More than half of young people in the North have been asked for a sexual image or video of themselves by another person.

Teachers in the UK are to be issued with a guide on how to deal with ’sexting’ – the sharing of explicit photos or videos through mobile phones and the internet.

THE number of sickening internet sites showing the most severe forms of child sex abuse has quadrupled in just three years, a report said yesterday.

LAST week there was considerable alarm when a convicted paedophile escaped from Northern Ireland and headed South where he seemingly moved about freely even though the gardaí were notified of his presence.

MORE than 30,000 websites containing indecent images of children have been removed from the internet over the last 10 years, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said yesterday.

BRITISH Telecom says it is blocking up to 10,000 attempts each day to access child porn.

LEGENDARY rock guitarist Pete Townshend was incredibly foolhardy, naive and misguided to enter a website advertising child pornography if he was, as he says, conducting research, an internet watchdog claimed yesterday.