Safari going mental

Hi, my iPad keeps going mental while safari is open. It keeps changing pages and expanding and reducing the screen size. When it starts doing this I do a reset (home and on/off button) when it come back on it stops doing the mental bit for a while but the page back button won't work!! The screen is clean and dry. Any ideas?

Hi Demo,
Its just done the same thing again, with safari open it expands the screen then starts opening different pages. It's a bit like someone else is remotely using the iPad which is well scarey.
Anyway thinking back I did drop my iPad a couple of days before this all started happening and put 4 or 5 nice scratches on the screen, 2 of which I can feel with my nail :( it dropped and slid on a laminate floor. Do you think this may have something to do with it?
After it started going funny again this morning I have cleared all the things you told me in your earlier post but one thing I have noticed is the top 5mm of my touch screen doesn't work (the area furthest from the home button)
Your thoughts are appreciated, Jon

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