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Outlook: 16/02/2010

16/02/2010

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Campaigning mother; Uganda skateboarding; Lord of the Rings prequel; Swat Valley.

Campaigning mother; Uganda skateboarding; Lord of the Rings prequel; Swat Valley cosmetics.

Children's hospital scandal
Liverpool mother Paula O'Leary campaigned for years in the wake of Britain's biggest human organ scandal.  She tells Lucy Ash how she has never come to terms with the fact that the body parts of her baby son, Andrew, were kept by the hospital without her consent.  

Uganda skate-boarding park
Kampala now boasts Uganda's first purpose-built skate-boarding park.  Outlook's Joshua Mmali went to meet the man who set it up, and watched some aspiring young skateboarders in action. 

Swat Valley cosmetics     
Before the Taliban took control of Pakistan's Swat Valley, there were twenty five cosmetic factories there. Employees included three thousand women, who were forced to stop working. For Outlook, Adnan Rashid reports on developments since the Taliban were driven out last year.

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