Aamer Anwar
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Aamer Anwar is a British political activist and lawyer of Pakistani origin. He was an active participant in the Stop the War Coalition, and campaigned against the 31st G8 summit at Gleneagles. He has
Anwar in September 2018
Anwar representing a family on an appeals case at the High Court of Justiciary, 2009
Anwar meeting with the first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, at Bute House, 2014
Anwar speaking to a pro-independence rally in Catalonia, 2018
Glasgow ice cream wars
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The ice cream wars were turf wars in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between rival criminal organisations selling drugs and stolen goods from ice cream vans. Van operators were involve
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…Campbell's murder conviction overturned. Campbell had spent 20 years in jail for the arson and murder of a family, an incident that had been part of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars. In 2010 Anwar acted as solicitor for Tommy Sheridan in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Sheridan sacked Anwar after a dispute between the two men…
Ice cream vans, similar to this one, announce their arrivals at the stops along their "runs" with musical chimes, played via loudspeakers.