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Who is a good role model for our teenage girls?

Girlguiding UK says a generation of young girls have no strong role models because they are obsessed with celebrities and realty TV stars.

They say girls are using characters from the reality TV show The Only Way is Essex as a blue print on how to live their lives, they are being encouraged to live a glitzy champagne lifestyle.

Many of the girls surveyed believe drinking and drug taking is acceptable and several of those surveyed admitted taking risks and pushing themselves beyond their comfort zones in order to feel accepted, they might drink alcohol or have underage sex.

There was a worrying lack of successful sportswomen and business women in the survey and when it came to their own career choices girls still dismissed jobs such as engineering as a "job for the boys".

Is there anyone out there that you can name who is a great role model for our young women today? Or is it all about instant fame and shallow aspirations ?

Who did you look up to when you were younger?

Are you on sleeping pills? If so, you are not alone.

There has been a sharp rise in the use of sleeping pills with the NHS spending nearly 拢50m last year.

Some 15.3 million prescriptions were handed out in 2010/11, compared with 14.5 million in 2007/08, according to NHS figures obtained by the Co-operative Pharmacy.

A Freedom of Information request revealed health trusts spent 拢49.2m on the drugs in 2010/11, up from 拢42m three years previously - an increase of more than 17%.

Are we becoming a nation addicted to sleeping pills?

We speak to insomnia expert, Dr Simon Merrit.

We hear your views and stories.

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