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Page last updated at 12:13 GMT, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 13:13 UK

Why are more women covering their faces?

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Increasing numbers of British Muslim women are choosing to wear the face veil.

Four of those women explain to Newsnight why they adopted the niqab when their mothers did not.

Broadcast on Monday 23 August 2010.

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