HT3529 deleting old contacts from messages

Can anyone help.
I have deleted some contacts from my contact list, but they still keep appearing each time I start a new text message when I type the first few letters of the contact name.
Is there a way of refreshing this list?
Thanks

There is already a discussion about this here.
Looks like the only way to resolve this is with a restore.

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