Episode 6 People Like Us

This programme contains strong language.

North of the city centre is a Manchester suburb called Harpurhey.

They say the area's full of rough families.

I don't think it's such a bad place.

Ten years ago a government report branded it the most deprived neighbourhood in England.

-It's a simple question I asked.

-Yeah, and I'm trying to answer it.

Things have got a bit better since then

but life round here is still no bed of roses.

There's a local expression -

they'd steal the shit out of your arse.

Not cos they want it, just so that you haven't got it.

Half the people have no qualifications

and antisocial behaviour is rife.

-Are you the neighbour from hell?

-Probably, yeah.

People round here might not be the poshest

but they're not lacking in spirit.

That's why we call ourselves the dysfunctionals.

They're just trying to get on with life, be themselves...

I ain't driving the van like this.

..and follow their dreams.

I could be, like, a different person when I'm acting.

Tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

For one long summer, the young people of Harpurhey let us

into their secret world.

ALL: # I have a penis I shake it in the morning... #

Sharing the good times...

Megan Fox eat your heart out.

..and the bad.

Hello! Go and find another street to go and terrorise.

This is how it really feels growing up the hard way.

Youse might think you know people like us

but you don't know nothing yet!

This week we meet likely lads Aaron and Mikee, who are trying not

to let partying get in the way of them building a new business.

It will work, there's no alternative. It's this or not.

Best mates Jazmine and Kelsea are enjoying their last summer

together, before one of them moves out of the area.

I'm going to the park that everyone calls a park

but it's got chickens on it, it's called

a chicken park but I call it a park anyway.

So we're going there.

Exercise guru Javeno

is planning a mass workout day to get the locals fit.

It's supposed to hurt. It's not supposed to feel good.

Dogs are acting really weird tonight.

And the Wakefields feel the time has come to deal

with their resident poltergeist, Malcolm.

If you don't like us, then get out of our house.

Do something, will you, for God's sake, you old fart?

On the high street is the Wishy Washy launderette.

It's been run by Paul and Karen for six years.

Get me money back out of the machine or else I'll never see that again.

Daughters Amber and Maddy are not impressed.

Me mum's been working in the launderette for years

and, to be honest, I think she's just bored senseless.

Going to the hospital next week, Paul.

Today, mum Karen is passing the time teasing Paul about having

colonic irrigation.

50 quid to get a tube put up your arse.

Are you having a fricking laugh?

It is my hobby, winding Paul up.

I buzz off it, I do, I love it. Seriously.

Amber said she's seen it on Geordie Shore.

As long as she's fricking paying for hers.

Or I'll do it for 25.

No, you get, you get cleaned out proper.

All the toxins out of your body.

It's good for weight loss and that and it, it,

it's good for your skin, Amber's definitely getting it done,

she said, "Why don't you come with us, Mum?" What more can you ask for?

Day out with your daughter to have a tube put up your ring piece.

Do you want to come with us?

Me mum's that bored, she's just looking for a bit of spice

in her life and she gets that a lot with Malcolm.

For the last three years, the Wakefields believe their family

home has been haunted by Malcolm, their resident poltergeist.

Malcolm is apparently this guy who lives in the house.

He's very mischievous, like, he does stuff, like, he hides stuff from ya.

Apparently, he won't leave the house cos he likes to torment us.

Malcolm has become such a nuisance,

the Wakefields have asked some ghost-hunters to

visit their house and have it out with the mischievous spirit.

Malcolm's been around us for that long, yeah,

he might as well be a, be a part of the family.

I'm thinking of starting to charge him rent, you know.

Lives there, cough up.

I won't go downstairs on me own but er...

-She won't go for piss on her own.

-No, won't do that.

That's why I stay upstairs, I feel safe upstairs

but I don't like it downstairs.

Ghost-hunters Bob and Pete have tried to contact Malcolm before,

via Ouija board but with little success.

When you get Malcolm on the Ouija board, he's, um...

He's a twat. To be blunt.

Because he won't communicate,

he won't tell you what you want to know.

Karen's so spooked by the unusual events in the house,

that the investigators have agreed to try and contact Malcolm again

and reason with him.

The first job is to confirm they're talking to the right spirit.

Can you please give us the first initial,

the first letter of your first name?

Malcolm's real, he's there, so it's not,

it's not like an imaginary friend, cos he's there.

He's actually in the house.

Is your name Malcolm?

-What?!

-Oh, it's made me stomach go.

It's all right, don't worry, just put your finger back on the glass.

But did you, did you...? Please tell me you heard that. I've got goose pimples.

People that say we're cranks... Well, fair enough, that's their...

They want to believe in what they want to believe in.

Oh, flipping heck.

Yeah, but we know different, you know,

until you've experienced it, don't open your mouth about it.

Do you mean to scare them, Malcolm?

Does he pick on anyone in particular?

Put the glass towards who.

Send the glass to the person we think...

-OK.

-You, Kaz.

It is, he always gets me the most.

Apparently Malcolm's out to just get me mum because he knows he don't

get a reaction off me and Paul, and I think my mum secretly loves it.

See ya later, Malcolm.

Bye.

Aah! See, he listened to you then.

With many questions left unanswered,

the family's pursuit of Malcolm is not over yet.

At a precinct north of Harpurhey, 20-year-old best mates,

Aaron and Mikee, are trying to drum up interest in their new

painting and decorating business.

Are we moving in? Are you moving in for the kill?

But the offers of work are not exactly flooding in.

Excuse me, love.

Oh, fair enough. Chopped! It's fine, don't worry about it.

Both the lads left school at 16 and have been sacked from low-paid jobs.

I got just like little crappy jobs here and there, working at Currys,

working at Next, working at Sainsbury's and none of 'em I liked.

We've just started up a painting and decorating business.

We do joinery, tiling, electrics.

I've always wanted to work for me-self.

I've never really been a big fan of the whole having someone

on your back, telling ya, sort of, do this, do that, do this, do that.

-All right, love? Are we all right to leave you with a flyer?

-Yeah.

Basically, we've just started our own painting and decorating business

and nobody else is as young and strapping as us two.

So, in all fairness, nobody kind of...

-That just totally failed.

-Is as good as us. So take a flyer,

Keep us in mind. Tiling, joinery, electrics, painting and decorating.

-Come and do your house, nice and cheap.

-All right, thanks.

-You rescued me.

-See ya later.

You rescued me on that one. I flopped it.

Yeah, Mikee can be a bit of a knob, I guess.

That was like a proper cheeky opportunity

and I just ruined it, totally ruined it.

I've known him for a long time. He's my knob, no-one else's knob.

The boys are desperate to be their own bosses

but if they don't start earning in the next two months,

they'll have to kiss goodbye their dreams of running their own business.

This is the only plan.

This is Plan A, there is no Plan B, like, it has to work.

Shall we pitch it to the dog?

And just give the dog a flyer to chew on.

Hold me up.

A couple of miles down the road, in the centre of Harpurhey,

best mates Jazmine and Kelsea are making use of the local leisure facilities.

When people want to know where I'm going,

I say, "I'm going to the park that everyone calls a park

"but it's got chickens on it, it's called

"a chicken park but it's not really a park but I call it a park anyway.

"So we're going there." That's where we're going.

This is the chicken park. See, can you see the chickens?

This is the chicken park.

14-year-old Jazmine and 15-year-old Kelsea live a minute

away from each other and have been friends for four years.

My nickname is Jazzy-shay and hers is Kelco.

She's really clever, she's beautiful, she's funny,

she's just out there and amazing.

Dunno what that is, ladybird, caterpillar, I'm guessing, and a monkey.

-What the heck is that?

-A tiger.

Er, it's meant to be a little kids park

but this is how it turned out to be.

As you can see on the floor, it's not a place for little kids

to be cos of all the glass and a brick and plastic and yeah, so...

The two friends have a great time hanging out in Harpurhey, although

recently a few racist incidents have spoiled Jazmine's experience.

I was sat here with my friend

and then these little kids were shouting "lesbians" and all that.

So we was like "whatever".

And then these small kids were coming up to us,

spitting at us and throwing glass at us, so we stood up

and walked away and then one of them punched me in the back

of the head and then, yeah,

and they were calling us, like, you know, black bitches and niggers

and they just kept saying it over and over again.

So we got frustrated and then walked home.

These racist incidents have forced Jazmine's mum Jaki

to consider drastic action.

The area's got so bad and, like, my mum is making us, you know,

move away and it is, like, devastating.

I'm absolutely sick of

the chaos, the street violence, the antisocial behaviour,

the threats, the intimidation,

harassment that my children have had,

and it's my duty as their parent to take them somewhere safe.

It's been a difficult decision for Jaki who, despite Jazmine's

experiences, believes there's a strong community spirit in the area.

Apart from it being, you know, really scary at times,

there's the other side of it.

Some of the people are just absolutely lovely.

It's that friendliness

and that very down to earth sort of place where there's not much

airs and graces as such and people don't generally fake it too much.

With a move on the cards, this could be Jazmine

and Kelsea's last summer together.

When I first found out that we're moving I was quite shocked

and I remember crying for a little bit in my room.

I can't believe it's actually coming down to this.

See, you can do it now and I'm practically not holding ya.

Aaron and Mikee's flyering campaign has not been successful and

the wannabe painter-decorators are still no closer to getting a job.

-You what, mate?

-£5.

With barely enough cash for essential purchases,

it's time for the lads to rethink their tactics.

We can't be fussy about what kind

of work we're taking at the moment,

whether it's a dingy little bathroom somewhere

or a full apartment paint.

At the end of the day, we've got to take everything to progress

a bit further and make our money and do what we're doing.

Our competition are, like, middle-aged, balding fat guys,

who can barely climb a ladder without dislocating a hip.

I'll bring the roller, you bring your boyish charm and Justin Bieber looks.

Justin Bieber?

We've both got a lot riding on it, we've got a lot of money in it

and we have to succeed with it cos we can't afford not to.

Cos if we fail, then we're fucked.

People try and sugar coat everything and say... Slag!

..you don't have to make a fortune to be successful or all that

kind of bollocks that they come out with.

Slag!

Mikee's dad left when he was three

and they only had sporadic contact as he was growing up.

I remember not seeing him for ages and I got a letter off him

or something through the post and, er, it was a letter

saying something like, "Sorry I've not been in touch, I've been in prison for the last two years,"

or something. I was like, "Fair enough."

Mikee's determined to stay on the straight and narrow

and make a go of his business, especially now he's a father.

I'd just left school, er, I turned 16 and then me little boy was born.

Er, me and his mum split up not too long after that.

My experiences with my dad when I was growing up

definitely make me want to be a better dad.

You need to succeed for him to be able to look up to ya.

He's not going to look up to you if you're just some bum who's doing nothing with your life.

As long as you work hard for it, there's going to be something to hand down to your kids,

there's going to be something else but...

Slag!

The Wakefields believe their house is haunted by a poltergeist called Malcolm.

The team of paranormal investigators have been hard at work,

collecting what they think is further evidence of his existence.

That's Bob and that's Peter.

The result of the investigation have been uploaded onto YouTube.

Oh, there's a series of photographs of the stairs.

Karen is convinced there is now photographic evidence

of paranormal activity in her house.

-Oh, yeah.

-It's weird, that.

And then these shadows here

are like the ones what, like, someone walking up the stairs.

Yeah, but I thought he was walking down.

-Oh, yeah.

-That's weird, that.

I was just taking some random pictures of the stairs,

where you can see what appears to be a shadow emerging from the wall

and it looks like it's moving up the stairs.

Look, that, that looks like it's feet and then it, then it goes up.

Look at it, it's disappearing up.

Yeah, it's going up now, in't it?

We've never had that before, so this was extremely weird.

Me mum is like 100% sure that that is Malcolm on the stairs.

I'm not quite sure, I can't really put my finger on it.

There is definitely something walking down the stairs

and disappearing back up the stairs, but if it's Malcolm, I don't know.

Whilst recording an interview with the family, Bob and Pete's

specialist audio equipment captured an unexplained sound.

'But I don't notice him. MOANING

'What's that?'

It's funny how all our heads go... All of us.

-'Was that music?

-Is the telly on upstairs?'

'I thought it was a bit of a queer,'

you know, bit of a queer spook,

yeah, cos it sounded girlyfied sort of thing, you know.

Every single one of us heard that and you can tell we did.

Oooh! That sort of thing like, but challengingly.

Finally,

Karen believes she accidentally captured an image of Malcolm

while photographing the exterior of the house.

I was clicking and clicking and clicking, didn't I, with my phone?

Clicking and clicking and that's the outcome. We was only parked outside here.

But you didn't see it on your phone, did you, much?

No, I didn't see much, could tell something was there though.

Said to Paul, look at this picture, weird!

-That is definitely Malcolm.

-Looks like he's got a fag.

Somebody said it's Paul but Paul was sat next to me in the car.

He was sat next to me, it wasn't Paul.

Look there, don't that look like a tash?

Personally, I thought it looked like Fred Mercury, yeah,

cos he's got a fucking tash, a big, thick tash.

But he doesn't really frighten me.

I wouldn't sit in me bedroom, like, couldn't get to sleep

cos I think someone's there, just, I mean, I'm more intrigued.

The Wakefields are more convinced than ever they're being haunted,

so they've asked ghost-hunters Bob and Pete to return to

the house soon for one final showdown with Malcolm.

Javeno is a fitness instructor

on a one-man mission to get Harpurhey fit.

Going to make 'em hate me. Going to make 'em hate me.

If they don't hate me now they won't get any results.

So if they hate me, that means they're really pushing themselves.

Health is a major issue in Harpurhey

and life expectancy is seven years lower than the national average.

Forward with your hands. Hey, girls, let's go. Go for a walk, girls.

Javeno is known for his no-nonsense attitude when leading his classes.

Pick a heavy one, pick a challenging one. Is that challenging?

Is that challenging?

-OK, stand up with it, up towards your, is that too much?

-No.

So you was lying, weren't ya? Liar!

I don't believe any of 'em, they're all liars.

I don't believe what they say, so you could train here but if your

weight isn't going down, you're not being dedicated when I'm not there.

Give me a squat jump at the top, there we go.

There you go, but you've got to jump from that low position.

'Kim trains with me five times a week.

'If I see Kim coming out of a chippy,'

I'll go over and rip that thing out of her hand.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Moving on, moving on, nice.

A lot of the country is obese, a lot of Manchester is obese,

over here, I'm not saying everyone's massive,

but a lot of the people in North Manchester are very unfit.

Come across your body with your knee, beautiful, there you go.

I wouldn't be doing my job if I lie to people and say,

"Yeah, you're fit, you look great, you look great," when you don't.

Squat hold for the last 30.

Get your arse down. Four, three, two...

Javeno has a plan to spread his message of fitness in the area -

a free mass workout day for the locals.

So I'm going to do a big event.

I'm not sure what park yet. I'm going to pick a park,

do big outdoor event, like an exhibition.

It costs money if you've got to go to an expensive class or you've

got to join an expensive gym. The park's free.

For Javeno, the time has come to challenge those

in his community with an unhealthy lifestyle to change their ways.

When you go into most of these shops, the first thing that

you see is the bad stuff, it's all the sweets and the chocolate.

Straightaway.

This is one of the worst culprits of...

of people gaining weight as regards to the obesity levels.

That's it there, baby, that's the one, that, that's a star.

This is frigging... This is Robbie Williams,

the rest of them are Gary Barlow, this is Robbie Williams, this.

No-one's got a gun to your head saying, "Eat this, argh, eat it now!"

No-one's... No-one's doing that,

so why do you feel like you have to eat it?

It's a bit annoying actually.

Javeno has big plans for his fitness day

but he's only got two weeks to prepare.

This event should hopefully give a lot of people in the community

that little kick up the arse. Boo!

Just to say, you know what, let me get up and do something.

Can't afford to go to the gym. So what!

I can go in my park and I can do something.

14-year-old Jazmine's mum has made the difficult decision to

take her away from Harpurhey, after she became the target of racism.

Like, they'll call out Paki and it's, like, I'm not really Asian,

so obviously do you know, like, you're obviously wrong?

But they become, like, they just call me, like, nigger and just, like,

all sorts of just horrible stuff and it's just, like, well, whatever.

And I say whatever to it sometimes but sometimes

I get like really angry with it and I do kind of lose it sometimes.

Yeah.

Jazmine lives with her mum Jaki and younger sister J'anaie.

Jazmine's father left when she was a baby

and it was left to Jaki to bring her up alone.

Jazmine's behaviour did change,

as I recognised that she was becoming a very angry girl.

Just very moody and angry and it was very difficult to pinpoint.

Was it becoming a teenager, just rebelling

or is there something else going on?

After the racist attacks, Jazmine would retreat to her bedroom.

I'd basically punch the wall, I'd punch the bed, I'd just, just...

throw everything about, then I'd get my pillow and just start screaming

cos I didn't obviously want me mum to hear I was screaming

and then I used to grab my notebook

and then start writing my feelings down.

Nothing really prepares ya to deal with your children being

assaulted and abused because of the colour of their skin.

I don't think anything could prepare you for that.

Despite the racist incidents, Jazmine's family has enjoyed

living in the area, but feel the time has now come to move on.

Jaki has applied for them to move to a housing co-operative

on the other side of Manchester.

-Do you want to see some pictures of it, Kelsea?

-Oh, right.

You have your own little garden space

and they've got a communal bit.

-Where is it?

-Not far from Trafford, as well.

That's far away!

What, why do you want to leave me, though?

-It's not leaving you, we're never going to leave you.

-But you're leaving the area!

Yeah. We can live a better way.

-When people have a problem round here, what do they do?

-They just want to beat each other up.

The norm there is to actually sit down and have a discussion

and see if anyone needs any support,

and that way we can thrive as a community.

As opposed to disintegrate,

-which is how it appears to be round here these days.

-LOL!

That was putting it politely, disintegrate, weren't it?

-It's bedlam!

-LOL!

What are you going to miss most about me?

-Your craziness.

-Booming!

Your good sense of humour.

Like, just how you're so caring and that you're there for everyone.

I'm a bit sad because my partner's leaving me,

my partner in crime and she's going and, yeah, it's just sad times.

Don't know if this one's long enough, might have to use that fucking dopey one.

With still no paid work on the horizon for Aaron and Mikee...

Pull it in a bit.

..the lads are lending a hand,

building a ramp for Aaron's wheelchair-bound nana.

6'10" roughly.

I fucking hate these old tape measures.

Not planning to get paid for it at all, it's just helping my nana out.

Four weeks ago, Aaron's nana had her leg amputated

and has not been able to leave the house since.

You just feel as if you're cooped up like a prisoner.

But I don't know where I would want to go, I just want to have

a little whizz along the path and breathe fresh air.

It's frustrating for me as well cos she's my nana

and I want her to go out and just let her do whatever she wants to do.

She can't be stuck in every day, she's not an animal,

do you know what I mean?

Is that three and a half precisely?

There or there abouts. Call it four foot.

Having measured up,

it's off to the DIY store to pick up supplies.

There's no point in coming back.

But now they've bought their timber, the lads haven't quite worked out how to get it home.

Delivery's not till Wednesday, we can't get it delivered

till Wednesday, so, er, we need to get a van or a taxi

because we can't get the timber cut down.

There's been a little slight fuck-up.

Not really much else to say but we're dicks.

Is this the right number? I phoned for a taxi.

Ambitious but useless. That's kind of the way it goes.

I take it this is not a taxi service?

Er, we needed one urgently really. Not at the moment.

Have you got anything available then? Nothing.

I told him to get it delivered about three days ago

and it kind of would have been here by now but someone thought "No,

"we won't do that, we'll just go and pick it up."

Now we're wandering around B&Q car park like a pair of lost souls.

Fucking hell! Urgh!

At last, the lads have found a taxi.

The moment of truth. It's going to be a squeeze.

But it's an added expense they don't need,

particularly as they're doing this job for free.

That's a squeeze and a half.

Mate, you have no idea how much I love you right now. Jabba!

We're normally quite organised with stuff like this.

Didn't all go to plan but we got there in the end.

-Hallelujah!

-Come on, chop, chop!

Back at Nana's, the two-hour delay at the DIY store has knocked the lads' schedule.

Right, we've already decided that it's pointless fucking starting today.

-No, we can still start it today.

-It is pointless starting today because it just is.

I want to get it done.

It was getting late, it was pretty cold, there was no way we were going to finish it that night.

I don't think it's smart to start it today. I just don't think it's worth doing.

What's the harm in trying?

If it's not finished, it's not finished

but we're not doing anything all day.

I just wanted my nana to be able to come out as soon as, and the fact

that he was like, "Nah, fuck that, I'm not working till late,"

I thought that was very fucking selfish of him, do you know what I mean?

In respect of like what I think, I want my nana

out of the house as soon as I can, so I don't want to leave it like...

-It's fucking pointless waiting...

-Yeah, but it will get done...

-Doing it to wait for the sake of another day.

-It can get done, it will get done.

Kind of like a married couple, I guess.

I'm not fucking about, doing it at night.

Well, fuck you then, mate, I'm doing it.

-Cos there's just no point.

-I don't give a fuck, mate.

You're supposed to be fucking helping me out.

Aaron's definitely the bitch.

See what I've got to put up with.

It'll get done tonight, whether I've got to do it by myself or not.

I'm the daddy, I wear the trousers and he's my bitch.

Well, if possible, I'm going to try and stay as late as I can tonight.

The Wakefields believe their house is haunted by a poltergeist called Malcolm.

And Amber is getting into the spirit of things

by transforming Karen into one of the undead.

Going for a zombie look with a shot-in-the-head bullet wound.

This summer, Amber won a place at drama school down south.

Go on, have a sniff first. There you go.

My good girl.

But leaving home was a step she didn't feel quite ready to take.

My mum's really happy I didn't go to London cos, I mean,

we're like best friends.

I couldn't imagine my life without my mum

and I think it's the same, she couldn't imagine me not being here.

Right, let's try and put some of this on ya.

It's horrible, this stuff.

Amber has deferred her uni entry but is taking advantage of her

year out to study stage make-up at the local college.

I'm practising on me mum cos it's sort of part of the course.

Is that going to be red?

What colour do you think it's going to be, if you're shot in the head?!

It's good that you've got some kind of career, ain't it?

What can you see yourself doing in, say, when you're 25?

-Not running the laundrette, that's for sure.

-Oh, obviously.

That's why my kids are never ever going to do what I did in life.

A bloody laundrette!

So I always drummed it into Amber's head - do well,

do well at school, don't be like me.

Can you see yourself being like Dot Cotton of Moston?!

Can you really see Amber working in a laundrette? Never.

I want me kids to have ambition.

I want them to become really successful.

The world's your oyster, you can do anything you want

if you've got a good job.

Travel. Nice house. Nice car.

No worries about where the next bill's coming from.

I don't think my mum is content with this life.

I think she's just used to just owning the laundrette now.

She think that's what it's going to be forever.

Everybody says money's not important but it flipping is, ain't it?

-Yeah.

-Wouldn't say it makes you happy.

No, but why do you think I go to college and stuff? To earn money.

All the world's just about living, it's about money.

-Yeah, of course it is.

-Everything's about money.

-Everything.

-Have you done me bullet hole?

-Yeah.

Does it look good?

Malcolm, knock if you think I look sexy and nice for you.

You're up it, you.

Think Malcolm'd like me now?

Mum, just cos he's dead doesn't mean he's going to date a zombie.

Up the road, Mikee and Aaron

are working into the night to get Nana's ramp built.

It's 7:35 and we're, er, probably going to be

here for about another fucking 12 hours, if Aaron gets his own way.

Aaron's wheelchair-bound nana has been

trapped in the house for the last month, and the ramp will

allow her to get out and enjoy her local community once more.

We're not just going to sort of leave her.

I've not been able to get out for almost a month now.

I've lived in this area for 40 years and, gosh,

I don't half miss just looking over the park.

She does mean a lot to me

because she's pretty much brought me up from about 12 years old.

But it don't feel like a chore or anything like that,

I mean, I'm doing it because I want to, not cos I have to.

'We all love Aaron's nana.

'It was a bit weird, to be honest, because back in the day'

she used to really hate me and I think I was just like the loud

knobhead, the irritating kid who just never fucked off but I think

she kind of always knew like I had a good heart deep down, somewhere.

We all know how much this has meant to you, Nana.

Oh, yeah. But this is going to change things again, ain't it?

-For the better.

-Cheers to the better.

Cheers to the better. Yeah.

18 hours since work on the ramp began,

Nana prepares for her maiden voyage.

Your go, Nan.

-Do you want me to push ya or do you want to do it yourself?

-I'll do it myself.

-OK.

Whee!

-You won't see her now for days.

-Yeah, I know.

Whee!

Just the look on her face when she came out for the first time,

after god knows how many months, was like...

That pays for itself, so.

-Yeah, I'm well happy.

-Let go, let go, I'm doing a 360.

I'm overwhelmed, absolutely overwhelmed.

Words fail me, to be honest.

Come on.

Me nana's reaction was far better than getting paid, like the...

You can't put a price on that.

Just to see her sort of get out and smile,

have a little bit of a cry, it was like... it was mint.

I am so grateful to the boys.

Young lads giving up this time, trying their best to try

and get a little business going themselves,

but giving up time to do this for me.

In the centre of Harpurhey, Kelsea is preparing for a special party.

Mum's birthday.

SHE MOUTHS SILENTLY

Happy Birthday!

We're making jerk chicken for my mum's and Jaki's party,

so we have to wash it, so it's not all manky.

Ew, I don't like it.

Kelsea lives with her mum, Tracy, and half sisters,

Tameka and NayNay.

Me and my two sisters got two different dads.

I've got a white dad, they've got a coloured dad.

Hi, NayNay, you sitting down?

I've just been brought up like that, it's normal for me

to have two mixed race sisters and a brown dad.

I've got used to having my stepdad as a dad,

so it's just pretty normal.

Ew! Ew!

Get your thumb right deep inside.

Ew, what's that?

That's the heart.

Oh, no, is it? Oh no!

Jazmine and Kelsea's mums' birthdays are separated by a day,

and for the last three years, they've held a joint party.

That's my Jerk Chicken.

Me and Tracy, we're not your kind of sausage roll

and cucumber sandwich party girls anyway.

Celebrating both women's love of afro-Caribbean food, music and men.

I like my West Indian man and that's how it is.

Black don't crack.

I blame Bob Marley. I do, I blame Bob Marley.

One, two, three, four...

If we have a party, we have a dance off, that is simple as.

It's just a thing that we do.

We just know how to party.

Once it's going off, it's going off.

Jazmine gets all her moves from her mum.

I've got moves!

I did have. Now I need a bit of WD40.

I don't understand what it is that's at stake,

cos it's like, I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that

and you do this and I'll do that.

I don't understand what's at stake,

cos they're not winning any prizes for it.

Whoever said white girls can't dance, I'm sorry,

but you've got to come to one of mine and Jazmine's dance offs

and watch that white girls can dance.

Because Jazmine's family is leaving the area,

this could be the girls' last party together in Harpurhey.

I feel really angry about it, cos we've got to move

because of like you know, idiots.

This is my home, like, I should be able to stay here.

It's like it's my neighbourhood, this is like, you know, everything

that I have right now, is like based in that house and in the area.

There's just one week to go until Javeno's big fitness event

and he's hoping to drum up support at his pensioners' exercise class.

My favourite class.

Time for a workout, guys, real workout today.

Lovely.

I've got to take it easy,

cos I've just had a heart bypass.

Most of Javeno's clients may be over 60,

but that doesn't mean he'll go easy on them.

It's supposed to hurt, it's not supposed to feel good.

Skivers, that's what you are.

At Christmas time, it's like Ibiza,

in here it's like Ibiza, they're all in here dancing, boogying.

Five, four, three, two...

WHISTLE BLOWS

-We've lost weight.

-We've lost half a stone.

Cos we do what we're told.

They've been very well behaved.

There's been no penis jokes or nothing, there's been no...

-They've been good.

-We enjoy it though, don't we?

Oh, we do enjoy it. It's great and he's great, Jay, isn't he?

-He's fabulous.

-Yeah.

-Thank you.

The centrepiece of Javeno's fitness day,

will be a mass workout at a local park.

The exercise guru has come to a mate's studio to record

some motivational music for the event.

The Beatles have recorded here.

Lady Gaga, she comes in here every day, as well.

Yeah, mate, yeah.

I want this song to basically represent people that don't

think they can, to get 'em to stretch that mentality

and start thinking that they can.

You need that something that's just going to ugh, argh! Argh!

I want to go to the gym right now!

-That's what I mean, I need something like that.

-Get on the treadmill.

RAPS: # Feel I could beat any man Doing 12 on the clock

# Tick tock, and you see that line Go harder... #

-RAPS:

-# Time to go hard

# Push your body to the limit Get into it

# Be harsh To the system

# Push, breath Push, breath

# Clench up your whole body Let it sweat then release. #

A mile down the road at the market,

Doreen, from the oldies fitness class,

is on a mission to promote Javeno's event.

Hiya.

He is the instructor.

-You're not into it, no?

-I'm too old now.

Javeno.

I'd like to go to it, but I can't.

Well I go to two of his classes.

You've got to start somewhere, even if you've not done anything

for a while.

Don't take your body for granted.

A lot of my clients, a lot of people that say,

"I'll start my diet on Monday, I'm going to start training on Monday,

"Thursday today, why not start on Friday?"

Get tired running up the stairs.

-RAPS:

-# Breathe, we're back again Burpees, lunges, packs again

# Compete with yourself as one again

# Putting health and fit on the map again

# Believe in yourself You're a champion

# No negative force Don't answer them

# If you think that you can't Just hold it in

# You're the shining star You're supposed to win. #

HE SINGS WORDLESSLY

I'm happy with it.

I found myself a beat, it makes people do this.

So, hopefully, this time next week, we'll be jamming.

At the Wishy Washy laundrette,

the Wakefields are taking refuge from their haunted house,

with entertainment from local character, Margaret.

# Those blue suede shoes

# Oh, you can do anything But lay off those blue suede shoes

# Blue, blue, blue suede shoes! Ooh! #

Most funniest thing, ever!

All sent to try us, so they say, don't they?

Absolutely amazing, Margaret.

Yeah.

Karen takes the opportunity to canvas opinion on the ghostly

goings on at her house.

Did you believe in like these ghostly things?

Well, me mother died

and when she was dead, I'd seen her at the bottom of me bed.

What did she look like? How's she did in...?

She just sat at the bottom of the, the bed, as if she wasn't dead.

Was she wearing the same clothes, or...?

She was just sat there.

And was she looking at ya?

She was, you know, breathing a bit heavy like, you know what I mean?

Was you scared or...?

-Not really, no.

-No?

-No.

There must be some... something then, when you die.

-Yeah.

-Got to be something, ain't there?

-Yeah.

That's me done.

-Have a nice day.

-See ya, love.

Your family who you're with now, you're connected with them

for eternity, even if you come down again,

you know like if you come down as another life, you're always...

Excuse me, you're always connected with the people

you're connected with now, so me and my dear family,

in our next life, if there's such a thing,

will be connected again in our next life.

It's nice to know that you're not just...you've not just died

and you're just then forgotten about...

You've just, you're just not there anymore,

it's nice to believe that, I don't know, that you do meet up

with your family when you, when you've gone and stuff like that.

I've always said to my mum, I said,

"When you die, would you be able to come down and see me

"and sit at my bed at night?"

Like my mum, for instance, like, she obviously wouldn't

come down with a gun and shoot me or anything,

cos like that'd just be sick, like it would just be really mad.

She would obviously come down to see how I am, to care about me

and like, to give me hugs and say, "Hi."

Karen has a personal reason for a belief in the afterlife.

I think everybody's got to believe in something,

like, cos I've lost children, um, two, like, miscarriage and one

that I had to have terminated, which was, oh, it was horrible,

because it was killing me,

being, being pregnant was actually killing me

and they said if you carry on with the pregnancy, you're going to die.

That was one of the worst things that ever happened to me really,

because it was a decision, either I go on with the pregnancy and die,

and then leave Madison and Amber.

So that was like a proper goodbye that I had to say, um,

to this child.

I like to believe that there is something there,

just so I could probably see the kids again

in...do you know, in another life.

Work has totally dried up for aspiring painter-decorators

Aaron and Mikee.

It's been nearly two months since they last had a job,

and Aaron is feeling the strain.

Even when we started, we've never been this dry.

But we've not had any proper work in a good while.

We've just had little... little bits and bobs.

Aaron has taken to advertising the business on Facebook,

but with little success.

I had a couple of messages the other day,

for some wallpapering.

We said 100 quid, just to sort of make sure we definitely get it.

She didn't say nothing.

Still not heard from her, that was like probably about a week ago.

It's not really great being skint, to be honest.

You're a lot more aware of money that's going out,

as opposed to money that's coming in.

Like, I'm pretty much done.

I've got probably just enough money left

for maybe another week or two,

and then after that I don't... I don't really know.

It makes you feel a bit of a failure, I guess.

It's pretty shitty when you're on your arse,

like I feel like I couldn't afford any food,

even for the house on, like... I couldn't afford to even go out

and just to get out for a little bit.

I don't want to go back to just being in a dead-end job

and having to work your way up and just people telling you what to do.

Like, I've done it, and I know I'm only like 20

and people do that all their lives

and it's not as bad as what I'm making out,

but we've got to sort it out ourselves.

And it will get sorted, just don't know when.

It's the day of Javeno's fitness event and he's woken up

inspired to improve the health and happiness of the area.

Exercise makes you feel good, it makes you feel happy

and if you feel happy you'll treat people good.

I'm not always happy.

I'm telling a lie, I kind of am.

Sometimes see miserable people with faces on them.

I just want to go and just scrunch up their faces

and physically make them smile cos fricking life ain't that bad.

Workout season, baby!

Time to go work out.

Presente miento.

That's Portuguese, that.

What does it mean?

Don't know, I just made it up.

Javeno's fitness day is designed to get locals exercising,

whatever their age or ability.

He hopes it can trigger an improvement in the physical

and psychological health of the community.

I think the community is very lost.

How many times I see people around here

who can't even pick up their kids.

They can't do anything apart from sit down and drink lager,

and do this and do that and eat this and eat that,

and moaning about "Oh, I've got this, I've got diabetes,

"got high blood pressure, I'm obese, I'm this, I'm that."

If you're going to whinge about something, be proactive,

get up off your arse and go and do something

to help sort that problem out.

They're my lot coming over here now. Carole, you're late.

Ali.

Frigging hell!

The fitness day is free and is taking place in a local park.

The weather has stayed dry

and nearly 50 locals have turned up, aged from eight to 87.

You got one more walk to do, yeah?

30 seconds. 30 sec.

Two, one. It's a lovely day for it though, ain't it?

Keep walking, guys. As you're walking,

just press your arms forward for me.

Nice and straight. Yeah, perfect.

# Hey, hey Nothing's going to get in my way

# Feels like I been here waiting all day... #

RECORDING: # Now it's my time, tell me what you gon' say? #

One minute.

Get your booty up there.

Just spreading the message that you don't need equipment,

you don't need to be in a gym,

you don't need to be anywhere special, you can do it anywhere

and don't take your health and fitness for granted.

We'll live to be 100 at this rate.

'There's no better feeling than seeing somebody develop

'and grow and become healthier.'

It's the best thing in the world to me, and whether you're,

you're 85 or whether you're 17, 18, 19, 20,

if I can help you in some way achieve some kind of better health.

OK, squat hold. Squat hold, OK.

'It's the best job in the world to me.'

And I'm in the job because I like getting them results

and I can't explain it, like, there's no better feeling.

Good. Three, two, one.

Give yourselves a clap, guys. Well done. Well done, guys.

Well done, darling, thank you for that. You're welcome.

On the other side of Manchester, Jazmine and her family are visiting

the housing co-op they'll be moving to,

and they've taken Kelsea along.

And that's the children area.

They are first on the waiting list for a house,

which means they could be moving at any time.

I'm looking forward to a new start. It's going to be good.

Because it's a co-operative, everybody knows each other,

so we know our neighbours.

We didn't want to be a gated community...

Mm-hm.

But we have got gates.

It just feels a much nicer environment to bring up the girls.

Eat...eat one first.

Keen as, I can't wait, I cannot wait,

when I think about the changes that it should bring to our lives.

But the move does mean that

Jazmine and Kelsea will no longer be neighbours.

Jazzy-shay, Kelco, no more. Sad times.

I am quite sad she's leaving and I'm angry for the reasons why.

Titanic, are you ready for this?

Like I said, it is a boat, so we've gotta do Titanic.

-Come on.

-Are you ready, Jazmine?

-Yeah.

-Ready?

Ohhhh!

This is not the end of Jazzy-shay and Kelco.

# Men in black

# Men in black... #

Me and Kelsea are like just, we're just too strong.

We're never going to part.

# Here come the men in black

# Men in black

# They won't let you remember

# Men in black... #

THEY LAUGH

We're just tight.

It's Saturday night, and all over the area,

people are getting ready for a big night out,

but the Wakefield family are planning a night in...

Dogs are acting really weird tonight.

..with their mischievous houseguest, Malcolm the poltergeist.

Where's Malcolm?

This is just so typical of my family,

just to do a ghost hunt,

because other families sit and watch TV,

get settled down for the night, and we're doing a ghost hunt.

It's not normal.

Ghostbusters Bob and Pete are back,

hoping to reason with Malcolm and put an end to the years of taunts

the Wakefields claim to have endured.

# I put a spell on you... #

Get in, dog!

For these paranormal investigators,

it's another chance to settle scores with their most stubborn spook.

He's like a curmudgeon.

He's like an old grump, you know, ain't he?

Really. That's...

He did try, er, killing Paul once, didn't he?

Yeah. Yeah.

The loft hatch, he was underneath it.

Paul said it was locked, we've only got to take his word for it,

but it come down and smacked him on the head.

Malcolm, he's a wanker.

He tries his best to wind me up, but he can't, no.

I think I get to him more than he gets to me.

He don't worry me none, it's Kaz.

He likes the way she reacts to him, you know.

He loves fucking about with her head so much.

Bob and Pete will use cutting edge technology,

as well as the traditional Ouija board,

to try to contact the other side,

and their strict code of practice rules out Maddy's participation.

As far as your involvement with the Ouija board, there's none, OK?

You're too young, they said it's dangerous for you.

-You're way, way, way too young.

-He could latch on to you.

Cos you forget, don't you, that if he gets somebody,

poltergeists and that latch onto people at puberty,

and she's just started high school, you see,

so she's at that puberty age. Like me.

With the equipment set up,

the family wait to see if their feud with Malcolm

can finally be settled tonight.

Just down the road, Aaron's celebrating his 21st birthday

and the lads are gathering for a few pre-party drinks.

We're just going to get stupid drunk and make a mint fool of ourselves.

ALL: # Happy Birthday... #

Aaron and Mikee's business may not have taken off yet,

but a lack of cash isn't going to get in the way of a party.

# Happy birthday, dear Aaron... #

I can't stand chocolate, so why have you got me

a fucking double, double, double chocolate cake?

Blow this shit out.

Blow this shit out, it was for us, man.

Drink! Let's get fucked.

Right, where's everyone's fucking drinks? Let's go.

Despite the lack of paid work,

Aaron's still fixed on making a go of the business.

So many people that put you down and, like...and say,

"Oh, it's not going to work" or "No, no, it's not going to happen".

You little bastard!

Just that in itself that'll drive us to, like, prove them wrong.

Ugh! Ugh!

Hopefully tonight's just going to be fucking mucky.

THEY LAUGH

Taxi! Taxi! Taxi!

Get some fucking tunes on.

Yeah! Turn this shit up.

Over at the Wakefields',

the time has come to try and make contact with Malcolm.

I'm doing lights out.

Lights out, all out.

Do you want to sit down before...?

If there's any spirit person in this room

who wishes to communicate with us...

..could you please do so by moving the glass around the board, please?

Give us the first letter of your first name.

M. Now the second one.

Spell out your name.

-Name.

-Is it M-A, what you are spelling?

-Yes.

-OK. Now the third letter.

Evidence of Malcolm's existence is far from conclusive,

but the Wakefields strongly believe their poltergeist is in the room

and he's giving them the run-around as usual.

-No.

-Won't give us the fifth letter, will he?

No-one's seen anything yet.

Like, even on the board he give us Malc, but he didn't finish it off.

Who was it?

Malc.

-No, that was...

-Wouldn't finish his name off.

Nah, he wouldn't finish it.

Is it him or is it someone just pretending to be him?

Can you read?

Cos you can't fucking spell.

He always comes as somebody else when you're...when they come here.

Just winding everybody up.

Malcolm, please come forward if you're with us.

Is it possible you could whistle?

Do something, will you? For God's sake, you old fart.

Well, he's being an arsewipe.

Are you playing games with us?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

So you're a tit.

Yes.

-Seriously?

-Yeah.

Are you Malcolm?

Yeah, he'll piss off. No?

Yes. It's... it's going stupid now, mate.

It's someone playing silly buggers.

It's not who it claims to be.

Even though communication with Malcolm hasn't been confirmed,

as far as the Wakefields are concerned,

their poltergeist is real

and he seems to have become a permanent fixture at their house.

Ooh, wow!

Oh, there's some weird stuff going on on the stairs.

Even if Malcolm wasn't around, this house would never be quiet.

If it's not Malcolm causing trouble,

then it's my dysfunctional family, and to be honest,

I wouldn't have it any other way.

# I woke up with the rising sun

# I was blinded by the light

# Jump up and put on my jeans

# It feels good They're a little tight

# Step out in a crazy world

# But then the sun resets your mind

# Feel the weight of it All just drift off

# On a cloud to another time

# Oooh... #

It's early morning in Harpurhey,

and Jazmine and Kelsea are making the most

of their remaining time together.

Don't drop me.

I'm not going to drop you.

I know you're not, but you know.

It does make me feel upset and sad and stuff, yeah.

I'll miss Jazmine loads cos she's one of my close mates,

so yeah, I'll miss her quite a bit.

My shadow's so cool.

Aargh!

Aaron and Mikee are braving their hangovers

to go to their first paid job in weeks.

So fun!

Assembling some furniture for the landlady of their local.

We get paid 50 quid for this, which is about a day's work.

Obviously we split everything down the middle anyway,

so it works out like 25 quid each for a day's work,

which, to be fair...

It's not brilliant, is it?

Hard workers, when they're not drunk.

Hard workers when drunk!

And at the Wishy Washy laundrette, it's business as usual.

Now, do you think George Bush had anything to do with the Twin Towers?

I don't know, I'm not... I remembered it...

100 billion million percent.

I've studied it, I've researched it, I've done everything,

he had something to do with that Twin Towers.

That is my opinion.

I think maybe that's a stretch too far, to be honest.

Oh no, definitely!

Do you think the Royals had anything to do with Diana's death?

Like, I've said it loads of times,

I actually love where I'm from anyway.

Just like it, I just,

I feel like if I'm away too much, you just miss home.

I mean, the best thing about it is everyone knows each other,

it's the community, you're all within walking distance of each other

and walking distance between you and your family

and your mates and... do you know what I mean?

Everything's there.

Everyone does know everyone, everyone gets on and it's,

it is a laugh, like seeing everyone absolutely smashed,

singing away to Oasis, thinking they...

everyone thinking they're on Britain's Got Talent

or something like that, really going for it.

I don't...I don't think you get stuff like that in other places.

I definitely want to see more of the world,

but, I mean, I couldn't go abroad and live there

for the rest of my life. Like, I know I can always come back here,

even if it's months, years at a time,

I can always come back to where I grew up.

MUSIC: "Young Blood" by The Naked And Famous

# We're only young and naive still

# We require certain skills

# The mood it changes like the wind

# Hard to control when it begins

# The bittersweet between my teeth... #

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