My iPhone 3GS keeps freezing when I try opening a text.

I have an iPhone 3GS which I updated to iOS 5 a few days ago.
The update has been fine up until now.
When I receive a text or email notification, I "slide to read" and as soon as I slide the button across to the right the iPhone freezes and I have to hold down the home button and lock button for it to restart.
It has done this 5 times now.
Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Try restoring the phone. Do a backup of your data on iTunes by syncing it to iTunes (or right click your iPhone and click backup) and then do a restore by clicking "restore". Do not disconnect the iPhone until it is done. After it is done, iTunes will prompt you if you want to restore from backup. Click your backup and let it run through it's process again. See how that works. It just could be a software issue.

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