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liveblog reported on the country's heatwave, the BBC Data Unit [contributed a quick story on the places in the country with the most ice cream vans](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-49109437?ns_linkname=5d396efcef0ce9067bfed45f%26Ice%20cream%20for%20lunch%3F%262019-07-25T11%3A15%3A44.522Z\u0026pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:ebf2408c-38c3-44e7-95c6-97315fe716f1\u0026pinned_post_asset_id=5d396efcef0ce9067bfed45f). \n\nThe chart was based on an analysis of both Food Standards Agency data from England, Northern Ireland and Walves, and separately for Scotland.\n\n## Get the data \n\n* XML: [search results for 'ice cream' from the Food Standards Agency](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/blob/master/icecream.xml)\n* CSV: [search results for 'ice cream' from the Food Standards Agency](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/blob/master/icecream.csv)\n* XML: [search results for 'ice cream' in Scotland from the Food Standards Agency](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/blob/master/scoticecreamxml.xml)\n* CSV: [search results for 'ice cream' in Scotland from the Food Standards Agency](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/blob/master/icecreamscot.csv)\n\n## Visualisation\n\n![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/master/icecreamvan_barchart.png)\n\n* Bar chart: Mobile catering businesses with 'ice cream' in the title, by local authority (top 10)\n\n## Related repos\n\nThe Data Unit also contributed an update to the same liveblog on [the hottest lines on the Tube](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/tube-hottest-lines)\n\n## Related stories\n\nThe day after the BBC live update, the Mirror news website published *[Ice cream van capitals of UK revealed - see if your town makes the list](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ice-cream-van-capitals-uk-18784887)*, adding a per capita figure and broadening the search to include *\"\"mr whippy\", \"mister softee\", \"walls\" and \"soft serve\", among others\"* which identified over 1,700 establishments.\n\nIt added that \"A Guardian estimate in 2013 put the number of ice cream vans at more like 2,500 - based on the number of new vehicles produced every year\", but that \"an estimate by insurance company NCASS for the Sunday People put the figure even higher, at 5,000.\"\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Fice-cream-hotspots","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Fice-cream-hotspots","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Fice-cream-hotspots/lists"}