The Welsh assembly's presiding officer has denied there is a drinking culture among its members.

Rosemary Butler spoke after the conduct of AMs was put under the spotlight following a report into the behaviour of Llanelli Labour AM Keith Davies after a night out.
In denying there was a drinking culture in Cardiff Bay, she said what people did after work was a matter for them.
Ms Butler also said she would like to a rise in AM numbers to ease workload.
Speaking on the first anniversary of being in post, Ms Butler said chastisement from the standards committee should be the limit of Mr Davies's punishment after he was said to have brought the institution into disrepute following a night out in Cardiff.
Mr Davies, 71, apologised after the incident in the early hours of the morning at the city's St David's Hotel last month.
He was staying at the hotel where some AMs who live outside Cardiff stay when the assembly is sitting.
After a night out he returned to the hotel where staff were subjected to "abuse and threats" from Mr Davies's female companion.
Noise complaints were also made by fellow customers at the hotel.
Ms Butler, the Labour AM for Newport West, said: "Public ignominy is enough of a chastisement for anyone.
"Members' individual behaviour is a matter for them, but if they do bring the assembly into disrespect at any time in future then obviously the standards committee will look at that issue."
In 2010, the then AM Mick Bates was fined by Cardiff magistrates after being found guilty of assaulting paramedics who came to his aid when he drunkenly fell down stairs at a city restaurant.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats suspended him after his arrest.
The incident involving Mr Davies on 24 April did not involve police.
He has written to the hotel apologising, and also said he regretted the "pain and discomfort" brought to his family.
When asked if there was a drinking culture among AMs, Ms Butler added: "Certainly not. We don't have a bar here.
"If we have receptions here at lunchtime we don't encourage people to have alcohol. What people do after work is entirely a matter for them, but I'm certainly not prepared to say there is a drinking culture."
Ms Butler also spoke about increasing the assembly's size from 60 to 80 elected members which she said would ease the workload, but admitted there was little appetite for it.
"If you take out the government you reduce the number of members available to do the work quite considerably," she added.
"Many of the councils in Wales have far more members than we do and far less responsibility."
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas said Mr Davies should give details about the events at the hotel.
"The people of Wales should be able to expect high standards of conduct that do not bring the assembly into disrepute," said Mr Thomas.
"It is now for the assembly to debate the standard commissioner's report and impose appropriate sanctions.
"At the very least, I would expect Keith Davies to give a clear oral statement and apologise in person to the assembly and the people of Llanelli."
Labour MP Alun Michael said there was not so much of a drinking culture as there used to be.
"I think the level of drinking and the culture of drinking has changed quite considerably over the years, certainly in the time I've been in parliament," the Cardiff South and Penarth MP told BBC Radio Wales.
"At one time heavy drinking was the norm, there would be a lot of drinking at lunchtime. Those things have changed."
Mr Michael, a former first minister, added that in any group in society there will be some members who drink too much and some who have a drink problem.
"I don't think that's any different in relation to members of parliament or assembly members," he said.
"I would say the culture is very much against excessive drinking and it's much less a part of the culture in either body than was the case even if you go back 10 years."


A council has taken back control of a community centre amid "serious safeguarding concerns" including claims of unsupervised underage drinking.

Adur District Council has taken temporary possession of the Fishersgate centre, near Portslade in Sussex.
Council leader Neil Parkin said negotiations had not resolved issues.
Steve Jupp, Fishersgate Community Association (FCA) trustee, said nothing illegal had taken place and trustees had tried to work with the council.
"We have been really trying hard with the council but every step forward we make they push us back," he said.
The council said FCA needed to have a safeguarding policy and put in place criminal records checks for trustees.
It said there were issues about the use of and access to the centre for all the community, and there had been an unacceptable instance of underage drinking.
Mr Parkin said the council would now spend ??30,000 on the centre to remove temporary fencing, make it safe, install new fire doors and open a play area, after which it would be in a position to return the centre to the FCA.
Mr Jupp said activities at the centre included a boxing club, boot sales, quiz nights, private parties.
He said the trustees had undergone criminal record checks and the council had carried out safety and fire alarm checks on the site.
But he said the FCA had been unable to agree a lease with the council because of court orders.
He said there had been underage drinking at a private 18th birthday party and claims in another incident police were called after two gangs descended on the hall - neither of which trustees were able to stop.


A fall in farming incomes has come as "no surprise" to farmers, NFU Cymru has said.

Figures released by the Welsh Government for 2015-16 show the average farm business income across all farm types fell by Â£6,800 to Â£22,200 - a decline of about 23%.
NFU Cymru president Stephen James said farmers need "improved returns" from the market place.
He also emphasised the need to "remain competitive" in UK and EU markets.
Dairy farms suffered the biggest blow, with the average income falling by 53%.
Lowland and sheep farms were down by 40%, while less favoured area (LFA) cattle and sheep farms - land with natural handicaps like lack of water or short crop seasons - were down by 1%.
Net farm income - the return to the farming family for their labour after costs such as rent, depreciation and interest payments - also fell by about 37% to Â£11,000.
Mr James, a dairy farmer in Pembrokeshire, said: "Unfortunately, these figures come as no surprise to farmers.
"The fall in farm gate prices - in particular for milk and lamb over the reporting period - has resulted in this dramatic fall in farm incomes."
He said the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments are "as important as ever" in helping to compensate farmers for market failure.
The Welsh Government was commended for delivering almost 90% of BPS payments on the opening day of the payment window in December, but was called to make the remaining payments "without undue delay".
These are described as a safety net for farmers, with support given to those who produce agricultural products the public want.
Mr James also emphasised the need for "favourable government policies post-Brexit".
"All our efforts must be focused on developing policies that underpin food production in Wales and also on securing funding arrangements that ensure we remain competitive in UK and EU markets," he said.


Cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be held 75 miles away from the city as part of a £1.2bn programme of cuts.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board approved moving the track cycling and mountain bike events to an existing venue in Izu.
Both were due to be in temporary venues - track cycling in the Ariake district and mountain biking at Sea Forest.
The changes to the programme will bring savings of £66m to the Games budget.
Earlier this year, the Japanese government scrapped plans for a £1.3bn Olympic stadium designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid - the designer of the London 2012 aquatics centre.
A new plan costing about 60% of the original is expected to be agreed.
Sea Forest will still host the canoe sprint and rowing events, plus the cross-country and eventing elements of the equestrian programme.
An IOC statement said: "The athlete experience will be guaranteed, as all athletes and team officials whose events will be at Izu will have the option to stay in the main athletes' village before and after their competition.
"During the competitions, they will stay at a satellite village located close to the event venues."
International Cycling Union president Brian Cookson said his organisation had embraced the IOC's cost-cutting programme and the UCI would work with local authorities to build on the sport's legacy in Japan.
All sports have now been assigned venues for Tokyo 2020 except football, with a decision on that expected after next year's Rio Olympics.


Veteran striker Nathan Tyson has become Kilmarnock's 17th signing since the end of last season.

The 34-year-old, who was released from his contract this summer after two years with Doncaster Rovers, has secured a one-year contract.
Tyson told Kilmarnock's website: "I'm very excited to face a new challenge as I've never had the opportunity to play top-flight football.
"When the chance came, I couldn't say no, so I jumped at it."
Tyson began his professional career at Reading and spent six seasons at Nottingham Forest, making more than 200 appearances for the club.
After further moves to Derby and Blackpool - plus loan spells at Fleetwood Town and Notts County - he joined Doncaster in 2014.
Tyson, who played for England at under-20 level, lost his place to new signing Gary McSheffrey at the end of the last season and had his contract terminated "by mutual consent" after Doncaster's relegation to England's League Two.
Port Vale manager Bruno Rebeiro had expressed his desire to sign the striker - who scored 21 goals in 80 Doncaster appearances - for the League One club earlier this summer.
However, last week he joined League Two outfit Carlisle United on trial and scored in a friendly against Queen of the South.


Karen Danczuk has failed in her bid to be selected as a candidate to become an MP at the general election on 8 June.

Mrs Danczuk, who found fame posting "selfies" on Twitter, was hoping to be chosen to stand for Labour in the marginal Bury North constituency.
But the party has instead chosen James Frith to stand for the seat, currently held by Conservative David Nuttall.
Mrs Danczuk has tweeted her support for Mr Frith and said she will campaign alongside him.
The mother-of-two served as a Labour councillor from 2012 to 2015 in her hometown of Rochdale.
She later became famous for posting revealing photographs on Twitter.
The 33-year-old waived her right to anonymity last year after her brother was jailed for raping her as a child.
She became patron of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood and said she wanted to become an MP to help victims of sexual abuse.
Mrs Danczuk is the ex-wife of Simon Danczuk, the sitting MP in Rochdale.
He was suspended by Labour in 2015, pending an investigation, following revelations he exchanged explicit messages with a 17-year-old girl.
Mr Danczuk, 50, who currently serves as an independent MP, recently said he "expects to fight the general election for Labour" in Rochdale on 8 June.


Plans to introduce a dual carriageway between Taunton and Ilminster have been debated among election candidates in Taunton Deane.

In December, the coalition government committed to dualling the A358 and the A303.
BBC Somerset's live debate at Richard Huish College was attended by all the candidates except Independent Bruce Gauld.
The debate also saw cross-party support for Taunton to have its own university.
Labour's Neil Guild said his party would postpone the A358 improvements to "fund a rail freeze for next year which benefits everybody in the country".
However, he supported dualling of the A303 at Stonehenge and between Sparkford and Ilminster.
Liberal Democrat Rachel Gilmour pledged to keep the money for the A358 dualling project.
Independent Mike Rigby said he would support the protection of bus subsidies, the creation of more cycling paths, as well as the dualling of the A358.
Conservative Rebecca Pow said she had ensured the A358 project had been "back on the government's agenda".
Laura Bailhache, from UKIP, said the A358 was a priority but opposed building a tunnel underneath Stonehenge as part of the A303 project.
She added: "We should be reopening the smaller railways and that's going to help an area like the South West."
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate Stephen German said: "We need to re-nationalise under democratic public controls the railways, the buses - there would be no debate, no controversy over the subsidies - they would be adequately run."
Clive Martin, from the Green Party, said: "We need to spend some of the money earmarked for roads, on buses, on trains on cycle ways, on bringing in a railway station at Wellington."
The candidates for the constituency are:
Rebecca Pow - Conservative
Clive Martin - Green
Bruce Gauld - Independent
Neil Guild - Labour
Rachel Gilmour - Liberal Democrat
Mike Rigby - Independent
Steve German -  Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
Laura Bailhache - UKIP


A man deliberately crashed his car off the M1 motorway to kill his wife who wanted a divorce, a court heard.

At the opening of Ian Walters' trial, the jury was shown CCTV footage of the final seconds before the crash that left his wife Tracy fatally injured.
Mr Walters, 51, denies murdering his wife, who died in hospital after the crash in Leicestershire, in March 2014.
The defendant, of Tregantle Walk, Swindon, who was also injured, said he could not remember the crash.
Leicester Crown Court heard the couple had married in 2012, but over time Mr Walters had become abusive.
In February last year, Mrs Walters, 48, told her husband she wanted a divorce.
Prosecutor Charles Miskin said: "He knew he was in trouble with [Tracy], with wider family and knew he was in trouble with police.
"He probably felt some degree of humiliation and wanted to show her who was in charge. That he was in control."
On the day of the crash, on 21 March 2014, the pair had been travelling home with their two dogs after cutting short a holiday in the Yorkshire Dales, the jury was told.
Footage of four seconds before the crash showed the car travelling at 79mph, apparently with no obstructions in the road.
Mr Miskin said: "He must have foreseen that really serious injury or death would result from this crash.
"While obviously he risked his own life and limb, he also intended to cause really serious bodily injury to his wife."
He said Mrs Walters had been texting her son and in her last message wrote of her husband: "He's driving and volatile... I need him arrested when we get home."
Mr Miskin said it is this accumulation of texts that "acted as a trigger for his conduct."
Mrs Walters was cut from the wreckage and airlifted to hospital. She died from her injuries two days later.
Mr Walters was also airlifted to hospital with serious injuries and remained in hospital for a month.
He later told police he would not have done anything intentionally to hurt her.
The trial, expected to last four weeks, continues.


Firefighters have tackled a blaze at a derelict mill in Greater Manchester.

The fire service said it was alerted to reports of a fire at Bailey Mill on Delph New Road in Oldham at about 15:10 BST.
Crews found several floors of the seven-storey building well alight and ultimately deployed four fire engines and an aerial appliance.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has advised people to avoid the area and keep windows and doors closed.
There are currently road diversions in place on Delph New Road, Huddersfield Road and Diggle Road and residents on Station Approach have been evacuated.


A lion cub from a pride which won fame on a BBC wildlife programme has died in Narok, south-west Kenya.

The cub, known as Alan, had been recovering from a suspected episode of poisoning.
But he was then hurt in a clash with a buffalo herd and a vet was "forced to make the difficult decision to euthanize" him, a wildlife trust said.
Maasai herdsmen have been charged with poisoning the lions. This is the third lion to die.
The poisoning is alleged to have taken place after the herdsmen illegally brought cattle on to the reserve and three were killed by the lions.
The herdsmen, Simindei Naururi and Kulangash Toposatare, are charged of lacing one of the carcasses with pesticides.
Maasai representatives say they do not have enough grazing land for their cattle and are forced to take their animals into lion territory after dark.
The lions, from the Marsh pride, were featured on BBC wildlife programme Big Cat Diary.
Several lions are still being treated for poisoning.
The Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) has warned that other animals might have been affected. Vultures have also died after eating the meat.
One of the two lions killed was Bibi, a 17-year-old female lion. A BBC wildlife crew member at the scene said she was found "foaming at the mouth, fitting and panting".
The other was disfigured beyond recognition after being eaten by hyenas, said KWS Corporate Communications Manager Paul Udoto.
Another lioness, Sienna, is missing, according to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Her two-year-old cub is reportedly being treated by vets.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Nairobi says there is conflict between the big cats and Maasai herdsmen. Local cattle herders have poisoned lions in the past to stop them eating their cattle.


As Greece's economy has declined, drug use and prostitution has become a common sight around Omonia Square in downtown Athens.

It is not where you would expect to find the main offices of a country's ruling political party.
But left-wing Syriza still has its headquarters nearby, in a show of solidarity with the poor and the vulnerable that it pledged to protect when it came to power.
The sun is beating down, and as eurozone finance ministers discuss the Greek government proposals in Brussels, people here seem to be feeling the heat.
Vasilis Papadopoulos, 24, backed Syriza in Sunday's referendum and voted "No".
But with further austerity measures lined up in the government's latest offer, he has decided it is time to leave his country.
The 24-year-old accountant has applied for a university course in the UK because "I have the feeling that nothing is changing here".
He says he does not regret voting "No", but that he now has to "live with the consequences".
And the consequences so far seem to be a different package of spending cuts and tax hikes.
"I read the terms," he says. "They are really harsh."
The proposals got the backing of the Greek parliament in the early hours of Saturday, although some Syriza members voted against the plan or abstained.
Experts say this left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras under pressure over his parliamentary majority, and a government reshuffle is likely on Monday.
Isabella Drakopoulou, a waitress who lives in Omonia, says she hopes Greece will get a better deal after Sunday's referendum result, but she is not convinced these proposals will deliver it.
"I think everyone is expecting it to be hard," she says.
"Maybe if all the hard things come now, after 10 years it will get better here."
But so far Isabella, 24, has only seen things getting worse in this area, amid crumbling public healthcare and social services.
"The drug abuse here is getting out control," she says.
"Living in Athens, it makes me sad to see people in such terrible situations."
Whatever the outcome in Brussels, Syriza will have to bring the result back here to Athens.
And then the politicians will have to deal with the destitution on their doorstep.


A court in India has delivered a guilty verdict against a man for plotting a bomb blast at a German bakery in the western city of Pune in 2010.

The blast targeted the bakery when it was full of tourists and students, killing 17 people and wounding 64. Five foreigners were among the dead.
Mirza Himayat Baig, who belonged to a banned militant group, will be sentenced on Thursday.
Six other suspects are still at large, police said.
The prosecution said the blast was planned at a meeting in Colombo where Mr Baig, a resident of Maharashtra state, was given bomb-making training.
The defence had maintained that Mr Baig was not in Pune when the explosion happened on 13 February 2010.
He was arrested the following September after investigators found a cache of explosives at his home in Latur in Maharashtra.
The German Bakery is located near the Osho Ashram, a mystic centre popular with visitors to Pune.
Reports said an unattended package exploded when a waiter in the restaurant attempted to open it.
The bombing was the first major strike of its kind in India since the deadly Mumbai attacks of 2008.
The blast came a day after India and Pakistan agreed to meet for talks in Delhi - their first formal negotiations since the 2008 attacks.


The case against a woman accused of causing her partner's death by careless driving has been found not proven.

Vicki Williamson, 36, of Dundee, was charged with causing the death of Liam Thornton, 26, on 12 August 2014.
He died when Ms Williamson's Corsa was involved in a collision with another car on the A956 at Aberdeen's Charleston flyover.
A jury at Aberdeen Sheriff Court found the charge against her not proven by a majority verdict.
During the trial, the court heard that the slip road leading off the A90 was in a "poor" state of repair.
It was worn in places and had a noticeable dent in the road which was often "greasy" in wet conditions.
Ms Williamson told the court during her evidence that she felt as if she had skidded on black ice and her car failed to react to her trying to steer out of the way of the other car.
She was seriously injured in the crash and spent 11 weeks in hospital recovering from broken ribs and a broken pelvis.
A four-year-old child was also injured in the incident.
Ms Williamson wept as the jury found the case against her not proven.
She had previously admitted driving with a defective tyre which was marginally under the 1.6mm limit and fined 80 pounds yesterday.
She was also given three points on her licence.


A man's body was pulled from the River Ouse in York after it was spotted by a member of the public on New Year's Day.

Police were called to the river near Holly Terrace at about 13:30 GMT on Sunday.
With the help of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, the body of a man was recovered from the water a short time later.
Officers are investigating how the man, who has not yet been identified, came to be in the river.
In recent years there have been concerns about the number of deaths in the River Ouse and the Foss, also in York.
Three people died in the rivers in 2011, including 21-year-old Richard Horrocks, who jumped from a balcony to celebrate his last shift at a bar.
York student Megan Roberts, 20, soldier Tyler Pearson, 18 and Ben Clarkson, 22, who was found in the Foss after he went missing, all died in 2014.
Soldier Stephen Fry, 20, died in 2015 and student Christian Palmer, 20, died in July 2016.


A historical stone bridge in Cumbria has collapsed more than six weeks after it was damaged during Storm Desmond.

Bell Bridge, near Sebergham, was closed after cracks were found in the wake of flooding which devastated the region in early December.
The Grade II-listed single-track stone structure dates back to the 18th Century, and was used by walkers on the Cumbrian Way.
Following heavy rain on Tuesday it has now collapsed into the River Caldew.


The New York Times says hackers based in China "persistently" infiltrated its computer network over a period of four months in late 2012 and early 2013.

Repeated cyber attacks on foreign governments, companies and organisations have been traced to China over the past few years and the Chinese government has often been accused of backing them, either directly or by allowing them to go ahead. Analysts say the attacks often appear to be an attempt to gather information and protect China's image.
Beijing routinely denies state-backed hacking and says it is more a victim of hacking than the culprit. Many other countries are also believed to use cyber espionage.
Here are some of the major cyber attacks for which the finger has been pointed at China.
In 2011, internet security firm McAfee said it had uncovered one of the largest ever series of cyber attacks, targeting 72 different organisations over five years, including the International Olympic Committee, the UN and security firms. It did not name a culprit for the hack, dubbed Operation Shady RAT, but it was widely considered to have been China. Jim Lewis, a cyber expert with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said at the time it was "very likely China was behind the campaign because some of the targets had information that would be of particular interest to Beijing".
In 2009, suspicion fell on China when hackers broke into the computers of US defence firm Lockheed Martin and took large amounts of data relating to the Joint Strike Fighter, the most advanced warplane in the world. The Wall Street Journal said investigators had traced the attack with a "high level of certainty" to Chinese IP addresses, the unique number that identifies a computer.
In November 2012, drinks giant Coca-Cola said it had been the victim of a cyber attack for more than a month in 2009, Bloomberg news reported. Code in a malicious email, sent to an executive, allowed hackers to operate undetected, logging commercially sensitive information. The attack happened while the company was attempting to buy the China Huiyuan Juice Group for about $2.4bn (Â£1.5bn). The takeover collapsed, but had it happened it would have become the largest foreign takeover of a Chinese company.
In January 2010, Google said it had been subjected to a "sophisticated cyber attack originating from China". It said the email accounts of human rights activists were among those hacked. The allegations sparked a row between the search engine and the Chinese government over censorship and internet privacy, which prompted Google to move it's Chinese-language operations to Hong Kong.
Information contained in diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks showed that the US embassy believed senior Chinese politicians had been behind the attacks. They alleged that a politburo member ordered them after Googling his name and finding critical comments online.
In June 2011, Google said hackers based in China's Jinan province had compromised the personal email accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists. China said that to blame it was "unacceptable".
Researchers in Canada announced in 2009 that they had been tracking a vast and sustained cyber attack they called Ghostnet for the past 10 months. Ghostnet was one of the largest hacks uncovered in terms of its geographic reach, infiltrating 1,295 computers in 103 countries, targeting computers belonging to foreign ministries and embassies and those linked with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
While they traced Ghostnet mainly to computers in China, the researchers at Information Warfare Monitor made no direct link to the government and Beijing denied involvement.
The space agency was the victim of 47 cyber attacks during 2011. The most serious was traced to IP addresses in China and accessed computers in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which controls Nasa's robots in space. Nasa told the US Congress that the hackers had access to sensitive accounts, could create, delete and modify systems and accounts and upload hacking software. "In other words, the attackers had full functional control over these networks," it said.
The Korean Communications Commission blamed Chinese hackers for stealing data from 35 million accounts on popular social media sites in 2011. The hackers were believed to have stolen phone numbers, email addresses, names and encrypted information about users.
In June 2007, an infiltration of computers at the US Defense Department was blamed on Chinese hackers, with officials saying there was a "very high level of confidence... trending towards total certainty" that the military was behind it, the Financial Times reported. The attack forced the Pentagon to take down its network for a week, although they US said most of the data taken were unclassified. China said the allegation was "totally groundless", the phrase it has routinely used in such circumstances.
The New York Times said it was hacked for four months, though for most of that time it was tracking the hackers through its systems to try to understand what they were doing and how to get rid of them. The paper said the attacks began while it was preparing a report which alleged that the family of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had vast hidden wealth, and intensified afterwards, apparently looking for names of sources.
The Times said the attacks bore the hallmarks of previous Chinese hacks, including being routed through the same university computers.
Richard Bejtlich, the chief security officer of the firm hired to investigate, said that if each attack was viewed in isolation it was hard to say with certainty that China's military was to blame.
"When you see the same group steal data on Chinese dissidents and Tibetan activists, then attack an aerospace company, it starts to push you in the right direction," he said.
In April 2012, Boxun.com - a website based in the US which had reported extensively on the scandal involving senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai - said it was crippled for several hours by a concerted hacking attack. The origin of the attack was not clear but the site's manager Watson Meng was quoted as saying he believed it was ordered by China's security services.


Graeme McDowell began the defence of his World Match Play title by beating France's Alexander Levy 3&2 in Wednesday's opening match.

Four birdies in the first six holes set the Northern Irishman on his way at the London Golf Club near Maidstone.
England's Paul Casey beat Wales' Jamie Donaldson, while Ireland's Shane Lowry beat Scotland's Stephen Gallacher 3&2.
Other winners on day one were Joost Luiten, Thongchai Jaidee, Jonas Blixt and Victor Dubuisson.
Having successfully partnered McDowell to two foursome wins in Europe's recent Ryder Cup success, Frenchman Dubuisson matched McDowell's run of four birdies in the opening six holes as he overcame Spaniard Pablo Larrazabal 3&2.
Another Ryder Cup winner, Sweden's Henrik Stenson, halved with South African George Coetzee.
The 16 competitors, divided into four groups of four, play three group matches each on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before Saturday's quarter-finals and Sunday's semi-finals and final.
"There are no easy matches. You can't take anyone lightly, especially a guy who won last week, so I'm very happy to get the victory," said McDowell.
"It's important to control your own destiny in the group stages - you don't want to be relying on other people."
Full World Match Play results and tables


Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal will compete for England's final two Champions League places as the Premier League season finishes on Sunday.

City will secure third spot by winning at Watford, while Liverpool will be guaranteed at least fourth by beating Middlesbrough.
But Arsenal can sneak into the top four if one of their rivals slip up and they beat Everton at the Emirates.
All 20 teams are in action, with every match kicking off at 15:00 BST.
So what are the big issues on the final day - and what is the latest team news?
Manchester City need a point at Watford to guarantee a top-four finish - but winning and finishing third will take them straight into next season's Champions League group stages.
The team in fourth place will go into a two-legged play-off in August, while whoever finishes fifth will receive a place in the Europa League.
With just six points separating Southampton, in eighth, and 16th-placed Watford, several teams also have the opportunity to improve their league position - and increase their share of Premier League prize money.
Burnley, for instance, could finish as low as 17th, earning £7.6m in prize money, or as high as 11th, which would be worth £19m - a difference of £11.4m.
Harry Kane looks set to win the Premier League Golden Boot, awarded to the competition's leading scorer, thanks to his four goals in Tottenham's 6-1 victory at Leicester on Thursday.
Spurs go to relegated Hull on Sunday with Kane on 26 league goals for the season, two clear of Everton's Romelu Lukaku.
Belgium striker Lukaku and Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez, third in the standings on 23 goals, will face each other at Emirates Stadium as they look to catch Kane.
No team has ever won 30 league matches in a 38-game top-flight season - but Chelsea will be the first to do so if they beat bottom club Sunderland at Stamford Bridge.
Antonio Conte's side secured the Premier League title - the club's fifth in 13 seasons - with a 1-0 victory at West Brom on 12 May, and will receive the trophy after Sunday's game.
Chelsea managed 29 league wins in a season, in 2004-05 and 2005-06, twice under Jose Mourinho.
Only two teams in the history of the English top division have achieved more - Tottenham won 31 games in 1960-61 and Liverpool 30 in 1978-79 - and they both did it in 42-match seasons.
Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Hull are all leaving the Premier League after finishing in the bottom three, but there will be individual farewells too.
Chelsea captain John Terry is set to end his 22-year stay at Stamford Bridge by playing his 717th game for the club.
At Watford, manager Walter Mazzarri will take charge for the final time, with his departure having been confirmed on Wednesday.
A number of other players may yet be turning out for their clubs for the final time, with the futures of Wayne Rooney, Ross Barkley, Romelu Lukaku, Michael Keane and Gylfi Sigurdsson among those in doubt.
One question that will not be answered tomorrow concerns the future of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger - who is out of contract this summer.
Asked on Friday if he would extend his 21-year reign, Wenger said only that his future would be decided at a board meeting to follow the FA Cup final against Chelsea on 27 May.
All games kick-off at 15:00 BST on Sunday
Arsenal v Everton
Aaron Ramsey is fit for Arsenal despite limping off against Sunderland in midweek with a thigh strain.
Defender Laurent Koscielny could again miss out because of a calf problem, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is sidelined by a hamstring injury.
Everton manager Ronald Koeman has no new injury concerns.
It remains to be seen whether the match will mark the final Everton appearance of Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley, whose futures at the club are in doubt.
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Burnley v West Ham
Burnley could welcome back Michael Keane, who has missed their past two games because of a calf injury.
Fellow centre-back Ben Mee is again set to miss out with a shin problem.
West Ham are without centre-back Winston Reid, who has had surgery to treat a knee injury, so 18-year-old Declan Rice may deputise.
Fellow defender Angelo Ogbonna, who returned to the match-day squad last weekend after three months out, is also available but lacks match fitness.
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Chelsea v Sunderland
Chelsea captain Gary Cahill and top scorer Diego Costa are among the players likely to be recalled by the champions after Antonio Conte made nine changes for Monday's win over Watford.
John Terry could made his 717th appearance for the Blues in his last game at Stamford Bridge as a player.
Relegated Sunderland will be without 11 injured players.
Defender Lamine Kone and midfielder Didier Ndong are the latest absentees because of dead legs.
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Hull City v Tottenham
Hull will be without Evandro, Harry Maguire and Abel Hernandez through injury.
They join Will Keane, Lazar Markovic, Ryan Mason, David Meyler and Moses Odubajo on the sidelines.
Tottenham await news on whether full-backs Kieran Trippier and Kyle Walker will be fit to return.
Christian Eriksen is likely to be recalled after being rested against Leicester on Thursday, while Filip Lesniak could start.
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Leicester City v Bournemouth
Leicester are again without defender Robert Huth, who is nursing a foot injury, but Andy King could return from a hamstring problem.
Wes Morgan, Danny Drinkwater, Molla Wague and Nampalys Mendy remain out.
Bournemouth could welcome back midfielders Dan Gosling and Andrew Surman after their respective calf and knee problems.
They are definitely without the injured Benik Afobe, while Lewis Cook is away with the England Under-20 side.
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Liverpool v Middlesbrough
Liverpool are hopeful forward Roberto Firmino will be fit to play on Sunday despite a muscle problem.
If he is unavailable then the Reds could select the same starting line-up that began the 4-0 win at West Ham.
Jurgen Klopp's side need a win to guarantee qualification for next season's Champions League.
Middlesbrough boss Steve Agnew may again be without Daniel Ayala, Gaston Ramirez and Victor Valdes because of injury.
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Manchester United v Crystal Palace
Manchester United goalkeeper Joel Pereira is expected to be given his Premier League debut on Sunday.
Demi Mitchell, Angel Gomes, Josh Harrop and Scott McTominay could make their senior bows, while Paul Pogba and Timothy Fosu-Mensah will play.
Marouane Fellaini and Chris Smalling have minor injuries and may be rested for the Europa League final.
James Tomkins should be fit for Crystal Palace after an ankle problem but Yohan Cabaye is a doubt because of a foot injury.
Andros Townsend will miss the game because of an Achilles injury, while Scott Dann is expected to be absent with a knee problem.
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Southampton v Stoke City
Southampton's Shane Long will miss out after breaking a bone in his foot at Middlesbrough last week.
Cedric Soares faces a fitness test after limping off in midweek and Ryan Bertrand is also a doubt.
Stoke's Marko Arnautovic is doubtful because of an elbow problem sustained in last weekend's defeat by Arsenal.
Ibrahim Afellay is still recuperating from knee surgery last month, while Stephen Ireland remains out with a long-term leg injury.
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Swansea City v West Brom
Swansea City have no new injury concerns for Sunday's game and Paul Clement could name the same side that beat Sunderland.
Striker Borja Baston faces a fitness test but Wayne Routledge is back in contention after hernia trouble.
West Brom are likely to be without winger Matt Phillips again as he is still nursing a hamstring injury.
Salomon Rondon and Gareth McAuley should both recover from respective hamstring and thigh problems.
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Watford v Manchester City
Watford could be without up to six central defenders, with Adrian Mariappa (knee) and Miguel Britos (calf) facing late fitness tests.
Sebastian Prodl is suspended while Christian Kabasele, Craig Cathcart and Younes Kaboul are all out injured.
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany should be fit despite being substituted during the 3-1 win over West Brom.
John Stones has also recovered from a groin strain and could replace Nicolas Otamendi in defence.
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The Football Association is prepared to make Gareth Southgate interim England manager for the start of their World Cup qualifying campaign as it begins a global search for Roy Hodgson's successor.

Hodgson resigned after four years as manager following the humiliating Euro 2016 last-16 loss to Iceland in Nice on Monday.
FA chief executive Martin Glenn, sitting alongside an emotional Hodgson in Chantilly, even suggested the search could take months - bringing Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger into the equation as he enters the final year of his contract at Emirates Stadium.
Glenn, asked if England Under-21 boss Southgate could take charge for the opening qualifier against Slovakia in September, said: "We'll see.
"We'd like to get one for the first World Cup qualifier, but if we don't we have an interim plan in mind.
"We are not talking about names but it would be a pretty obvious one to pick."
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The selection process will be led by Glenn, FA board member David Gill and technical director Dan Ashworth - and they plan to conduct a widespread consultation process before narrowing down the contenders.
Glenn said: "It's such an important decision. We have got to get the right person. To wait a few months - if that's what we had to do - would be the right decision.
"You might get a few interim solutions, where a few managers come to help."
Wenger would be a prime candidate if the FA could tempt him - so would the FA wait a year for any manager, not necessarily the Arsenal boss, to see out a deal?
Glenn said the FA would not delay that long if it jeopardised the World Cup qualifying campaign, but added: "It would be unlikely. A lot of things can happen in a year which may undo your plans.
"So what I am saying is it is hypothetical. I wouldn't rule it out but I would say it would be less likely."
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Glenn also refused to restrict the search to English coaches and insisted choosing a foreign coach would not impact on the production of home-grown players.
"It has to be the best person for the job," he said.
"You have to make trade-offs. If there were the perfect English manager you would pick them. I am not sure there is, but we would take a good look and make a rational assessment.
"The Premier League clubs all want home-grown players to get through because it makes financial sense. If I were to pick a foreign coach I don't think that would change anything materially or somehow lose face."
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He was backed by outgoing manager Hodgson, who said: "I don't have a problem with it. It would be very hypocritical of me to do so having been coach of Switzerland, Finland and the United Arab Emirates.
"I think I should be the last person to say it's got to be a national. It's got to be the best person.
"I think it would be nice if it was an Englishman. I have been proud as an Englishman to do the job and I have had a lot of support from the general public as an Englishman - but Martin will have to find the best person available."
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A 76-year-old former soldier will stand trial over the death of a vulnerable man in 1974, a judge has ruled.

Dennis Hutchings, who lives in Cornwall, is due to be formally charged with attempted murder on Friday.
John Patrick Cunningham, 27, who had learning difficulties, was shot in the back as he ran away from an Army patrol near Benburb in County Armagh.
Mr Hutchings and another soldier had both fired their guns but it is not known who fired the fatal bullet.
During earlier hearings, the court was also told that Mr Hutchings - referred to as Soldier A - and the now deceased Soldier B had discharged a total of five shots.
Mr Hutchings' legal team argued that "no reasonable jury could convict" either soldier as being the one who fired the fatal shot.
However, the prosecution said Mr Hutchings - who was in charge of the Army patrol that day - fired three shots, and that he failed to give a correct warning to Mr Cunningham.
Announcing his decision, Mr Justice Treacy said the evidence indicated a case sufficient to justify putting the defendant on trial for attempted murder.
Mr Hutchings, who was excused from attending Belfast Crown Court, is expected to return to Northern Ireland later this week.
Mr Cunningham was described in court as an innocent, vulnerable and unarmed man who had a fear of people in uniform, including soldiers, policemen and priests.
He was shot dead in a field in Carrickaness Road, as he ran away from soldiers who stopped their Land Rover in the area and followed him into the field.


Palmer Luckey, the founder of VR firm Oculus, has left the company.

Mr Luckey was closely associated with the rise to prominence of Oculus and its VR headset which finally went on sale in early 2016.
Facebook, which owns Oculus, gave no details about why Mr Luckey left the firm or what he planned to do next.
His departure caps a troubled period for Oculus which lost a $500m (Â£400m) court case against media firm Zenimax which said it stole trade secrets.
The court case was partly brought about because Zenimax accused Mr Luckey of violating a non-disclosure agreement he signed with the firm in 2014.
Facebook and Oculus have appealed against the damages award.
"Palmer will be dearly missed," said Facebook in a statement given to tech news site Ars Technica.
It said that his "inventive spirit" helped to "kickstart" recent interest in VR and get the industry going. It said it wished him well in future ventures.
No personal statement from Mr Luckey about his future plans has yet appeared.
Mr Luckey had been the public face of Oculus since 2012 and regularly gave presentations at industry events about VR's potential.
However, he became a controversial figure last year when it emerged that he had partly bankrolled a group behind a social media campaign helping Donald Trump's presidential bid.
Widespread criticism of his involvement with the pro-Trump group prompted Mr Luckey to apologise for the effect the revelation had had on perceptions of Oculus.
The publicity meant Mr Luckey appeared far less often at Oculus events. He was entirely absent from the company's flagship Connect conference last year.
As founder and major shareholder of Oculus, Mr Luckey received a significant payout when Facebook bought the company in 2014 for $2bn.


One of the Queen's chaplains has resigned after a row about reading from the Koran in a Glasgow church.

The Reverend Gavin Ashenden, a senior clergyman in the Church of England, left his position as chaplain in order to be free to criticise the move.
A passage from the Koran was read during an Epiphany service at St Mary's Cathedral in Glasgow earlier this month.
Mr Ashenden said the reading had caused "serious offence".
The cathedral has said it is standing by its decision.
St Mary's invited local Muslims, who also revere Jesus as a prophet, to join the service.
A student, Madinah Javed, read from the lectern in Arabic from the chapter of Maryam, or Mary.
The chapter tells the story of the birth of Christ to the virgin Mary, and includes the Islamic teaching that Jesus is not the son of God and should not be worshipped.
Mr Ashenden told BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme: "The problem with what happened in Glasgow was that, although it was presented as a way of building bridges and a way of educating people, it was done badly, in the wrong way, in the wrong place, in the wrong context.
"There are a number of members of the congregation who have written open letters complaining of the profound upset they experienced as people who are part of the Eucharistic community who had come to worship Christ."
The cathedral's provost, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, has said readings of the Koran in the cathedral were part of efforts to build relationships between Christians and Muslims in Glasgow.
He said: "Such readings have happened a number of times in the past in this and in other churches and have led to deepening friendships locally, to greater awareness of the things we hold in common and to dialogue about the ways in which we differ."
Asked if he had known what the Koran verse specifically said about Jesus, Mr Holdsworth declined to comment further.


Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe feels his midfield needs more "beef" ahead of its first Premier League season.

The Cherries manager says his summer spending is not finished despite already bringing in six new players.
Howe also has concerns over an injury to midfielder Harry Arter, which could rule him out of their top-flight opener at home to Aston Villa on 8 August.
"I'm aware we need to beef up in certain areas, but if not, I believe in the players we have already," he said.
Arter, 25, has been absent from pre-season training since sustaining hip and groin injuries while playing for the Republic of Ireland against England in June.
"Hopefully Harry will not be out for too long," Howe added. "We've had some positive news this week with his recovery.
"If he was to be out long-term, we would be left with four recognised central-midfielders, which could leave us light in that area."
Meanwhile, Bournemouth have agreed an undisclosed compensation figure with Blackburn Rovers for winger Joshua King.
The 23-year-old signed a three-year deal with the Cherries in May after rejecting a contract offer at Ewood Park.
Rovers were entitled to compensation for the Norway international under Fifa regulations as he is under the age of 24.


Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the right one.

After weeks of speculation about whether the Governor of the Bank of England would extend his time as its head in reaction to the referendum result, Mark Carney surprised many people in the City and in government by announcing a decision that few had considered.
Although many officials at the Bank believed that Mark Carney had two options before him - stay until 2021 or leave as originally intended in 2018 - the governor proffered a third.
Extend, yes, but for just one more year.
Superficially, it appeared to be a rather awkward fudge.
Did Mr Carney feel under political pressure not to extend until 2021 despite wanting to?
Was he so disillusioned by the gloomy economic predictions for the UK that he would rather not stick around to see the full effects of the Brexit vote?
Or was there another issue weighing on his mind: how his family would feel about another three years in the UK with a father who is regularly away at some global summit or other one weekend in every two?
The third, it appears, was the clincher.
When Mr Carney took office in 2013, the notion that Britain would be beginning the difficult process of negotiating its way out of the European Union three years later (a process described by the former head of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, as something akin to "taking an egg out of omelette"), was a remote one.
But that all changed on 23 June.
Beyond trying to stabilise the economy, it also created a personal issue for the Governor.
If he left in 2018 as originally agreed, it would be right in the middle of Britain's exit negotiations.
Should he, therefore, extend his term to the full eight years that governors would usually be expected to serve?
That might provide a greater level of certainty for jittery markets.
And the Governor certainly understood the challenge of the job had changed, telling those close to him that an extension was an option and he "wanted to serve" - discussions which led to predictions in the media he would serve the full eight years.
But, a number of weeks ago in far more private discussions, he started talking about a "third way" - the short extension.
The reasons were personal and unique.
In 2018, one of Mr Carney's four daughters will be finishing her A-levels, and another will be completing her GCSEs.
Like everyone, I have personal circumstances that I have to manage. This is a role that requires total attention and devotion. I intend to give that for as long as I can.
For his family, this was the perfect moment to return home to Canada and its much lauded education system.
He hinted at how important that was in evidence to the economic affairs committee of the House of Lords last week.
"To be absolutely clear, it is an entirely personal decision," he said about whether he would extend his stay.
"No one should read anything into that decision as regards government policy - actual, imagined, potential, past. It is an absolute privilege for me to have this role. I fully recognise that.
"Like everyone, I have personal circumstances that I have to manage. This is a role that requires total attention and devotion. I intend to give that for as long as I can. Those are the only factors."
Those around Mr Carney dismiss any notion of "tension" with the Prime Minister, who was certainly keen for the Governor to extend his period in office to 2021. However, Theresa May was clear that it was up to Mr Carney to make the decision.
Neither did criticism from those who believe the Bank's pre-referendum economic forecasts were too gloomy about the effects of a Brexit vote get under his skin, they add.
Professionally, Mr Carney was clear that it would difficult to leave in the teeth of the Brexit negotiations.
But, with his family leaving in 2018 as originally planned, he only felt able to extend his time in the UK by one year.
By then the Article 50 process of decoupling Britain from the EU should be complete. It will then be for a new Governor to plot Britain's economic future.


The White House has dismissed claims that the US paid a ransom to Iran in exchange for the release of five American prisoners.

The five prisoners were released in January in exchange for seven Iranians who were detained in the US for violating sanctions.
The exchange came as the US lifted international sanctions against Iran as part of the country's nuclear deal.
The US also airlifted $400m (£300.3m) worth of cash to Iran at the same time.
The Wall Street Journal reported that US officials sent an unmarked cargo plane loaded with Euros, Swiss, Francs and other currencies, suggesting that the payment may have been related to the release of five Americans, which included Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian.
But White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest denied the link, saying the payment settled a longstanding dispute between the two countries from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Mr Earnest said Republicans who oppose the landmark Iran nuclear deal have used the payment as a means of undermining the accord.
"They're struggling to justify their opposition to our engagement with Iran," he said at a White House press briefing.
After the world's six major powers announced they would lift sanctions against Iran as a part of the implementation of the historic landmark deal, Tehran and Washington also agreed to settle a number of disputes between the two countries.
As Mr Earnest said in a press briefing on 19 January, the $400m (£300.3m) payment was "the result of a long-running claims process that had been at The Hague".
The then-Iranian government had purchased $400m (£300.3m) in US military equipment before it was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The Obama administration had agreed to repay Tehran $1.7bn, which included the original payment as well as interest.
Since Iran's financial institutions were completely cut off from the global electronic banking system at the time of the payment, it had to be made in cash.
The sanctions also meant it was illegal to make the payment in US dollars.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter to blame his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for the payment.
Though Mrs Clinton is credited with initiating talks for Iran's nuclear deal, the accord was reached under current Secretary of State John Kerry.
Republican National Committee spokesman Reince Priebus also released a statement on the report.
"The Obama-Clinton foreign policy not only means cutting a dangerous nuclear deal with the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, it also means paying them a secret ransom with cargo planes full of cash," the statement read.
State Department spokesman John Kirby responded to the claims on Wednesday, vehemently denying any link.
"As we've made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim at the Hague Tribunal were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home," he said.
"Not only were the two negotiations separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side, including, in the case of the Hague claims, by technical experts involved in these negotiations for many years," Mr Kirby said.


Police are hunting for two men who carried out a "cowardly attack" on a Denbighshire nightclub owner as he arrived home for the evening.

North Wales Police said the pair were waiting for the businessman after he left the Fusion club on Rhyl's West Parade on Saturday.
They demanded money from their victim after confronting him at Violet Grove in the town at about 04:30 BST.
The nightclub owner needed hospital treatment as a result of the assault.
"This was a cowardly attack on a local businessman. It is fortunate that he has not sustained more serious injuries," said Det Insp Chris Bell.
Officers said they want to speak to anyone who may have any information about the attack, or who saw people acting suspiciously outside the nightclub or Violet Grove at the time.


Charities are to be forced to draw up written agreements showing how vulnerable people will be protected from aggressive fundraising tactics, the prime minister has said.

David Cameron said the actions of some fundraisers were damaging the reputation of the charity sector.
The changes will be introduced in amendments to the Charities Bill.
Fundraising methods have come under scrutiny since the death of poppy seller Olive Cooke, 92, in May.
An inquest found Mrs Cooke, from Bristol, had received 267 charity letters in one month, leading to suggestions that the hounding for money pushed her to take her own life. Her family insist the charities were not to blame.
The prime minister said: "Our charities undertake vital work, bringing communities together and providing support to some of the most vulnerable members of our society.
"But the conduct of some fundraisers used by them is frankly unacceptable and damages the reputation of the sector as a whole, which is why we're introducing a new law to make sure charities raise funds in the right sort of way."
The conduct of charity fundraisers is under scrutiny like never before following the death of Britain's oldest poppy seller - 92-year-old Olive Cooke.
Thought to have taken her own life, she had been exhausted by requests for money from charities, according to a friend, and had set up 27 direct debits to make donations - although her granddaughter told an inquest that letters seeking money were not a factor in her death.
The issue, and an investigation into fundraisers' call centres by the Mail on Sunday, has attracted the attention of ministers.
Now a new law will oblige charities and organisations that raise money on their behalf to state in their contracts how vulnerable people are to be protected and there will be a review to consider whether further action is needed. Fundraising bodies have already pledged to strengthen protections.
Under the new rules, charities with incomes of more than Â£1m will set out in their trustees' annual report their fundraising approach.
This will include the use of professional fundraising agencies, as well as steps to prevent inappropriate fundraising from vulnerable people, such as the elderly and people with Alzheimer's.
The legislation would also require all professional fundraisers to set out in their agreements with charities what steps they are taking to protect vulnerable people from high-pressure tactics.
Minister for Civil Society Rob Wilson said the new laws would have "some impact on charities" but they should understand that the "loss of revenue will come if these scandals continue to go on".
He warned that a failure to respond could result in full regulation of the charity sector, which "would incur big costs for charities".
He added that the government has also set up a review panel to look at measures to stop fundraisers finding "ways around the system". The panel will report by September.
Kate Schofield from Huddersfield told BBC Radio Four's Today programme she received about 30 calls after donating to a well-known charity by text message.
"I answered a TV charity appeal for Syrian refugees and donated via text. It was not long after that I started receiving quite a lot of cold calls and this went on and on.
"I actually ended up getting about 30 or 40 phone calls from them. They were not even starting to take "no" for an answer so it did start feeling like harassment.
"After about a couple of weeks, I was on holiday. I was getting about 10 phone calls a day.
"I was ignoring them because it was going to cost me a lot of money to answer them. But I did feel like every time I looked at my phone there was a missed call from the same number."
Sir Stuart Etherington, chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), is to conduct the review to decide whether more powers are required.
"For every challenge we face, there is a charity that will help - be that facing cancer or saving our precious green spaces," he said.
"They are able to do this because of the trust, confidence and overwhelming generosity of the British people.
"We simply cannot allow aggressive fundraising tactics to damage this trust. Charities must maintain the highest standards, including taking a firm grip on how the agencies they employ are interacting with the public," Sir Stuart added.
Leading UK charities Oxfam, the Salvation Army and Save the Children have welcomed the prime minister's proposals.
Tanya Steele of Save the Children said their supporters were their lifeblood and the sector had to improve to strengthen faith and trust.
Oxfam chief executive Mark Goldring said the British public were "amazingly generous" and he hoped a balance could be found so people could give without receiving unwanted calls.
Last month, Oxfam suspended operations with a call centre after claims in the Mail on Sunday that Listen Ltd staff used high-pressure fundraising techniques.
The company said it trained employees in accordance with regulators' requirements and would investigate.


Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers says his side now approach Champions League qualifying ties with "no fear".

A 6-0 aggregate win over Linfield ensured the Scottish Premiership champions progressed to face Rosenborg in this year's third qualifying round.
Celtic reached the group stages last season, but not without dramas against Astana and Hapoel Be'er Sheva.
"A year down the line, we go into these games with real confidence," Rodgers told BBC Scotland.
"We expect to play well and work hard.
"There are always tense games, but we're home first, we want to push and see if we can take a lead to Rosenborg. It will be tough."
Celtic carried a 2-0 first-leg lead into the game against Linfield at Celtic Park, and added to their advantage after just four minutes through Scott Sinclair.
The home side dominated the game, but spurned chances and found Linfield goalkeeper Roy Carroll in good form.
Celtic's high-tempo play was eventually rewarded, with Tom Rogic, Sinclair again, and substitute Stuart Armstrong scoring in the second half.
"We played well, our positioning in the game was much better than the first leg," Rodgers said.
"We spoke about that building into the game, we got in between them. The counter-pressing to win the ball back was excellent.
"Across the two legs, 95% of the game was probably played in the final third. Roy Carroll has made some incredible saves, but we get four goals, upped our fitness, and showed some fantastic moments of football throughout."
Olivier Ntcham, Celtic's £4.5m signing from Manchester City, made his debut and was impressive in midfield alongside captain Scott Brown.
"It's just time [that Ntcham needs]," Rodgers said. "It's such a  long season and we don't want to break anyone at this period.
"He's been in for a week and a half. We're trying to build a squad for a lot of games, and he's top-class. He'll get fitter as the season goes on."
Rodgers visited the Linfield dressing room after Wednesday's game to speak to the visiting players.
"It's never easy coming here, we've seen other teams suffer," the Celtic manager said. "I'm very much Northern Irish and I always like to see my fellow guys do well.
"They've fought over two legs and they've had an experience that will live with them for the rest of their lives."


The main complaint about Wednesday's Budget is not so much its contents, it's that it's effectively the fourth in 12 months.

Part of this was unavoidable. The election came close after the March Budget.
The new Conservative government wanted to set out a new economic stall and it did so in the July Budget.
Then it had a November Spending Review and Autumn Statement. And now this.
The Autumn Statement is not meant to be a Budget, but anyone glancing at what it did  - a climb down on tax credits, spending cuts, stamp duty increases, an apprenticeship levy and an extension of the Help to Buy scheme -  would be hard pressed to tell the difference.
Julian McCrae, Deputy Director of think tank the Institute for Government says: "Osborne said that he would have one proper Budget and then the Autumn Statement would 'foreshadow' it. But it's not worked out like that. These things have a dynamic of their own. They grow. In a sense they are unstoppable."
And they have reached a prodigious size. Mr McCrae counted 77 measures in Wednesday's Budget, which he thinks is close to a record, although he thinks some of Gordon Brown's Budgets may have come close.
He said: "That is a huge amount of work. 77 things that have to be worked through, 77 things that have to be planned and thought out and put into action."
Giles Wilkes agrees. He is a former special advisor to Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the Coalition government. He told Radio 4's PM show: "From the policy making point of view, policy gets much, much worse when you have a Budget or an Autumn Statement.
"It's a time when the Treasury takes control pretty much of the whole government. Everything gets settled in last minute arguments.
"There's a huge appetite for gimmicks and showy things so the more Budgets you have probably the worse your government policy is, so the last twelve months haven't been good from that point of view"
Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies thinks the problem is deeply ingrained in government: "There's a problem with the way we make tax and economic policy because it is all done in secret, sprung on us all at once, twice a year.
"We have too many of these and we do them in the wrong way."
The government has a legal duty to publish two economic forecasts each year. The temptation is that, having done so, it should announce some kind of response.
In fact the months since November have seen dramatic changes in the global economic climate with the Office for Budget Responsibility saying the outlook is "materially weaker".
The Chinese economy slowed dramatically, and the markets had a wild ride through the first two months of the year. It had a direct effect on government policy - for instance market volatility forced the chancellor to put off the sale of the government's remaining stake in Lloyds Bank.
When the economic weather is so unpredictable surely government should respond as and when it can.
Mr McCrae doesn't think that is what the Budget is about: "The chancellor said that things had got worse in the global economy, and in response he said he was going to reduce spending in 2019/20 by Â£3.5bn to, as he puts it, live within his means.
"He didn't say where he was going to make the cuts. He said he would set up a review. The rest of the speech was on the sugar tax and education and so on - not to do with the economic forecast.
"It was not driven by an update on the economic forecast. The world changes and you need to respond but the Budget goes way, way beyond that."
Budgets also create a huge workload not just for government but for businesses.
Niki Dixon, business tax director at accountancy firm Deloitte said its clients hated it; "It's awful. If my clients had one request it would be to be able to plan with certainty. All this constant change makes it so much harder to plan, say five years ahead, when your biggest annual event is your tax bill.
"For instance the increase in the dividend tax due on the 1st April means that most of my business clients have to work out how much they can afford to pay and the Budget obviously creates distortions."
So why does it happen? In the end it seems it's more about politics than economics. As Giles Wilkes says: "It gives you a great chance to pull lots of levers and get lots of attention."
But the final irony is that there is precious little evidence that Budgets do anything for the government's (or the chancellor's) standing in the polls.
Mr McCrae said: "Chancellors seem to think they are popular events but look at the polling figures and Budgets make very little difference to popularity.
"You are taking a big risk standing up and coming out with an economic policy and it can go badly wrong. But the thing about chancellors is - they like to think they are setting the agenda."


Prosecutors will be urged to push for tougher sentences for people committing hate crimes, following a rise in incidents after the EU referendum.

A £2.4m fund will also be set up for security measures at places of worship.
A rise in reported hate crimes following the Brexit vote has prompted concerns about a wave of xenophobic and racial abuse.
The Home Office said its action plan aimed to encourage people to report offences and boost support for victims.
Prosecutors will be issued with fresh guidance on racially and religiously aggravated offences.
They will also be encouraged to push for tougher sentences by urging courts to use existing powers to increase penalties in hate crime cases.
It is hoped this will improve confidence in the CPS's response to such crimes and in turn, boost reporting rates.
The Home Office said it will also be targeting work to prevent hate crime on public transport and tackle attacks on Muslim women.
Figures released last week showed more than 6,000 alleged hate crimes and incidents were reported to police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in four weeks from the middle of last month.
The daily rate peaked at 289 on 25 June, the day after the referendum result was announced.
The main type of offence reported over the month was "violence against the person", which includes harassment and common assault, as well as verbal abuse, spitting and "barging".
And Crown Prosecution Service figures released earlier this month showed it was prosecuting a record number of hate crimes.
The CPS prosecuted 15,442 such crimes in 2015-16 - a 4.8% rise on the previous year. There were 13,032 prosecutions for racially and religiously aggravated hate crime, with a conviction rate of 83.8%.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "Hatred directed against any community, race or religion has no place whatsoever in our diverse society and it needs to be kicked to the kerb.
"At a time of increased concerns about a climate of hostility towards people who have come to live in our country, let me be absolutely clear that it is completely unacceptable for people to suffer abuse or attacks because of their nationality, ethnic background or colour of their skin.
"We will not stand for it."


Torquay United captain Angus MacDonald has benefitted from player-manager Kevin Nicholson's decision not to play himself, says the Gulls boss.

Nicholson has left himself out of the side for the last two games, both of which Torquay have won.
"I've noticed from my captain that he's stepped forward and become the voice on the pitch," Nicholson told BBC Sport.
"I've seen a lot more communication from him, and lot more geeing up of the players."
Left-back Nicholson had been a fixture in the Gulls' defence since rejoining Torquay as manager at the end of September.
"Maybe with me being on the pitch they all look and think 'he's the manager, he needs to do the talking'," added Nicholson.
"With me being on the side, and no matter how loud I shout I can't hit the opposite side of the pitch, Gus has taken that mantle now as skipper and it's nice to see.
"It's interesting being on the side - so far so good - but I enjoy playing so if I can work my way back in I'll try."


Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said he will continue in his job after undergoing treatment for skin cancer.

Mr Noonan said he had a sarcoma removed from his right shoulder last Wednesday.
It followed five weeks of radiotherapy in March and April at St Luke's Hospital in Dublin.
He said: "My medical team believe the treatment has gone very well and are upbeat about the prognosis. There is no damage to my shoulder muscle."
The 71-year-old said the "risk of recurrence is low".
The minister said he had first noticed a lump on his right arm in February.
Mr Noonan was discharged from the Cappagh Hospital on Saturday.


Prison units that hold the most dangerous inmates are managed with "impressive care and humanity" - but living conditions need improving, the chief inspector of prisons has said.

Nick Hardwick visited close supervision centres, which hold about 60 men in eight prisons in England and Wales.
He said the system was "basically well run", but also found prisoners could barely see daylight from cells and exercised in yards resembling "cages".
Bosses said improvements would be made.
Mr Hardwick praised staff for their care of the men, which he described as "impressive" considering how difficult the prisoners held in such centres were.
But as part of the inspection focusing on living conditions, it was found that prisoners could see no unobstructed daylight from their cells.
One prisoner described his unit as "like a submarine".
Close supervision centres (CSC) hold the most dangerous inmates in the prison system - many of whom have committed further, very serious offences in prison. They are sometimes referred to as a "prison within a prison".
The system was set up in 1998 and deals with prisoners subject to prison rule 46, which allows them to be detained away from other inmates because of the risk they pose.
Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons describes the system as "extreme custody" whose management raises "complex operational challenges and profound ethical issues".
The centres have capacity for 60 men, and a further 14 in similar but slightly less restrictive conditions, and are by a centralised team within the prison service.
Prisoners are held in designated CSC cells or segregation units within larger prisons, such as Belmarsh and Full Sutton, and are highly supervised.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Mr Hardwick said the exercise yards - with grilles overhead - were "grim, dehumanising" and "unacceptably oppressive". Some prisoners were only allowed to talk to visiting relatives through a barred window.
Last November one prisoner attacked another, causing an acute brain injury and a three-month stay in hospital.
But Mr Hardwick said that, overall, violence in close supervision centres was low.
He said staff leadership of the system as a whole was "clear, principled and courageous", but expressed concern about the mental health of the prisoners, because of the tightly-controlled conditions they were kept in.
"Given the restricted nature of the regimes offered and most men's inability to move out of the units, more needed to be done to offset the real potential for psychological deterioration by the more imaginative provision of both in and out of cell activities," the report, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons, urged.
"The reasons why a disproportionate number of black and minority ethnic and Muslim men were held in the system needed to be better understood, and action taken to address any identified issues of unfairness."
Michael Spurr, chief executive of the MoJ's National Offender Management Service, said the inspectorate had concluded the close supervision centres were well-run.
"I echo his praise for the courage and professionalism of staff who work every day with exceptionally dangerous individuals," he said.
"Managing such prisoners humanely and safely whilst providing opportunities for progression is a complex and difficult task. We will use the recommendations in the report to make further improvements in the system but staff can be extremely proud of the work they do."


Twin aye-ayes - an endangered species of lemur - have been born in captivity at Bristol Zoo for the first time.

Described as a "world first" by the zoo, the twins were born on 10 June but are still too young to be sexed.
Once thought to be extinct, the aye-aye is classified as endangered by conservationists and experts say there may be as few as 1,000 left.
A zoo spokeswoman said: "Their mother was very secretive and we didn't realise she'd had twins straight away."
She said: "It's a world first, so it wasn't what we were expecting but it's amazing, really amazing.
"We wanted to monitor them and make sure they were putting on weight before we announced their arrival."
Found on the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, the first aye-aye bred in captivity in Britain was a female called Kintana who was hand-reared by keepers at Bristol Zoo in 2005.
In 2008, the second of the species born in Britain - Raz - was also hand-reared by keepers at the zoo.
Assistant curator of mammals, Lynsey Bugg, said the twins' mother Sabrina was doing a "great job with her young".
"The twins are physically demanding and it is testament to Sabrina that she and the twins appear to be doing really well," she said.
"Whilst we are keeping a close eye on the group, we try to adopt a hands-off approach and encourage a family dynamic close to one they would experience in the wild."


The coroner has named the soldier who shot dead a south Armagh man in Belfast in 1971.

Paratrooper Sgt Allan McVitie, who has since died, fired two shots that killed Henry Thornton outside the Springfield Road police station.
The 29-year-old victim's van had backfired and the soldier thought it was an attack.
Coroner Brian Sherrard had previously found the killing was "not necessary, reasonable or proportionate".
On Wednesday he lifted an anonymity order that had prevented Mr McVitie's identity being revealed to Belfast Coroner's Court.
He said the paratrooper ran after the van with the "honestly held belief" that shots had been fired at the police station.
But he said the soldier's decision to open fire was not justified and, even if the occupants had been armed there were non-fatal options open to Sgt McVitie.
Mr Thornton was an unarmed civilian who had no connection to any paramilitary group.
In 2012, the government wrote a letter of apology to Mr Thornton widow, Mary, confirming that her husband had been an "innocent man".
There was sustained rioting in west Belfast following his death.
The killings of 10 people who were shot dead by the army, in a period later known by the victims' families as the Ballymurphy Massacre, began two days later.


French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has vowed to stamp out nepotism as staff abandon his rival Francois Fillon over an investigation into payments to his wife.

Unveiling his manifesto, the former banker said he would ban politicians from employing relatives.
Mr Fillon has lost key staff, and some senators have demanded a new candidate.
Polls suggest Mr Macron will face Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front in the second round of voting.
Mr Fillon, of the Republicans party, had previously led the opinion polls but his popularity has been hit by allegations - now being investigated by a judge - that he paid his Welsh-born wife Penelope hundreds of thousands of euros for work she did not carry out.
On Wednesday Mr Fillon refused to end his campaign and complained he was the victim of a "political assassination". That led to the resignation of Mr Fillon's foreign affairs spokesman, Bruno Le Maire.
And his campaign suffered new setbacks on Thursday, with the resignation of the deputy campaign director, Sebastien Lecornu, and adviser Vincent Le Roux, along with a number of more junior staff.
The centrist UDI party announced on Wednesday that it was suspending its support, pending a final decision next week.
Unveiling his manifesto, Mr Macron also said he would reduce the number of parliamentary seats and introduce term limits on elected members to "eradicate conflicts of interest".
Mr Macron, who is fighting his first election campaign, does not have a political party and describes his "En Marche" organisation as a movement.
He said he wanted France to rediscover its "spirit of conquest" and set out policies to tackle unemployment, abolish residence tax for most French households and make retirement conditions the same for everyone.
Other policies in the manifesto (in French) include banning the use of mobile phones in primary and secondary schools, forcing big internet companies to pay tax on their business activities in France and cutting corporation tax to 25% from its current level of 33.3%.
He told reporters he would sell up to â‚¬10bn ($10.6bn; Â£8.6bn) worth of government shares in large companies in which the state does not hold a majority.
There were also plans to tackle social exclusion in poor immigrant suburbs. Mr Macron said he would reduce school class sizes, set up grants to help young people find jobs, incentivise companies to hire them and improve relations between young people and the police.
Mr Macron called for an international "roadmap" to fight Islamic extremism in the Middle East and Africa and said he would increase military spending to 2% of GDP, as the US and other Nato allies have demanded.
He described Africa as the global region that presented the "greatest risk and opportunity" to France.
He also said the remaining 27 EU member states had to defend the single market in Brexit talks. He urged efforts to reinvigorate the eurozone and called for closer European co-operation.
Ms Le Pen has said she wants to pull France out of the euro, but not the EU.
The first round of the French presidential election will be held on 23 April. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote a second round between the two top candidates will be held on 7 May.


Immigration is "right at the top" of the concerns of people in Northern Ireland, according to UKIP.

Speaking at Stormont during a manifesto launch for the general election David McNarry said it was a much bigger issue than Europe.
The party is fielding 10 candidates in the general election.
Mr McNarry, the party's leader in Northern Ireland, said people had concerns about housing, health and schools but mainly immigration.
"Immigration is a bigger issue here in Northern Ireland than people would think and people are really concerned about immigration; concerned about the influx of people coming in here taking up room in schools, adding to hospital waiting lists etc so there's a big understanding exercise has got to be done as well," he said.
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"Europe not so much at the moment but immigration right at the top."
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A musical lightning generator and four harp-playing pendulums were among the custom-made instruments unveiled by Bjork as she opened her world tour.

The Icelandic singer performed the first date of her Biophilia tour on Thursday to launch the Manchester International Festival.
The festival specialises in staging music, theatre and art premieres.
Bjork's concert also involved a 24-piece all-female Icelandic choir and a voice-over from Sir David Attenborough.
With voluminous ginger hair and a purple robe, Bjork gave the first full performance of songs from her forthcoming album Biophilia.
It is a concept album about nature with songs inspired by such themes as DNA, tectonic plates and crystals.
The concert's opening song Thunderbolt featured two Tesla coils - electrical columns that shoot out small bolts of lightning to generate musical notes.
Four "gravity harps" were made from 10ft (3m) pendulums that plucked strings as they swung back and forth during a song about gravity.
Other newly-invented instruments included a "sharpsichord", a large cylinder with protruding pins that played a harpsichord as they were turned, and a "gameleste", a kind of piano that had been adapted so glockenspiel-style bronze bars were struck as notes were played.
Bjork approached Sir David Attenborough to take part after drawing inspiration for the album from his natural history programmes. She recently said he was her "rock star" when she was growing up.
The singer watched hundreds of video clips from his landmark shows to get inspiration for her songs and concert visuals.
The story of so-called zombie snails, which are invaded by parasites and were seen in Sir David's Trials Of Life series, has been incorporated into one song.
Footage of three-foot worms and carnivorous starfish feasting on a seal carcass at the bottom of the Antarctic, from the Life series, was shown on screens during the show.
Sir David recorded his introductory voice-over hours before the concert on Thursday. "He's been a constant source of inspiration for the project," the Biophilia project co-ordinator James Merry said.
The concert took place in front of 1,800 fans in a Victorian former fruit and vegetable market, which has more recently been used to store a Spitfire aeroplane and other items from the Museum of Science and Industry.
Bjork has said she wants Biophilia to be a multi-media experience combining music, technology and nature.
As well as a standard album and tour, the project involves a series of iPad and iPhone applications that let fans play with and create their own versions of the songs.
The apps also include a brand new system of musical notation devised by Bjork as well as academic essays explaining the ideas behind the tracks.
She will now play two shows a week at Campfield Market Hall for the next three weeks before taking the show to eight cities around the world over the coming two years.
Thursday's concert opened the third Manchester International Festival, which aims to put the city on the global cultural map by hosting new works by respected performers.
The festival began in 2007 and takes place every two years.
This year's other highlights include an opera by Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn. Dr Dee, which tells the story of 16th Century alchemist, astrologer and spy John Dee, opens on Friday.
Victoria Wood is staging a new musical play about a 1920s Manchester children's choir, while performance artist Marina Abramovic and theatre company Punchdrunk are also showcasing original productions.


An ultra-marathon runner has finally been able to return to Edinburgh with a dog who "adopted" him during a race in China.

Gobi the dog had joined Dion Leonard on a 250km (155 mile) run across the Gobi desert in June.
They became inseparable before the dog suddenly went missing.
They were reunited in August and Gobi finally joined Mr Leonard in flying back to Scotland on Tuesday.
The story of Dion and Gobi first captured hearts when news spread about how Gobi had followed him through his run across mountain and desert areas across China.
When the dog vanished, an online campaign was launched to find and eventually reunite her with her new owner.
Australian-born Mr Leonard said: "There were times when I just didn't think it was going to happen. I never really pictured the moment of walking through the door because I didn't want to believe it until it actually happened. So it was such a surreal event...after all this time.
"She has settled in very quickly. She has gotten to know our cat - they seem to be getting on pretty well which is good. We all slept together in the same bed last night and there was no fighting, so everything is pretty good.
"Today we went for a run at Arthur's Seat which is just about two blocks from my house. That was the first time we had been running properly in the mountains since she joined me on the second day of the race back in June.
"She just had that spring in her step and was keen to get going. We only did five miles but it was just so cool to be doing that again with her, just knowing what we'd gone through and now being back here in my own back yard was just amazing."
Mr Leonard added: "I made Gobi a promise and told her I was going to bring her to the UK, and I am just so glad we got through the ups and down. We've battled through things to get here and that's the most important thing.
"I wouldn't have changed a thing other than the part where she went missing, although we could have done without all the grief. That was the real low point of the whole journey.
"It was something that was really tough to take. Even now when I look back and see the imagery of when we found her again, and see the state she was in, it just breaks my heart.
"Seeing her now, growing the way she does in confidence, the way she walks around like she owns the street, she is just a completely different dog. She has still got that same resilience and determination.
"When we flew back, the whole journey took 41 hours and throughout the whole thing it was like it was us back at the race. She knew she had to go through it and she did what she had to do.
"I kept saying to her 'just believe in me, we're going to have a great life when we get up to Edinburgh'. And I'm looking forward to sharing that with her."


The White House has set up a taskforce to tackle the decline of honey bees.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the agriculture department will lead the effort, which includes $8m (Â£4.7m) for new honey bee habitats.
Bee populations saw a 23% decline last winter, a trend blamed on the loss of genetic diversity, exposure to certain pesticides and other factors.
A quarter of the food Americans eat, including apples, carrots and avocados, relies on pollination.
Honey bees add more than $15bn in value to US agricultural crops, according to the White House.
The decline in bee populations is also blamed on the loss of natural forage and inadequate diets, mite infestations and diseases.
There has also been an increase in a condition called colony collapse disorder (CCD) in which there is a rapid, unexpected and catastrophic loss of bees in a hive.
But other North American pollinators, like the monarch butterfly, have seen decreases in their populations as well.
Some environmental groups have criticised the president for not acting more directly, including taking action against neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides linked to bee deaths.
"The administration should prevent the release and use of these toxic pesticides until determined safe," Friends of the Earth president Erich Pica told Reuters.
In the plan announced on Friday, Mr Obama directed the EPA and the agriculture department to lead a government-wide task force to develop a strategy within six months to fight bee and other pollinator declines.
Also announced on Friday was funding for farmers and ranchers in five states - Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin - who establish new habitats for honey bee populations.


A business premises in Melrose has been badly damaged by a fire which police believe was started deliberately.

The blaze was discovered at McPhersons on St Dunstans Lane at about 22:00 on Saturday.
Police said no-one was in the building at the time.
Insp John Reid, of Police Scotland, said: "Early indications are that this fire was the result of a deliberate act and a full fire scene investigation will now take place."
He added: "I am appealing to anyone who may have been in the area of St Dunstans Lane last night to get in touch with Police Scotland at Melrose if they saw or heard anything which might help us in our inquiries into this fire.
"Thankfully no-one was in the building at the time however the building and contents have been seriously damaged as a result."


Labour's deputy leader has urged politicians across his party to "calm down", amid speculation about a possible leadership challenge.

Tom Watson told Sky News those who had elected Jeremy Corbyn "on a very large mandate" last September would not want to see him challenged months later.
"I hope that those MPs on all sides of this argument will pay heed to that," he said.
Recent reports say some Labour MPs are now set on trying to oust Mr Corbyn.
Two days ago, BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said a minority of MPs seemed more determined than ever to mount a challenge soon.
Our correspondent said tension in the party is heightening ahead of elections in May in Scotland, Wales, London and English local authorities, with Mr Corbyn's allies and critics each staking out their positions.
Labour's deputy leader said: "This is the great irony of politics in that there are people in the party who are trying to change the rules in order to try and protect Jeremy's position and they might just be precipitating a challenge to his leadership.
"Of course that's just not common sense and I hope those people who are holding those different point of views can calm down a bit.
In other comments, Mr Watson said he was "incredibly disappointed... and I know Jeremy is too" by Ken Livingstone's recent remarks that a hedge fund manager donating to Labour MP Dan Jarvis was like "Jimmy Savile funding a children's group".
"That was very unhelpful because what we're trying to do is make sure that all our members and our MPs stick to talking about policies and issues and don't slug it out with personal insults," Mr Watson said.
Mr Jarvis, whom some commentators see as a future Labour leader, has not responded to Mr Livingstone publically.
The hedge fund donor, Martin Taylor, said the former London mayor's remarks were "inflammatory and unfounded".


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Upsetting events often make the news because they don't happen very often.
This section gives you some tips about what to do if you are feeling sad about what you've seen, heard or read.
You can rely on Newsround to tell you the important facts about a story - but some things you hear might be a bit scary or make you feel worried.
Remember that worrying stories are often in the news because they are rare - they don't happen very often.
It is incredibly unlikely that what you're reading about or watching might happen near you.
Discuss the stories with your parents or friends. You'll feel better that you're not the only one worried.
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The theory that women get paid less than men because they are not sufficiently pushy in the workplace is not true, a new study suggests.

Women are as likely as men to ask for a pay rise - but are less likely to get one, the research found.
The study, by the Cass Business School and the universities of Warwick and Wisconsin, looked at 4,600 workers.
It found "no support" for the "reticent female" theory, whereby women avoided asking for more money.
For what it claimed was the first time, the study eliminated any impact from part-time workers earning less than their full-time counterparts, by comparing full-time males with full-time females, and part-time males with part-time females.
When like-for-like male and female workers were compared, men were 25% more likely to get a pay rise when they asked, the study found.
The research also concluded there was no evidence for the idea that women were reluctant to ask for a salary increase because they were more wary of upsetting their boss, or deviating from a perceived female stereotype.
When analysing the results, the researchers took into account the size of the employer and the industry, whether the workers were a parent, as well as their qualifications.
The study was based on data from the 2013-14 Australian workplace relations survey. Australia is thought to be the only country to systematically record whether employees had asked for a pay rise, and why they had or had not done so.
Andrew Oswald, professor of economics and behavioural science at the University of Warwick, said he was surprised by the findings.
"The fact that women don't ask for pay rises as often as men is a popular theory. It's a very common thing for women to say and believe, but all of the evidence is anecdotal, so it's very hard scientifically to do a proper test of this."
He said one possibility was that unsuccessful men who asked for a pay rise, but did not get it, kept it to themselves, while women "were more straightforward and tell their friends".
"Having seen these findings, I think we have to accept that there is some element of pure discrimination against women," Prof Oswald added.
"It could be that Australia is odd. But it's a modern industrial economy halfway in character between Britain and the US, so I think that's unlikely."
The study also found differences according to age, with women and men under 40 both asking for and receiving pay rises at the same rate, which the researchers said could mean that negotiating behaviour had started to change.
Dr Amanda Goodall from Cass Business School - part of City, University of London - and a co-author of the study, said: "The study potentially has an upside. Young women today are negotiating their pay and conditions more successfully than older females, and perhaps that will continue as they become more senior."


Notts County owner Alan Hardy has bought non-league side Ilkeston FC for an undisclosed fee.

Ilkeston FC were last month wound-up in the High Court, but Hardy has completed a deal from liquidators Smith Cooper.
Ex-Nottingham Forest defender Steve Chettle has been appointed as manager.
"Ilkeston Town will have its own corporate governance, with separate directors, financial structure and accountability," Hardy told the Notts website.
The Derbyshire club will play in the Midland Football League Division One as Ilkeston Town from next season, five levels below the Football League, with Hardy insisting there would be no conflict of interest.
He added: "Naturally, as would be the case between any professional and semi-professional football clubs, there will be an opportunity for transactions when it comes to such things as the loaning of players, sharing of expertise and so on.
"However, it is essential that any dealings between the two clubs are carried out with the best interests of their respective stakeholders in mind."
Ilkeston Town, then a Conference North club, folded in 2010 owing £50,000 to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The new club, Ilkeston FC, were admitted into the Northern Premier League Division One South for the 2011-12 season, playing at the same 3,029-capacity New Manor Ground as their predecessors.
But financial troubles overshadowed their season in 2016-17, culminating in them being wound-up.