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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 14 July 2012

Weekend Edition 14 July 2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 14 July 2012

Pascale Harter with the pick of this week's dispatches from BBC correspondents worldwide.

Pascale Harter with the insights from BBC correspondents and writers worldwide. With dispatches on at austerity in Italy and  Latvia; lions in Kenya; Johannesburg's new image and Indian family trees.

Pascale Harter introduces the pick of this week's personal stories, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers around the world. In this edition:

ALAN JOHNSTON feels the strain of Italy's new austerity on the streets of Rome, in the working-class district of Testaccio;

DAMIEN McGUINNESS describes how despite a stern fiscal haircut, some Latvians are wearing their 'cheap chic' well;

NATASHA BREED traces the reasons for growing conflict between man and lion in Kenya;

HAMILTON WENDE sees how his home town of Johannesburg is trying to shed its old image as a crime-ridden urban assault course;

and ANU ANAND traces the roots of her family tree on a very personal pilgrimage to Haridwar, India - and finds just the Hindu priest to ask for help.

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