Why is messaging taking up 2gb when I have deleted everything

I am running out of space on my ipad so checked the usage. after having deleted messages my ipad still seems to think 2 GBB of space is taken up by messages. How can I sort this out? Any help would be appreciated thans

Sync with iTunes to delete the Cached messages. 
Wonderhowto.com touches on this in this article: http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/permanently-delete-text-messages-your-iphone-0 147344/

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