An infamous Glasgow gang will feature in the BBC hit drama Peaky Blinders.
The city's razor gangs will be playing a key role in the latest series which is due out in 2019.
Writer Steven Knight said the Glaswegian gangs were the "hardest" in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, when the show is set and creators have been spending time researching their history.
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The award-winning BBC2 show follows the rise to power of Birmingham gangster Tommy Shelby (played by Irish actor Cillian Murphy), who became an MP at the end of the last series.
Knight, 58, said: “The truth is that in the late twenties and thirties really the hardest gangs were in Glasgow. There was a very definite structure to the gangs so I have been delving into the history of that.
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“They become involved through a bit of invention, some creativity. We are going to start the series in 1929 which was a time of big economic upheaval and the gateway to the Thirties where we all know what happened.
“It’s a rich vein to be mining.”
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