad in Biscayne Bay.
The US is the only advanced nation that does not mandate paid leave, which is why the American work ethic seems a bit strange to the rest of the world.
According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, workers in most European countries are legally entitled to 20 days of holiday or more each year.
Australia and New Zealand also require employers to allow at least 20 vacation days annually, French employees get as many as 30 days off and Swedes enjoy five whole weeks of holiday.
In contrast, most Americans get only two weeks off, but some workers let that time off lapse out of fear of losing their jobs.
In 2016, 54% of employees ended the year with unused time off, surrendering 662 million vacation days, according to the US Travel Association's Project Time Off study.
In fact, nearly a third of workers are not granted paid sick leave and more than a quarter do not have any personal time off at all, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. States such as California and New York have remedied that by requiring employers to offer paid sick leave.
Two in three US employees (66%) say they continue to work while on holiday last year, according to a report by jobs site Glassdoor.
It remains to be seen how much of Mr Trump's working vacation will be spent running the country instead of a golf cart.


The future of a key part of the government's system to remove failed asylum seekers is in doubt after the High Court ruled it was unlawful.

Mr Justice Nicol said the Home Office's system to "fast track" certain cases contained "structural unfairness".
The process accelerates legal hearings and appeals, while keeping the individual detained at all times.
The government said it was disappointed by the judgment and would be appealing.
The judge said that despite a number of safeguards, applicants were not able to properly prepare their cases and their lawyers were also put in an unfair position.
Ruling on a case brought by campaign group Detention Action, the judge said: "In my judgment the Fast Track Rules (FTR) do incorporate structural unfairness. They put the appellant at a serious procedural disadvantage.
"The appellant is always detained and, as is obvious, the fact of detention places additional obstacles in the way of achieving all that has to be done before a tribunal hearing.
Fast-track removals were introduced more than a decade ago because the then government believed too many people were abusing the system.
But critics have long said the speed of the procedure is manifestly unfair, not least to individuals who may have complex but genuine claims for protection.
Mr Justice Nicol has put a stay on his judgement, and that means that the fast-track system remains in operation and asylum seekers within it can still be removed.
But if the government loses the eventual appeal, it could deal a major blow to an important part of the removal system.
There have been previous judgements against parts of the system - but this one is more important because the court said it was wrong that ministers could impose time limits, rather than giving discretion to tribunals. That's something which the judge said looked like sacrificing fairness "on the altar of speed and convenience".
"What seems to me to make the FTR structurally unfair is the serious procedural disadvantage which comes from the abbreviated timetable and curtailed case management powers."
During the case, the government had argued that the system was fair because asylum seekers could ask for a 10-day adjournment before a final decision.
But the judge said the power to adjourn had a "very limited role" in ensuring a just outcome.
"Therefore I find that the claimant's challenge to the legality of the Fast Track Rules succeeds," the judge concluded.
Although Mr Justice Nicol has ruled the system illegal, he has put a temporary delay on his judgement coming into force to allow the government time to consider an appeal.
The Detained Fast Track system plays a key role in immigration removals and can lead to someone leaving the country in about 22 days.
The system was created in 2003, and was applied to 4,300 asylum seekers in 2013.
Reacting to the judgement, Detention Action director Jerome Phelps said: "We are pleased that the Fast Track appeals process has been found not just unlawful but ultra vires [beyond the government's powers].
"But we are shocked and disappointed that a stay has been granted, given that this is an area of law requiring the highest standards of justice and fairness.
"By granting the stay, it appears that the judge considers that the severe potential consequences to asylum seekers, including removal in breach of the Refugee Convention, are outweighed by the inconvenience to the Home Office and Lord Chancellor of suspending the process."
The Refugee Council welcomed the ruling, with chief executive Maurice Wren saying: "Today the courts have recognised the detained fast track appeals system for what it is: fundamentally unfair and a grotesque caricature of British justice.
"This is an important step forward in the battle to stop government officials arbitrarily and shamefully imprisoning some of the world's most desperate people who have simply asked for our protection."
The government says Detained Fast Track is an important part of the UK's immigration system.
A spokesman said: "It contributes significantly to the speed and effectiveness with which asylum cases are processed - including swiftly removing those found not to be in need of protection - and saves the taxpayer money."


The sixth and last of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 Destroyers has been launched on the River Clyde in Glasgow.

The 7,500 tonne warship, HMS Duncan, slipped into the water from BAE's shipyard at Govan.
The vessel will provide air defence cover, be able to carry up to 60 Royal Marine Commandos and operate a variety of helicopters from its flight deck.
It will enter service in 2014. The completed Type 45s are Daring, Diamond, Dauntless, Dragon and Defender.
The vessel is named after Admiral Adam Duncan, who led the Royal Navy's victory over the Dutch fleet in 1797.
It was built by BAE Systems with 2,800 tonnes of steel - more than used in Blackpool Tower.
The ship is equipped with the Sea Viper missile system, designed to tackle multiple airborne or sea-based targets.
Minister for Defence Equipment, Peter Luff, said: "The launch of HMS Duncan is the culmination of a huge effort by workers here on the Clyde, across the country throughout the supply chain, and in the MoD, completing this class of potent warfighters of which everyone involved can be very proud.
"Following on from HMS Daring being declared in service and the successful first firing of the Sea Viper missile system, this is another significant milestone in the delivery of a truly world-class air defence capability to the Royal Navy."
Commander-in-Chief Fleet Admiral Sir Trevor Soar added: "The Type 45 is world class. These ships are as versatile as they are powerful.
"Providing flexible global reach they will deliver broad utility, common to maritime forces, and give the UK military, diplomatic and political options, with their ability to exert effect on land from the sea.
"This ranges from deterrence and conflict prevention right up to high intensity war fighting and all points between."