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"I'm your age, I care, and I'm listening." That's the message from a new group of "cyber-mentors", intent on stamping out bullying online.
 
Recent revelations over "sexting" - the sending of sexually explicit messages between young people - has highlighted the need for providing more support to young people online.
 
The new recruits - volunteers from across the UK aged 10-25 - were trained to give advice and offer support to bullied young people online.
 
Juliet Brown, a development officer at BeatBullying, told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme that typical online bullying is similar to that in real life, typically involving comments about being ugly or fat.
 
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The young victim of a racist bully in Lincolnshire says she will use her compensation money to launch an anti-bullying charity. The 14-year-old female victim now plans to use the compensation and money paid to her for media interviews to set up her own anti-bullying charity – called Don't Hate or Discriminate. The 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, bombarded the mixed race girl with racist taunts over a four-month period.In what is thought to be an unprecedented conviction, magistrates also ordered the boy to complete a six-month supervision order and to carry out 10 hours of indirect reparation – the equivalent of community service. Speaking to the Echo after the sentencing yesterday, the girl's mum spoke of her disappointment at the outcome. "He's got off lightly really," she said. "It's just like he's been told he's a naughty boy and has got a slap on the wrist. When I thought about what my daughter went through, I had hoped he would be sent to a young offenders' institution."

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