0:00:02 > 0:00:04Just north of the city centre is a little known Manchester suburb
0:00:04 > 0:00:06called Harpurhey.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10This programme contains strong language.
0:00:10 > 0:00:14They say it's full of rough families. I don't think it's such a bad place.
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Ten years ago a report branded it
0:00:15 > 0:00:17the most deprived neighbourhood in England.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20- It's a simple question I asked.- Yeah, and I'm trying to answer it.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22Things have got a bit better since then,
0:00:22 > 0:00:25but life round here is still no bed of roses.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27There's one of them local expressions,
0:00:27 > 0:00:28they'd steal the shit out of your arse.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Not cos they want it, just so you haven't got it.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Half the people have no qualifications.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37And antisocial behaviour is rife.
0:00:37 > 0:00:38Are you the neighbour from hell?
0:00:38 > 0:00:39Probably, yeah.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42People round here might not be the poshest,
0:00:42 > 0:00:43but they're not lacking in spirit.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46That's why we call ourselves the dysfunctionals.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50They're just trying to get on with life, be themselves...
0:00:50 > 0:00:54- I ain't driving the van like this. - ..and follow their dreams.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56I could be like a different person when I'm acting.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00'Tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03For one long summer, the young people of Harpurhey
0:01:03 > 0:01:04let us into their secret world.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07# I have a penis I shake it in the morning... #
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Sharing the good times...
0:01:09 > 0:01:11- Megan Fox eat your heart out. - ..and the bad.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Hello!
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Go and find another street to go and terrorise.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18This is how it really feels growing up the hard way.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Youse might think you know people like us,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24but you don't know nothing yet!
0:01:31 > 0:01:34This week, young mum Sherelle is trying to avoid
0:01:34 > 0:01:36getting into trouble, for the sake of her son.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Show how you do it with no hands?
0:01:38 > 0:01:39While Sherelle's mum, Mandy,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42and neighbour Katie face the threat of eviction.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Hello! Can you go somewhere else, chook, cos I'm not getting
0:01:46 > 0:01:47kicked out for no kids.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50At the Wishy Washy launderette, can Mum and Dad
0:01:50 > 0:01:53curb Maddy's bad behaviour before she starts high school?
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Go on, I've got a job for you now.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01And pregnant Louise gets valuable advice in preparation for her
0:02:01 > 0:02:03new life as a mum.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05When you're in pain and your legs are open, you just want
0:02:05 > 0:02:07anything to get it out, you don't give a monkey's
0:02:07 > 0:02:10who's looking there, who's poking there
0:02:10 > 0:02:12and how many drugs they pump into you.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14You don't care.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26In the centre of Harpurhey, there's a street where some neighbours
0:02:26 > 0:02:28have been causing a headache for the police,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31the council and residents who want a quiet life.
0:02:31 > 0:02:32We're on Brentford Street.
0:02:35 > 0:02:3922-year-old mum, Sherelle, and son, Kyrel, hang out on the street.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Sherelle's been in trouble in the past, but she's changed her ways.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Right here's me mother's house. Me mum lives here.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51If you look through the window,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55you'll see all of them bonging it with the cannabis.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56I'm going to batter you.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Get the bong out here, lads. Our Katie lives here.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Our Kate.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05This is my old house where I used to live and then, at the end
0:03:05 > 0:03:08of the street, like some of the kids when they've got nowhere to go
0:03:08 > 0:03:13they'll just come round here and have a spliff and sit on the wall there.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18Or have a bong. We've got a garden centre here on the left.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21We're not allowed to go in there cos, as you can see,
0:03:21 > 0:03:22it's got a big bolt on the gate.
0:03:24 > 0:03:29And we have a big field that like you might as well say...
0:03:29 > 0:03:33don't have any use to it because every time we get something out,
0:03:33 > 0:03:37a motorbike or some form of something with an engine,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39and go on there we get in trouble.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Oh!
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Oh, give it a break! Give it a break!
0:03:54 > 0:03:56That's on my lungs now that. Oh, it's horrible.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00No, I'll shove that in there while I'm here.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02At the top of the street lives Cathie,
0:04:02 > 0:04:04who runs the community garden
0:04:04 > 0:04:05directly opposite some of the neighbours
0:04:05 > 0:04:07that have been causing problems.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09She's lived here for 26 years.
0:04:10 > 0:04:16'There's a lot of noise, a lot of arguing, a lot of foul language.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19'There's a lot of drugs, a lot of drinking goes on,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22'people fighting with each other, which is not a nice thing to see.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29'There's a lot of traffic.'
0:04:29 > 0:04:30And I live in a cul-de-sac.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36So there's some of the problems.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Despite not always seeing eye to eye with her neighbours,
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Cathie still feels the area has a genuine community spirit.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45You know people are quite friendly
0:04:45 > 0:04:48and people like to sit on the doorstep, have a cup of tea,
0:04:48 > 0:04:51have a chat with the neighbours, that's really great.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52I don't really think that
0:04:52 > 0:04:55moving or moving out of the area would be...
0:04:55 > 0:04:57of any benefit to me whatsoever.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02A mile up the road is the local launderette.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Wishy Washy has been run by Paul and Karen for six years.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11My mum is the boss.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Paul's role is the sort of, not slave,
0:05:16 > 0:05:21but he does all like the washing, he does like the delivery in the shop.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23He's just always like too busy,
0:05:23 > 0:05:26and then you've got Madison, who's my little sister,
0:05:26 > 0:05:32she's definitely the spoilt one, and me, I'm the mature one.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Yeah, she has a go at ya, yeah.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39- Can I go to Travena's with her? - Who said?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Her mum. Me and Travena's going to get the bus...
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Maddy's 11 and about to leave junior school.
0:05:44 > 0:05:49- I'm nearly in high school.- Ooh(!) - Please, go on.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Are you going to be safe?
0:05:51 > 0:05:55'Being 11 you don't really get to do as much like,
0:05:55 > 0:05:57'you see high school people'
0:05:57 > 0:06:01walking up and down to the houses and that,
0:06:01 > 0:06:04and I'm thinking, "Wow, I'm only 11, my mum won't even let me
0:06:04 > 0:06:07"walk across the road on me own."
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Well, will you go to the car first and get your phone out, please?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- Your blackberry. - Is it charged?- Oh, I don't know.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Huh, well, then you should have changed it.
0:06:16 > 0:06:22- Only round the corner there.- I don't care.- Hey, lady! Attitude Annie.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25Maddy's starting secondary school in eight weeks
0:06:25 > 0:06:27and she's already asserting her independence,
0:06:27 > 0:06:29which isn't going down well at home.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33- If you have a brain it's not in there.- Now, now, er, Maddy.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Right, you're not going now for that.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37AMBER: 'She gets away with too much - Maddy.'
0:06:37 > 0:06:39I don't know what it is. Like I say to me mum,
0:06:39 > 0:06:42"Well, tell her off then." She's like that, she's like,
0:06:42 > 0:06:45"I can't be dealing with her cos she keeps going on and on." I'm like,
0:06:45 > 0:06:47"You can't do that cos she knows she's getting away with it."
0:06:47 > 0:06:50'It's like Madison's got her own way then.'
0:06:50 > 0:06:51You're a spaz.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55What's wrong with you now?
0:06:55 > 0:06:58It was your fault for putting my phone in your bag, you stupid mong.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Well, what did you want? Eh?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03My mum doesn't know when to stop cos she's...
0:07:03 > 0:07:05she's like, she loves instigating things,
0:07:05 > 0:07:09she loves things going further, she loves people's reactions.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Mum, he's got my phone.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15Oh, it's not your fault that I'm a mong and what was the other? A spaz?
0:07:15 > 0:07:20- That isn't a nice word to use anyhow.- Please, Mum!- No.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24No, you'll learn your lesson. Get in there now, get in the back.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Get in the back and don't come out.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- MADDY:- 'The worst thing I've ever said to my parents,
0:07:34 > 0:07:38'it sounds like really bad, but I don't mean it.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39'Sometimes I can say that'
0:07:39 > 0:07:41I'm going to kill myself
0:07:41 > 0:07:43because I can't get me own way.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48You abuse me, I hate you.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Yeah, that is abusing, very abusing, but you're not going.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56What did she say to me out the window last night,
0:07:56 > 0:07:59cos I said you can't come to the park?
0:07:59 > 0:08:03"I hope you crash and die." Amber would never speak to me like that.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10I've learnt to mentally block me children out, any child -
0:08:10 > 0:08:13I've learnt to actually mentally block them out.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Mum, I'm sorry.- Good.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23Sometimes I can like just pretend to cry, erm,
0:08:23 > 0:08:26and usually I can just make myself cry that much
0:08:26 > 0:08:29that tears will roll down my face
0:08:29 > 0:08:31and she will believe that I'm really crying.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34I'm sorry.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45Sherelle's picking up 3-year-old Kyrel up from nursery school.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49- Full-time school.- Kyrel did not have the best start in life,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52as his mum was serving a prison sentence when he was born.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54He's knackered, he wants me to pick him up,
0:08:54 > 0:08:55but I can't be arsed.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58'I would not want my child to follow the road I went down.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01'No, I don't want him to be nothing like me.'
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Argh, big boy.
0:09:04 > 0:09:10Kyrel was born while I was in prison, and then, before I got out,
0:09:10 > 0:09:14he stayed with me for a bit and then before I got out my mum had him.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17What have you been doing today?
0:09:19 > 0:09:23While she was at college, Sherelle started dealing class A drugs.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26'Some days I'd say I'm going to college
0:09:26 > 0:09:29'when I weren't even in and then I'd go and sell drugs, yeah.'
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Yeah, I was making quite a bit of money a day.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38It was all right, sometimes it was a bit shit, but it was all right,
0:09:38 > 0:09:43it was doing more than getting me by, put it that way.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49'Me son's dad, he's in prison'
0:09:49 > 0:09:50now as well for armed robbery,
0:09:50 > 0:09:53but he'll be like... he's not got long left.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57You done me a picture with pencils.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Sherelle has not been in trouble since she came out of prison
0:09:59 > 0:10:02and she's determined to lead a crime-free life.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04She's also resolved to make sure Kyrel
0:10:04 > 0:10:06stays on the straight and narrow.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09I worry about him sometimes cos of the community,
0:10:09 > 0:10:15like the environment sometimes isn't a good environment for the kids.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18Hello.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27He copies most of the boys now, so I couldn't imagine
0:10:27 > 0:10:30what he's going to be like when he's older.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32But I will stop it before it gets to that.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37# Apple bottom jeans boots with the fur
0:10:37 > 0:10:41# The fur and the whole club looking at her
0:10:41 > 0:10:45# She hit the floor, she hit the floor and anybody knows
0:10:45 > 0:10:48# Gotta go low, low, low, low Low, low, low... #
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Oi!
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- SHERELLE:- 'The street has a bad name.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56'Yeah, it's a bit noisy,
0:10:56 > 0:11:00'but it's like a lot of kids and neighbours are friendly though.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03'Everyone on the street knows each other, everyone's friendly.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05'You can just leave your kids outside'
0:11:05 > 0:11:07and as long as one person's on the street,
0:11:07 > 0:11:09that one person will watch all the kids.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Put your coat in Nana's.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Mum, you gave me the bag of clothes yesterday
0:11:13 > 0:11:16and you haven't even got a change of clothes now.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19ON PA: 'We are in your area collecting all types of scrap metal.
0:11:19 > 0:11:24'Old boilers, washers, cookers, microwaves, fridges,
0:11:24 > 0:11:26'dishwashers, radiators...'
0:11:26 > 0:11:30In her spare time, Cathie works as a community guardian.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32A community guardian is, erm,
0:11:32 > 0:11:37a volunteer for Manchester City Council.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Basically it's looking out for environmental crime,
0:11:40 > 0:11:43although that's quite a big... it makes it sound, you sound like
0:11:43 > 0:11:45some sort of police investigator or something,
0:11:45 > 0:11:47but really it's just looking for rubbish.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Leather sofa, 20 Dime Street.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54Surprise, surprise(!) There's one here every week.
0:11:57 > 0:12:02'It is a good place to live, it's my roots is here in Harpurhey.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05'I've lived here for 26 years'
0:12:05 > 0:12:07and I love it, really.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10And all its problems.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16You know them things that make your boobs look bigger
0:12:16 > 0:12:19and you put them in a bra, I found a pair of them once.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Children play here, but look at the state of it.
0:12:22 > 0:12:27Children shouldn't have to play in an area like this. Woo-hoo!
0:12:33 > 0:12:35These are empty cos people have left,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39that one's empty cos they got kicked out, so, er, we've now got six
0:12:39 > 0:12:43empty properties in the area, that just means more landlords
0:12:43 > 0:12:46don't it? And, you know, I just think they've ruined our communities.
0:12:50 > 0:12:51Nik Taylor.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53- SHERELLE:- 'Nik, the landlord.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56'He thinks that he's welcome on the street'
0:12:56 > 0:13:00because he's got a few houses on the street, but no-one likes him.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Kyrel, tell me... tell me what you've done today.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Landlord Nik Taylor owns seven of the houses on Brentford Street.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Most of his tenants are on housing benefit.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25He's a familiar face in the area.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Nik put your arse away, it's leaving out.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30You shouldn't have been looking.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32You shouldn't be bending over in front of everyone then.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35I think generally the people are friendly
0:13:35 > 0:13:39unless you're a landlord and therefore you're deemed to be wrong.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42- Look he's still got it out. - That's dirty that.
0:13:42 > 0:13:43'It's like'
0:13:43 > 0:13:47as if in the old days when if you were a woman, or you were black,
0:13:47 > 0:13:51or you were gay, you were therefore wrong, yeah.
0:13:51 > 0:13:57Now, you're only wrong if you're a landlord or a banker.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Yeah, we're, we're just wrong, there's nothing we can do.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Whatever we do, it's wrong.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07You're not getting away with this Nik, you're naughty.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10You're a naughty and you're a shit bag.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14- You know what I mean? Your PhD is there. Mine's there.- Right.
0:14:14 > 0:14:15So bring it on, mate.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22'I mean it was only what 20 minutes ago I was told by a tenant'
0:14:22 > 0:14:28I was going to have my head kicked in, and all I say is,
0:14:28 > 0:14:30"Anyone kills me, my wife sells every house in Manchester
0:14:30 > 0:14:33"in one auction and you're all homeless."
0:14:38 > 0:14:40That, on with the jacket, it's way big.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42MUMBLES
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Although it's a few weeks before Maddy starts high school,
0:14:44 > 0:14:46she's trying on her new uniform.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49There. And clip it down.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53- Oh, that fits you.- It fits you better than it fits Maddy.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56- That's really ridiculous.- I know.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59She looks like a proper bloke.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Well, that's what we got to do, innit?
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Paul has learned to keep a low profile
0:15:03 > 0:15:06when the Wakefield girls start dressing up.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07'I see like knickers,'
0:15:07 > 0:15:10bras, looking like this and that, stockings like,
0:15:10 > 0:15:12fucking like fl...flying about the house like, you know what I mean?
0:15:12 > 0:15:16It's unbelievable. You know what I mean? It's fucking mad.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18- What's the skirt look like?- Hanging.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21- You don't wear a fleece under your blazer.- No.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23You might as well put your blazer on. It's big enough, innit?
0:15:23 > 0:15:26- I'm trying it, man!- Amber stop. Maddy, stop talking like a chav.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28SHATTERING GLASS
0:15:30 > 0:15:32- Who knocked that over? - Me best vase.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37- Who's the idiot that put it on the radiator?- Your dad.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41AMBER: 'It's not just three women he lives with,
0:15:41 > 0:15:44'it's three Wakey women - the Wakefields.'
0:15:44 > 0:15:48What we say goes, like if I'm right then I'm right.
0:15:48 > 0:15:53And if I know I'm wrong, I'm still right because Paul can't be right.
0:15:53 > 0:15:54Do you know what you look like,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57one of those footballers out of the '30s.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05Just round the corner from the Wakefields' house
0:16:05 > 0:16:07is Stax the hairdressers.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Where's your moustache? Give us your moustache?
0:16:09 > 0:16:11- Oh, have I got one?- Yeah.
0:16:11 > 0:16:16I can't see, you're that caked in make-up.
0:16:16 > 0:16:1825-year-old Louise has worked here
0:16:18 > 0:16:21as a salon assistant for seven years.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25She's expecting her first baby in six weeks' time.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29I had India six weeks early, so it could happen any time, Louise.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Don't be saying that. Dawn said that before.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34'I'm looking forward to the birth,
0:16:34 > 0:16:37'I'm excited about what the pain's going to be like.'
0:16:37 > 0:16:40I think it's something you know you have to go through
0:16:40 > 0:16:43and just prepare your..., I'm just preparing myself for it,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46but I'm excited, I just, I think if you have a Caesarean, I think
0:16:46 > 0:16:49you might feel robbed, do you know like you've done everything else,
0:16:49 > 0:16:53carried the baby and then you've just, you've missed the ending.
0:16:53 > 0:16:58Louise's mate, Donna, co-owns the salon and is a mum as well.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01She's a ready source of advice when it comes to childbirth.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Well, let me tell you something,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06when you're in pain and your legs are open, you just want anything
0:17:06 > 0:17:09to get it out, it doesn't matter what your plans were, what you say
0:17:09 > 0:17:13you was going to do, when you're in agony you don't give a monkey's
0:17:13 > 0:17:15who's looking there, who's poking there
0:17:15 > 0:17:17and how many drugs they pump into you.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19You don't care.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Stax is a good place to get, erm, advice and stuff cos everyone
0:17:22 > 0:17:26just talks about anything, like Donna's quite outspoken, so she
0:17:26 > 0:17:29won't just tell you what you want to hear, she tells you the truth.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32But obviously I ended up having to have a emergency section
0:17:32 > 0:17:36because I'd been in labour 50-odd hours, and what was happening
0:17:36 > 0:17:39was as I was pushing him out, he was...his head was turning away,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42so I was, basically his neck was, his head was going back.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44You just put them needles in the tummy
0:17:44 > 0:17:47and I mean I did get an infection in me scar, but it was all right.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Sherelle's had a visit from the police
0:17:56 > 0:17:59whilst she was out. They've asked her to call back.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Hello, um, I've received a note through the door yesterday
0:18:03 > 0:18:07afternoon saying that, um, someone's called out to see me.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11I've got an orange slip and then this number at the bottom.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13'But as soon as something happens,
0:18:13 > 0:18:15'like police will come to Brentford Street'
0:18:15 > 0:18:18because they know a lot of kids are on Brentford Street,
0:18:18 > 0:18:22and without a doubt someone will get the blame on that street.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26Yeah, but how can you get the complaint if I don't have a stereo?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Neighbours have been complaining about loud music.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32With her past record, Sherelle's keen to stay off the police radar.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Um, I don't know, maybe they don't like me,
0:18:34 > 0:18:36maybe they just want me out.
0:18:37 > 0:18:41Right. OK. All right. OK, bye.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45I don't want to go back to jail, I don't ever want to get in trouble
0:18:45 > 0:18:48again, obviously everyone gets into trouble and does things wrong and
0:18:48 > 0:18:52does like stupid things, but I just don't want to get arrested again.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Sherelle's not the only one in trouble in the neighbourhood.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Her mum, Mandy, and neighbour, Katie,
0:19:05 > 0:19:08have just received letters from the council calling them in
0:19:08 > 0:19:12to discuss complaints of antisocial behaviour.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15To me, this is a happy family street.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18The two neighbours here, we've got pretty big families,
0:19:18 > 0:19:19you know I've got seven of me own,
0:19:19 > 0:19:22plus their friends are going to come and friends of friends
0:19:22 > 0:19:26are going to come and I think that is the main problem - visitors.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30"I am writing to you because I have received reports regarding noise
0:19:30 > 0:19:33"and nuisance and antisocial behaviour from the above property.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36"Of which I am informed you are the current tenant."
0:19:38 > 0:19:4129-year-old Katie lives with her four children.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47Her house has also become a hangout for her brothers and their mates.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Noisy gatherings are making her the target of criticism.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54It's just because the young lads all congregate on this street,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57you've probably seen a few people coming in and out my house
0:19:57 > 0:20:00but they are all my family, each and every one of them.
0:20:00 > 0:20:05There's a serious chance that the two families could be evicted.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08I think meself, we're all going to get an ASBO.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11I don't know why, but I've just got that feeling we're going to
0:20:11 > 0:20:14get an ASBO or maybe an eviction notice.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Landlord Nik owns both Katie and Mandy's houses,
0:20:22 > 0:20:25he's having to deal with complaints from the council
0:20:25 > 0:20:28and from the tenants who feel they've been harshly treated.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30This letter has really angered me, Nik, it really,
0:20:30 > 0:20:33really has because I have done nothing, and absolute nothing
0:20:33 > 0:20:35but try and keep the peace round here
0:20:35 > 0:20:37on this street with absolutely everyone.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Sorry, I've got to go and sign this tenancy for these people.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44- Yeah, I'm sorry, Nik. - See you tomorrow, yeah?
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- I'm just not having people backstabbing me though.- Right, OK.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- I'm not having it. - Sorry, I've got to go.
0:20:53 > 0:20:54He ain't my landlord!
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Basically everyone's scared and thinking they're getting kicked out.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00I don't know who's going to go,
0:21:00 > 0:21:03I don't know who's going to stay, but we're hoping we all stay.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08I've just got... I have just, with recovering from alcohol,
0:21:08 > 0:21:12alcoholism, it's been a really hard run for me.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14But before I did, I did receive one of these letters,
0:21:14 > 0:21:17but I deserved it, and this like means so much to me
0:21:17 > 0:21:20because I don't deserve this one, but I deserved the last one that
0:21:20 > 0:21:23I got because I was drunk and I was disorderly and I was
0:21:23 > 0:21:26aggressive towards me neighbours, so I deserved that letter.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29But I really don't deserve this one. I really don't.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43It's Maddy's last week at junior school
0:21:43 > 0:21:46and she's going to her leaving prom this evening.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50Mum, Karen, is treating her to a grownup hairdo at Stax hairdressers.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Stax is well known as the local talking shop,
0:21:56 > 0:21:59and conversation is not always aimed at customers Maddy's age.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03The subject under discussion today is clairvoyants.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07- It's very sad that people have to find that comfort.- Yeah.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Cos they don't go to these people
0:22:09 > 0:22:11to have their cards read for no other reason.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12My auntie Elaine went to one, um,
0:22:12 > 0:22:16one of the ones that did the film stars. I like them shoes.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17Erm, the film stars,
0:22:17 > 0:22:22and she told her that she was going to meet a man with really nice eyes.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Now she was like, she's gay, she's gay, right.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27But believe it or not because of what she said,
0:22:27 > 0:22:30she started seeing somebody in work that she loved his eyes,
0:22:30 > 0:22:32and he ripped her off for 30 grand.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35So I said to her, "Next time you try to go to one of them,
0:22:35 > 0:22:37"I'll batter you meself." See you, chuck.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38How you doing under there?
0:22:38 > 0:22:43I think that I'm probably in the middle now, like I can act
0:22:43 > 0:22:46childish, but sometimes I can act a little bit grownup.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50- What do you want to be when you're older?- A director in Hollywood.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- Do you really?- Yeah.- Do you?
0:22:52 > 0:22:56And if you can't be a director in Hollywood what else would you be?
0:22:56 > 0:23:00- A singer.- And if you couldn't be a singer, what else would you be?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- A policewoman.- Now, that's better.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08You're better off having a back-up plan. Are you good at writing?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Keep writing, that's for a definite.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15Well, look at her that's just done them, er, 50 Shades Of Grey,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18she's actually sold more copies than Harry Potter first come out.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22'Sometimes I can understand what they're saying'
0:23:22 > 0:23:26and sometimes I can be like really confused,
0:23:26 > 0:23:28I'm just like, "What are you saying?"
0:23:28 > 0:23:31When you think about it, most married couples are one of them
0:23:31 > 0:23:33"Pull me nightie down when you're finished."
0:23:33 > 0:23:36- It gets a bit boring, don't it? - It depends.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40- I think once you stop playing games. - That's boring.- Yeah, it gets boring.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42It's weird, innit?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45'And sometimes they can talk about their boyfriends'
0:23:45 > 0:23:48and about them getting like married and stuff,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51and I'm just so like, "Should I join in this conversation?"
0:23:51 > 0:23:53I think fellas stray with prostitutes
0:23:53 > 0:23:56because basically the women don't do what they want them to do.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Yeah, that probably is the main reason.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00- Cos the man's not doing his job properly.- No, no.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03- No, it's because the wives won't do it.- It's a woman's world in bed.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07- Come on. Come on. Let me tell you something.- No, Denise,
0:24:07 > 0:24:10don't forget they have fantasies and a lot of women won't
0:24:10 > 0:24:14do it, where they can go and pay for it to be done, which is fair enough.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Cos they've always been around, haven't they?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Even in the Roman times they were around.
0:24:20 > 0:24:26Right, Shirley Temple. Is that all right for you? Yeah, do you like it?
0:24:26 > 0:24:30# If you want it I'm gonna be ba-ba-boom-boom
0:24:30 > 0:24:32# If you got it you got it you got that... #
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Oh, wow! That is amazing!
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Back on Brentford Street, Nik's on his daily rounds,
0:24:49 > 0:24:52and there's a rumour cannabis may be being cultivated at one
0:24:52 > 0:24:57of his properties on the street, and he's taking a closer look.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00First stop is Sherelle's mum Mandy's house which was
0:25:00 > 0:25:03the site of a cannabis grow before Mandy moved in.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07'This area, many people smoke cannabis.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10'Because people are using the stuff it's got to be
0:25:10 > 0:25:12'produced by somebody somewhere, so,'
0:25:12 > 0:25:14yeah, I would say the two local
0:25:14 > 0:25:18industries for Harpurhey, was growing weed
0:25:18 > 0:25:21and stealing other people's weed...
0:25:21 > 0:25:24when it was grown, so that's like one business.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26And then stealing copper.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31'It's a house that's had a grow in before,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34'so I'm scared about the electrics being tampered with.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37'You can see when it's been a grow, I've had so many.'
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Right, we're underneath the house now...
0:25:41 > 0:25:45..that there used to be a grow down here.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49and we still...we've got the remains of the soil for the growing compost.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52It looks like what me wife might grow bulbs in,
0:25:52 > 0:25:53it's that sort of stuff.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Nik couldn't find any signs of cannabis
0:25:56 > 0:25:58being grown at Mandy's house,
0:25:58 > 0:26:00but the police have received intelligence that drugs may be
0:26:00 > 0:26:03being dealt from the premises. They plan to raid it.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08The two warrants are both, er, misuse of drugs -
0:26:08 > 0:26:12expected to be class A, and cannabis - on the premises.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Intel from local residents says that they're dealing out of the window at
0:26:16 > 0:26:21all times of the day and night, into cars, people on push bikes etcetera.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24So, that's it. Happy hunting.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30- SHERELLE:- 'Brentford Street gets raided because the Street'
0:26:30 > 0:26:32probably does smell like cannabis
0:26:32 > 0:26:35'because a lot of people sit out smoking'
0:26:35 > 0:26:38because they've got nothing better to do.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42- Hi, you all right?- Hello.- Got a warrant to search your address.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45- What for?- For drugs.- Really?- Yeah.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49We've had information that there's possibly drugs on the premises, OK?
0:26:49 > 0:26:52'If someone gets raided everyone comes out on the street'
0:26:52 > 0:26:55and everyone's like laughing and joking about it.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58'Some people even pull phones out and record it.'
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Doing both houses. A fucking joke, innit?
0:27:05 > 0:27:06After a thorough search,
0:27:06 > 0:27:10the police don't quite get the drugs haul they were expecting.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13It's just the one snap bag of cannabis and then some
0:27:13 > 0:27:16basically rubbish, a leaf which would have come from
0:27:16 > 0:27:19maybe a bigger deal. That's just basically
0:27:19 > 0:27:21the scraps off it that aren't worth smoking.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Obviously, yeah, I smoke weed, everyone does in this world.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29Erm, but that's all they found was personal.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33It was mine. And took it.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37The occupier of the house, they're going to get a street warning,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40which is basically the lowest level of punishment for cannabis
0:27:40 > 0:27:42possession that we can deal with without a criminal record.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51At Stax, Louise's mate Donna is known for her zero tolerance
0:27:51 > 0:27:53attitude on matters of law and order.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55What about, even, prisoners now?
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Prisoners are actually getting the right to vote.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02- Yeah, I know.- How pathetic is that?!
0:28:02 > 0:28:06You get locked up in a five star hotel...
0:28:06 > 0:28:09and then now you're allowed to have lottery tickets
0:28:09 > 0:28:12and win the lottery, and now they're allowed to vote.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18This country is absolutely... Do you know all these do-gooders?
0:28:18 > 0:28:21They want lining up against a wall and they want shooting.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24I mean if it was up to me, they'd be on bread and water
0:28:24 > 0:28:26and locked in a cell 24 hours a day.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31'Pregnant Louise is just four weeks away from her due date.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35'When she was a kid, she knew more about prison than most.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38'Her dad, Matthew, was constantly in and out of jail
0:28:38 > 0:28:39'for theft and drug offences,
0:28:39 > 0:28:42'and his criminal lifestyle brought the family
0:28:42 > 0:28:45'face to face with danger.'
0:28:45 > 0:28:49Yeah, looking at me, you wouldn't think butter would melt.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51Oh...
0:28:51 > 0:28:53But you was a rogue, weren't you?
0:28:53 > 0:28:57Well, you had to be.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00It was always confrontation with your petrol bombs and stuff.
0:29:00 > 0:29:04- Yeah.- You were throwing them petrol bombs out the bedroom window.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07That was all down to my lifestyle and the way I was,
0:29:07 > 0:29:09and why the kids got crap.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13There was a time when a gang of lads come to the house.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16Really, I should have run, because they was gunmen, these men,
0:29:16 > 0:29:19and they come for a bit of trouble with me.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22I said to the lads, "If you want me, you get me on the street,
0:29:22 > 0:29:25"you don't get me at my house where my kids are."
0:29:25 > 0:29:28I remember driving off to the petrol station with Mum to get the petrol
0:29:28 > 0:29:31and you was like, "Get the petrol - quick."
0:29:31 > 0:29:33I said, "You come for me," and I said, "I'll burn youse."
0:29:33 > 0:29:35We knew they was coming, so it's like,
0:29:35 > 0:29:37you're stood at the door waiting for them
0:29:37 > 0:29:39and then these five cars drove up,
0:29:39 > 0:29:41all parked on different side of the road,
0:29:41 > 0:29:45and then this main man just come out and then he was like,
0:29:45 > 0:29:47he highered them up out the car, didn't he?
0:29:47 > 0:29:49- Yeah.- And they all had the balaclavas on
0:29:49 > 0:29:51and then he was all pointing the guns up the street at us.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55We had another gang of people at the house that time, remember?
0:29:55 > 0:29:58- Yeah, yeah.- Did they actually burn the kitchen down then, or did like,
0:29:58 > 0:30:00did I remember?
0:30:00 > 0:30:02Yeah, petrol through the kitchen window.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05Yeah, petrol, and then we had to go and sit in the neighbours' house.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08I just remember being rushed out the front door
0:30:08 > 0:30:09cos the kitchen was on fire,
0:30:09 > 0:30:12and then the neighbours took us in and that's all I remember seeing.
0:30:12 > 0:30:15I mean, now, when I think about it, erm,
0:30:15 > 0:30:19I hate the thought of what they went through.
0:30:19 > 0:30:20Never mind what I went through,
0:30:20 > 0:30:24but what youse was going through must have been horrible,
0:30:24 > 0:30:26having parents like that.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29Er, it must have been.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31But we survived it, didn't we?
0:30:31 > 0:30:33- Yeah.- Erm, they're not too bad.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38- You have to laugh, else you cry, innit, really? But...- Yeah, yeah.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41I wouldn't want to bring my child up how I was brought up,
0:30:41 > 0:30:43cos Mum and Dad was, like, on drugs and stuff,
0:30:43 > 0:30:47but I don't regret it, because I wouldn't be the person I am today.
0:30:47 > 0:30:51Now I can sit back and laugh at the stories, and I think...
0:30:51 > 0:30:54we all got through that and we are who we are today.
0:30:55 > 0:31:00There's nothing worse than a person that's had a bad upbringing,
0:31:00 > 0:31:04that blames the way their life has turned out on their upbringing.
0:31:04 > 0:31:09Where Louise and her family don't do that, they just get on with it.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19- Who's minding Imogen? - Imogen, what you doing?
0:31:19 > 0:31:23I'm getting... Shut that window, you. You little slag.
0:31:30 > 0:31:32Are you?
0:31:36 > 0:31:40Back on Brentford Street the police raid hasn't dampened spirits.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43Sherelle and some of the lads from the street are off to a party
0:31:43 > 0:31:46and she's dropping Kyrel off with friends for the night.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48No hands, no hands.
0:31:51 > 0:31:56You're going to Dylan's, see you later. Give me a kiss.
0:31:56 > 0:31:57Go on.
0:32:04 > 0:32:06- Mummy, where you going?- Dylan!
0:32:06 > 0:32:09Dylan, Cherie's waiting for you.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12'No, I don't work at the moment,
0:32:12 > 0:32:16'but I'd like to find a job, like, soon, cos it's rather boring.'
0:32:16 > 0:32:18So have you been inside?
0:32:18 > 0:32:21Yeah, I got out not last year, the year before.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23'Sometimes it pisses me off, just not doing nothing,
0:32:23 > 0:32:27'sitting there, waiting for me son to finish school.
0:32:27 > 0:32:29'I'd like to work in a hospital, me,'
0:32:29 > 0:32:30be a nurse or something,
0:32:30 > 0:32:32cos I just, like...
0:32:32 > 0:32:35When I watch, like, operations and that,
0:32:35 > 0:32:37I like to watch it.
0:32:39 > 0:32:40See you later!
0:32:42 > 0:32:44See you later, son!
0:32:44 > 0:32:49'Nothing's stopping me from doing that, but...it's just...'
0:32:49 > 0:32:51I don't know where to start!
0:32:51 > 0:32:53Where would I start?
0:32:53 > 0:32:55I don't know.
0:32:55 > 0:33:00A famous rapper that don't even write his own bars.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03'I know I'd have to go to uni and all that, but...'
0:33:03 > 0:33:06yeah, it's never too late, is it?
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Maddy's starting at her new high school next week,
0:33:13 > 0:33:16but she's enjoying the last few days of her holiday
0:33:16 > 0:33:19staying up late with big sister Amber.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27Meanwhile, Mum and Dad are at work
0:33:27 > 0:33:29investigating a crime at Wishy Washy.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32Karen and Paul run service washes
0:33:32 > 0:33:36for customers who want their laundry done for them.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Earlier today they left a service wash running in the machines
0:33:39 > 0:33:44and CCTV evidence suggests the clothes have been stolen.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48Look, there's the cloths... and the bottles.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50There's a shirt.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53- There's his trackies. - There's his trackies.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55I want every bit of them back, Paul.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58A bunch of mip-mops!
0:34:00 > 0:34:05Got you, you sweaty old fanny-arse! I'm right round at her house.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19PHONE RINGS
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Hi, Stacy, do you know what's happened?
0:34:21 > 0:34:23Just took a service wash back, right?
0:34:23 > 0:34:25All his clothes are missing, we've just watched the CCTV.
0:34:25 > 0:34:30Sticky-fingered Lil's been at it again, she took all his clothes.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34- 'Oh.'- I'm furious, I'm going round there now.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43I own the laundrette.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46You stole some washing, come to the door.
0:34:46 > 0:34:50Come to the door.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52Open your door.
0:34:52 > 0:34:55What's wrong, love?
0:34:55 > 0:34:57You stole some washing from the launderette,
0:34:57 > 0:35:00I want it back now. I want it back now.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03I've got you on the CCTV...with your fat-arsed mate, stealing washing.
0:35:03 > 0:35:05And the bottles and the cloths,
0:35:05 > 0:35:07we want it back, we got tracksuit bot...
0:35:07 > 0:35:09Are they the grey tracksuit bottoms?
0:35:09 > 0:35:12- Yeah.- She's got them on. - Get them off.- She's got them on!
0:35:12 > 0:35:14No, they're me own, love.
0:35:14 > 0:35:18You got the tracky bottoms on your legs, we want them back.
0:35:18 > 0:35:22No, that's not your tracksuit bottoms, love.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24You were warned last time you nicked washing
0:35:24 > 0:35:26- not to come near my shop again. - Well, I haven't got nothing...
0:35:26 > 0:35:29You have, you've got all the items of washing, we want them back.
0:35:29 > 0:35:30I haven't got nothing!
0:35:30 > 0:35:35I don't like rowing, me, but I'm flipping good at it.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38- Get the fuck away from my door. - No, I won't!
0:35:38 > 0:35:39I won't, I want my stuff back,
0:35:39 > 0:35:42don't you dare speak to me like that, you old crow.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44With no prospect of getting their washing back,
0:35:44 > 0:35:47Karen and Paul are in for a long night.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54Others in Harpurhey are hoping for a more relaxing evening.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56CALLER: Seven and one, 71.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00Four and seven, 47.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02- Argh!- What about me, I wanted 46.
0:36:02 > 0:36:03I wanted 13.
0:36:03 > 0:36:06Four and three, 43.
0:36:06 > 0:36:10Pregnant Louise comes to the bingo every week with her dad, Matthew.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12It's where they spend quality time together
0:36:12 > 0:36:15now Matthew has left his criminal life behind.
0:36:16 > 0:36:2077, all the sevens, 77.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22Have you been going to your pregnancy classes and that?
0:36:22 > 0:36:27I've got the midwife on the Tuesday morning and then a class after it.
0:36:27 > 0:36:32I want to ask for a water birth, but they're not always available.
0:36:32 > 0:36:33Yeah.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36Since he's been off the drugs we're really close.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Now it's more like father-daughter relationship
0:36:38 > 0:36:41where we actually enjoy spending time with each other,
0:36:41 > 0:36:45and it's just changed so much for the better.
0:36:45 > 0:36:50That psychic said I was having it, erm, two week early, didn't she?
0:36:50 > 0:36:54- Oh?- Well, don't know. I hope not, cos I'm not ready.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57'I'm proud of Louise because she just...'
0:36:57 > 0:37:00For what life she's had and how good her life is now,
0:37:00 > 0:37:02and she's dead happy
0:37:02 > 0:37:05'and you can see it in her. I think she'll be a top mum,'
0:37:05 > 0:37:07she's very caring, she always has been.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Three and two, 32.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12Seven and eight, 78.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17Karen and Paul are still on the trail of the suspected laundry thief
0:37:17 > 0:37:19and now the police are involved.
0:37:21 > 0:37:26Well, I think she's wearing a pair of the grey tracksuit bottoms.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29They've brought a healthy amount of backup.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31PHONE RINGS
0:37:31 > 0:37:32'Hello.'
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Shouldn't you be in bed now?
0:37:34 > 0:37:36It may be gone midnight,
0:37:36 > 0:37:39but it's not too late for Maddy to call in a sandwich order to Mum.
0:37:44 > 0:37:45You should be asleep,
0:37:45 > 0:37:47you shouldn't be thinking about a sandwich at this time.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Is your sister asleep, is Amber asleep now?
0:37:50 > 0:37:52Well, I'll have to... As soon as we've finished here,
0:37:52 > 0:37:54I'll have to go to the garage and then just get you one
0:37:54 > 0:37:56and then you go to sleep, lady.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00Right, I'm going now, cos they're bringing her out.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05- She's got insomnia.- Come on.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07Right, I'm going in.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11Hopefully we'll have you back soon, won't we?
0:38:16 > 0:38:19She deserves everything she gets.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23The suspect was never charged with the crime
0:38:23 > 0:38:26and is adamant that she didn't steal the clothes.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28After helping the police,
0:38:28 > 0:38:30Karen and Paul don't get home until two in the morning,
0:38:30 > 0:38:35but Maddy's still awake and in no hurry to go to bed.
0:38:35 > 0:38:36- Maddy?- Yeah.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40- I've just got to take the dogs. - Taking the dogs out.
0:38:40 > 0:38:41Can't I come?
0:38:41 > 0:38:44She wants to know if she can come.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46My mum has definitely gone a lot soft on Madison
0:38:46 > 0:38:50than she was with me, cos as a child I had a, like,
0:38:50 > 0:38:53a strict, erm, when I went to bed and stuff.
0:38:53 > 0:38:57But I listened to my mum, I was always in bed for, like, seven
0:38:57 > 0:38:59when I was, like, a younger kid.
0:38:59 > 0:39:03But Madison's never had a set time, ever.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05DOG BARKS Oh, no, no.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08Can't put up with that all the way to the park.
0:39:08 > 0:39:09Crystal!
0:39:09 > 0:39:10What time is it?
0:39:10 > 0:39:12Very late, Maddy.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14Yeah, but what time?
0:39:14 > 0:39:16You're talking 2 o'clock gone.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20- That's how long I've been awake for? - Yeah, it's ridiculous.
0:39:20 > 0:39:25This crap, "Can I come to the park with you and take the dogs?"
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Normal families will sit down and watch telly,
0:39:39 > 0:39:40and then go to bed.
0:39:40 > 0:39:43When they're all going to bed, we're taking the dogs to the park
0:39:43 > 0:39:44at, like, three in the morning.
0:39:44 > 0:39:48MUSIC: "Men In Black" By Will Smith
0:39:48 > 0:39:50We're not like normal people,
0:39:50 > 0:39:52but I don't like normal people, I find them boring.
0:39:56 > 0:40:01'I love my family, like, millions and millions.'
0:40:01 > 0:40:03Like, if you had to say to me,
0:40:03 > 0:40:07'"What's more important - your life or your family?"
0:40:07 > 0:40:09'I would probably say my family.'
0:40:09 > 0:40:11I wouldn't really care what happens in my life
0:40:11 > 0:40:13as long as I'm with my family.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15# Let me see you just bouncin' with me
0:40:15 > 0:40:16# Just bounce with me
0:40:16 > 0:40:18# Just bouncin' with me, come on
0:40:18 > 0:40:19# Let me see you just slide with me
0:40:19 > 0:40:21# Just slide with me Just slide with me
0:40:21 > 0:40:23# Come on, let me see you Take a walk with me
0:40:23 > 0:40:26# Just walkin' with me Take a walk with me, come on
0:40:26 > 0:40:28# And make your neck work
0:40:29 > 0:40:32- # Now freeze - Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh
0:40:32 > 0:40:35# Here come the men in black... #
0:40:35 > 0:40:38You're the most buggin' pair of people I've ever met.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44# Here come the men in black
0:40:44 > 0:40:46# Men in black
0:40:46 > 0:40:49- # They won't let you remember - No, no, no
0:40:49 > 0:40:51# All right, check it Let me tell you this
0:40:51 > 0:40:54# And closin' I know we might seem imposin'... #
0:41:06 > 0:41:07See you.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12Today, Sherelle's mum, Mandy, is going to the police station.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14She's attending a meeting
0:41:14 > 0:41:18about the complaints of antisocial behaviour on Brentford Street.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20It's not the first time Mandy's been summoned to the station,
0:41:20 > 0:41:24although she has no criminal record.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27I've been at a meeting at the police station before for loud music,
0:41:27 > 0:41:29and they have took me system away.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34Erm, but it's just that there's so many people around the table,
0:41:34 > 0:41:38and me, by meself, it is nerve-racking.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40It can be, yeah.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43Because the complaint's involved Nik's tenants,
0:41:43 > 0:41:45he's been asked to attend the meeting as well.
0:41:45 > 0:41:49I always wear suit and tie when I'm in courts,
0:41:49 > 0:41:52or the police stations, or all things like that.
0:41:54 > 0:41:56It's an accountant's tie.
0:41:56 > 0:41:59It always means trouble when I've got my tie on.
0:41:59 > 0:42:03- Hi.- Come in, Mandy.- Yeah.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10Mandy's neighbour, Katie, is also attending.
0:42:10 > 0:42:15The meeting with council officials and police is behind police doors.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20Despite her late night,
0:42:20 > 0:42:22Karen and Paul are dragging Maddy out of bed
0:42:22 > 0:42:25in preparation for school in two days' time.
0:42:25 > 0:42:26Come on, girlie.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28Going to help us at the shop?
0:42:28 > 0:42:31I'm really tired.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33Have you seen the time, lady? 10.30.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38You know what time you've got to start getting up soon, don't you?
0:42:38 > 0:42:40- Oh.- Half seven every morning,
0:42:40 > 0:42:43we don't know how you're going to do it.
0:42:43 > 0:42:44'Maddy gets tired...
0:42:44 > 0:42:46'When it comes to morning, Maddy's really moody,'
0:42:46 > 0:42:50but that moody, like, she ends up just screaming the house down.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53I'm tired, Mum!
0:42:53 > 0:42:56Children over 16 years old - sorry you don't fall into that category.
0:42:56 > 0:42:59- I won't give you any anyhow. - Well, I'm tired.
0:42:59 > 0:43:03I don't care. Turning into a little drug addict at 11 years old?
0:43:03 > 0:43:06You're not allowed 'em, I knew you wouldn't be allowed them.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Maddy, go and get dressed, we've got to go.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Do you want some ProPlus?
0:43:10 > 0:43:14I fucking need something. Look down, look down.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16Go down, Paul, get in the car.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18See you, Amb...
0:43:20 > 0:43:22This family do my nut in.
0:43:30 > 0:43:31In a bid to improve her behaviour,
0:43:31 > 0:43:34Mum and Dad want Maddy to help out at the launderette.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36Go on, I've got a job for you now.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38Enid Blyton.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40Maddy. Come on.
0:43:42 > 0:43:43No.
0:43:44 > 0:43:48- You're not going to earn any spends. Come on.- Now.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52You have five seconds.
0:43:55 > 0:43:57Start folding.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Mum, do I have to help you?
0:44:04 > 0:44:08You're not slamming about in front of people.
0:44:08 > 0:44:11What do you want me to do, Your Majesty(?)
0:44:16 > 0:44:19I feel sorry for me parents because, like,
0:44:19 > 0:44:20they've brought me up and that,
0:44:20 > 0:44:22and I shouldn't really be mean to them.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Hmm, but I don't know where I got, like,
0:44:27 > 0:44:30all this kicking and punching stuff, like, from.
0:44:30 > 0:44:35But, like...I don't know why,
0:44:35 > 0:44:37but I'm always miserable.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43A bit tired.
0:44:55 > 0:44:58Right, where we having your parting, chuck?
0:44:58 > 0:44:59This side?
0:44:59 > 0:45:03Over at Stax, it's business as usual - almost.
0:45:03 > 0:45:05Louise has started labour
0:45:05 > 0:45:08and she's come to the salon to take her mind off the pain.
0:45:08 > 0:45:13Now you're on me arse! I've not got arse-ache.
0:45:13 > 0:45:19Well, she went in labour I think about fiveish yesterday afternoon,
0:45:19 > 0:45:23and then I think she went early hours to the hospital
0:45:23 > 0:45:25and then obviously come home.
0:45:25 > 0:45:29And then she went at eight o'clock this morning, but it's still...
0:45:29 > 0:45:31She's come home, hasn't she?
0:45:31 > 0:45:33So she's in very slow labour, isn't she?
0:45:33 > 0:45:36They just said get a warm bath
0:45:36 > 0:45:39and just try and get some sleep in between,
0:45:39 > 0:45:42and then obviously wait until they're closer together,
0:45:42 > 0:45:44the contractions, and then go back.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46They need to be more frequent.
0:45:46 > 0:45:49Donna sent for me.
0:45:49 > 0:45:52She just wants to see me in pain so she can laugh at me.
0:45:52 > 0:45:53No, not at all!
0:45:55 > 0:45:59Well, we was all hoping it'd be over and done with today
0:45:59 > 0:46:02cos I need to get out on the piss with her
0:46:02 > 0:46:04and it's just delaying it even more.
0:46:05 > 0:46:08We can't wait to go out and wet the baby's head.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11When I see babies in buggies,
0:46:11 > 0:46:13I'm not one of these that are like, go up and,
0:46:13 > 0:46:16"Oh, look at the baby!" And all that.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19I'm not that way, really. In fact, I couldn't really be bothered.
0:46:19 > 0:46:23But I do it, obviously, because it's the nice thing to do, isn't it?
0:46:25 > 0:46:27It's being polite. But, no, I'm not maternal.
0:46:27 > 0:46:31I'll text you later, see you later.
0:46:31 > 0:46:33See you in a bit, girl.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35I feel for her.
0:46:35 > 0:46:37It's better when it's quick and it's over and done with, innit?
0:46:39 > 0:46:41On Brentford Street,
0:46:41 > 0:46:45Katie and Mandy are back from their meeting at the police station.
0:46:45 > 0:46:46They've received a clear warning -
0:46:46 > 0:46:50if they can't control the visitors hanging around outside their houses
0:46:50 > 0:46:52someone will have to go.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55Yeah, but we're going to get chucked out, and at the end of the day,
0:46:55 > 0:46:58I'm not getting chucked out for no fucker, I'm not.
0:46:58 > 0:47:00Yeah, well, where's the ASBOs?
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Hello!
0:47:02 > 0:47:04Can youse go somewhere else, chook,
0:47:04 > 0:47:07cos I'm not getting kicked out for no kids, right?
0:47:07 > 0:47:08I've got kids!
0:47:10 > 0:47:11You're not here for nothing,
0:47:11 > 0:47:14go and find another street to go and terrorise!
0:47:14 > 0:47:16All right, and I'm not even doing nowt.
0:47:16 > 0:47:17No, smoking bongs, no...
0:47:17 > 0:47:20I'm talking to all of youse, smoking weed down there.
0:47:20 > 0:47:22Who's getting the shit for it?
0:47:22 > 0:47:24The police have just phoned me,
0:47:24 > 0:47:28you are stood there smoking it, he's related to you, there you go.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32No, go, I'm not having it,
0:47:32 > 0:47:35youse all need to really have a bit of respect and erm, do what we say.
0:47:35 > 0:47:37Cos at the end of the day, if we do what we say,
0:47:37 > 0:47:39keep our doors shut and youse are still on here,
0:47:39 > 0:47:42you'll all get removed yourself by the police, it won't be our fault.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45You know, I say it until I'm blue in the face, I've got four babies,
0:47:45 > 0:47:47if it was just me I wouldn't be bothered.
0:47:47 > 0:47:49And I know things affect me really badly
0:47:49 > 0:47:52where I get so emotional about it... It's just a joke,
0:47:52 > 0:47:54everyone just thinks it's some big joke, and it's not,
0:47:54 > 0:47:56not when it's people's lives
0:47:56 > 0:47:59that are getting fucked up in the process, it's not a joke,
0:47:59 > 0:48:00do you know what I mean?
0:48:11 > 0:48:13Mads, are you scared about tomorrow?
0:48:13 > 0:48:14Yeah.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16Why?
0:48:16 > 0:48:18It's the night before Maddy starts school
0:48:18 > 0:48:21and finally she's ready for bed by 9pm.
0:48:21 > 0:48:25Well, my worries are, like, of people bullying me
0:48:25 > 0:48:28and getting, like, scared and that.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31At school I was naughty.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34Very naughty! Yeah, I was naughty.
0:48:34 > 0:48:37Yeah, I got expelled from school, me.
0:48:37 > 0:48:41I hope Madison will be better than me at school, yeah, definitely.
0:48:41 > 0:48:44That's one thing I will drum into her head, is education.
0:48:44 > 0:48:45I'll be strict on that.
0:48:45 > 0:48:49Anyway, you'll have a good day, so, night.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51Good night.
0:48:51 > 0:48:54You little stupid girl!
0:48:54 > 0:48:56'Madison at high school...'
0:48:56 > 0:48:59she's definitely, like, going to mature and get older.
0:48:59 > 0:49:02'Like, I reckon high school will really sort her out.'
0:49:02 > 0:49:03Good night, babe.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06There's nowt to be scared about when you go to school tomorrow.
0:49:06 > 0:49:08All right?
0:49:09 > 0:49:11'If I do well at school, like,
0:49:11 > 0:49:14'it means I'm not really, like, ignorant and rude
0:49:14 > 0:49:16'and always naughty.
0:49:16 > 0:49:19'Cos, like, it's just not a life you'd really want.'
0:49:19 > 0:49:23See you in the morning. Want your light out?
0:49:41 > 0:49:44At the local hospital, Louise's labour is in the final stages.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47Boyfriend Johnny is on hand for support.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51I just want it over and done with so she's not in that much pain,
0:49:51 > 0:49:53but knowing that you can't do anything about it,
0:49:53 > 0:49:55she's just got to run her course.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58I'm crapping it a little bit, to be honest.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04Down the pub, her dad, Matthew,
0:50:04 > 0:50:07is wetting the baby's head in anticipation.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09I don't like her going through pain.
0:50:09 > 0:50:11That's why I come away,
0:50:11 > 0:50:13I thought, "I'll go for a pint, that'll be easier."
0:50:13 > 0:50:15I'm getting pissed, basically!
0:50:15 > 0:50:19I'm celebrating. She's on the way, and that'll do me.
0:50:19 > 0:50:22BABY CRIES
0:50:22 > 0:50:28After a 32-hour labour, Louise gives birth to a healthy baby boy.
0:50:28 > 0:50:29Hello.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32'I know that I'm going to make a good parent
0:50:32 > 0:50:35'and give me child everything that I've got.
0:50:35 > 0:50:36'I want to be like that normal family
0:50:36 > 0:50:38'you see walking down the street
0:50:38 > 0:50:40'with their mum and dads, and their cosy home and stuff,
0:50:40 > 0:50:43'instead of, like, going the way my mum and dad did.'
0:50:55 > 0:50:58On Brentford Street the atmosphere has calmed down for now.
0:50:58 > 0:51:01It has been quiet for the last couple of weeks,
0:51:01 > 0:51:05so it's been quite peaceful, it's been almost blissful.
0:51:10 > 0:51:13Sherelle and her friend are taking Kyrel to nursery school.
0:51:15 > 0:51:18'Since I've been out of prison it's been...
0:51:18 > 0:51:20'This is my third Christmas now.
0:51:20 > 0:51:23'As much as I'd love to go and jump in a stolen car.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26'and have a drive, but I've got to stay out of trouble.
0:51:26 > 0:51:29'I don't want to get involved no more.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32'If you've got a kid, yeah, everything changes.
0:51:32 > 0:51:35'If I didn't have my son I probably would be back in jail.'
0:51:38 > 0:51:40Karen and Paul are picking up Maddy
0:51:40 > 0:51:42from her first day at secondary school.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44Going to go up and meet her?
0:51:45 > 0:51:47I'm going to go out, yeah.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52'Madison means the world to Paul.
0:51:52 > 0:51:55'Even though he don't show it,'
0:51:55 > 0:51:58it's his daughter, so he... You know what I mean? He loves her.
0:51:58 > 0:52:00He does love her, even though he's strict.
0:52:00 > 0:52:03But I know he'd die for the kids.
0:52:03 > 0:52:04Yeah.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09As an after-school treat, Paul takes Maddy fishing.
0:52:09 > 0:52:11See where the trees are here?
0:52:11 > 0:52:13- Yeah.- The fish are...
0:52:13 > 0:52:17You catch more fish than me, like, you're going in there.
0:52:19 > 0:52:25'We should be closer than, like, what we are I think, you know?
0:52:25 > 0:52:28'And it's probably my fault, I don't try hard enough.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31'You know?'
0:52:31 > 0:52:34What you do is, when you throw it out, let go, straight away.
0:52:36 > 0:52:39That's it, there you go, bang-on.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41So how does it feel going to big school now,
0:52:41 > 0:52:44now that you know you're going?
0:52:44 > 0:52:45A little bit nervous.
0:52:45 > 0:52:49Yeah. There's no need to be, though.
0:52:49 > 0:52:52But all you have to do is work that little bit harder
0:52:52 > 0:52:53at school in your lessons,
0:52:53 > 0:52:55you know, listen to what the teacher says.
0:52:55 > 0:52:59- Hmm.- Don't be always gabbing to your mates.
0:52:59 > 0:53:02And also your attitude, it's got to change at home, you know?
0:53:02 > 0:53:05- You've got to start doing things for your mum and helping her.- Yeah.
0:53:05 > 0:53:06Are you listening?
0:53:06 > 0:53:10Yeah, I am, I'm just looking at the fish.
0:53:11 > 0:53:15I wasn't that much different to you, though.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17I had a bit of a temper if I couldn't get me own way.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20I never went to school or anything like that, you know what I mean?
0:53:20 > 0:53:23So everything I know I've sort of, like, learnt meself, like.
0:53:23 > 0:53:25self-taught, you know?
0:53:25 > 0:53:28But how did you teach yourself that good?
0:53:28 > 0:53:31- I'm not that good. - Dad, you're brilliant.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34I'm... Yeah, like... That's... It's...
0:53:34 > 0:53:37It's good, like, I've got all my achievements now,
0:53:37 > 0:53:40you know what I mean? I've got you, I've got your mum.
0:53:40 > 0:53:42Got Amber.
0:53:42 > 0:53:43Mm-hmm.
0:53:43 > 0:53:46But I want you to be more than what you can be.
0:53:46 > 0:53:49- Hmm.- You know what I mean?
0:53:49 > 0:53:53I want you to be able to go out and take hold of what you want.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56'I love her.'
0:53:56 > 0:53:59She's my girl, you know what I mean?
0:53:59 > 0:54:01She looks a lot like me, yeah.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04She thinks a lot like me, you know.
0:54:05 > 0:54:08'No, she's my girl, she's my baby. Yeah.'
0:54:10 > 0:54:12Is that bobbing?
0:54:12 > 0:54:14It looks like it to me.
0:54:16 > 0:54:18Thank you, Dad.
0:54:29 > 0:54:35He's called Logan and she had him at 25 past one last night, early hours.
0:54:35 > 0:54:38Water birth, everything fine, perfect.
0:54:38 > 0:54:41- She's home, she's at Johnny's mum's. - Is she?- Yeah.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43- So everything's fine.- That's good.
0:54:43 > 0:54:47Later on, baby Logan pays his first visit to Stax.
0:54:47 > 0:54:49- Congratulations.- Thank you!
0:54:49 > 0:54:52You look really well. You look really well.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55Give us a kiss.
0:54:55 > 0:55:00- Is he feeding on you?- Yeah. - Brilliant. Brilliant.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02Too often if you ask me!
0:55:02 > 0:55:04- Too often.- Yeah. Greedy.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13Come on then, lad, let's have a look at you.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15Let's have a look at you, eh?
0:55:15 > 0:55:20Oh, he's gorgeous, aren't you, eh?
0:55:20 > 0:55:24Yes, he is. I'm your auntie Donna and I'm going to do your head in.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26Yes, I am, yes, I am.
0:55:26 > 0:55:28You'll know my voice.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31SHE LAUGHS
0:55:33 > 0:55:37Over on Brentford Street, life's peaceful.
0:55:37 > 0:55:41There have been no evictions and no further complaints about noise.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43What you putting your head in for?
0:55:43 > 0:55:44As the summer draws to a close,
0:55:44 > 0:55:48it's time for the street to sample Cathie's latest rhubarb crop.
0:55:48 > 0:55:50Right, enjoy it.
0:55:55 > 0:55:59Next time, market trader Jamie is dreaming of pop stardom,
0:55:59 > 0:56:03but his mum's not happy about his unlikely mentor.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05- A bit louder?- Argh.
0:56:05 > 0:56:08I don't give a shit who she is and what she is,
0:56:08 > 0:56:11you need to ask Belinda what do you get out of this?
0:56:11 > 0:56:15The Wishy Washy launderette has had a break-in through the roof.
0:56:15 > 0:56:18It's disgusting. You just wouldn't think they'd do it here.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21And the local dance school are putting on their summer show,
0:56:21 > 0:56:24but it's proving hard work for trainee teacher Kelly.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27I need to just cool down, I'm so stressed out.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29# Celebrate good times, come on! #
0:56:37 > 0:56:40Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd