#476 | The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars

English Learning for Curious Minds

30-05-2024 • 22 minuti


Ice cream vans can be a sweet memory for many, but for Glasgow in the 1980s, they were anything but.

From selling drugs to inciting gang wars and even murder, we'll uncover the dark and shocking tale of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars.

  • Background to The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars
  • Ice cream vans in Glasgow
  • Living conditions in Glasgow schemes
  • Ice cream van territory fights
  • Criminals entering the ice cream trade
  • Organised crime and drug dealing
  • Andrew Doyle's resistance to intimidation
  • Doyle family fire and deaths
  • Wrongful conviction of Campbell and Steele
  • Campbell and Steele's exoneration after 20 years


Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/glasgow-ice-cream-wars


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