0:00:03 > 0:00:06Happy as Larry. Could not be happier.
0:00:06 > 0:00:07Could not be happier.
0:00:07 > 0:00:12This programme contains very strong language.
0:00:25 > 0:00:31One large housing scheme in north west Kilmarnock is home to over 1,000 families.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35Just a handful of these households agreed to be filmed over a year.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39The Scheme follows some of their stories. Charting the ups...
0:00:39 > 0:00:43That's the scariest thing I've ever done in my fuckin' life.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45..and downs of life.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47I'm nae use to no cunt.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51The series follows people fighting for the scheme...
0:00:51 > 0:00:53A waste of fucking time.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58..and fighting just to keep their families from falling apart.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03- It used to be a couple of hours of normality. There's none now. - I'll kiss it. I'll kiss it.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23The McMurray family have lived in the scheme for seven years.
0:01:26 > 0:01:32Today, mum of three Libby has been visited by her daughter Kerry, who also lives in the scheme.
0:01:44 > 0:01:49Libby's eldest son James lives in the house, sharing a room with his cousin Brian.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52I'm going to get a drink of alcohol.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56It's late morning and Kerry has brought round some Schnapps,
0:01:56 > 0:01:58to keep out the winter chill.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Kerry may be starting early, but James is hot on her heels.
0:02:13 > 0:02:18James has been a heroin addict for years, and every morning
0:02:18 > 0:02:22he has to head out and buy some, before he starts suffering withdrawals.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27I'm just away to score now and sort myself out...hopefully.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33James' youngest brother, 15-year-old Steven, also lives in the house.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Drugs, that's all he ever does.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43It's starting to get a bit annoying.
0:02:47 > 0:02:53I drink and smoke, but it's no'...it's no' exactly as bad as what he's doing.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55There's James. There'll be snowballs on the wall.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58He'll knock them out. There's one behind you, son.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03James is back after five minutes, having just scored.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10Steven has recently got into serious trouble and is facing a court case,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13accused of breaking into the local post office.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16It's been brutal, man, having to go to court.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Don't want to do things like that, having to go to court.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22No' at this age anyway, not for things like that. It's just my daftness.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Trying to change. I'm not trying to change, I am changing.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Not been in trouble a good wee while now.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41Upstairs, James has just injected his fix.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43It's cold and that. I felt rough.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56I feel better, much better.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Oh, shit, I've left the grill on, left the grill on.
0:04:01 > 0:04:02Sorry, mate.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Now I've had that, I've got a nice spring in my step.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18I feel happy go lucky coming on.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22James is about to try and change his life around
0:04:22 > 0:04:26and attempt to try and come off heroin in the next few days.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Hopefully, fingers crossed, it all goes well.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32I'm confident it's going to happen. I'm just hoping.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Had it cooking for ages, just forgot about it.
0:04:43 > 0:04:49Last week in the scheme, one family, the Crees, were leading the charge to re-open the old community centre,
0:04:49 > 0:04:54which their parents started and where they used to run clubs for young people and the unemployed.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Once we get inside, do you think we'll come back out?!
0:04:58 > 0:05:00It's a sit in.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03They were busy raising money any way they could.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08However, their mum was diagnosed with cancer.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12While she received treatment, they were keen to raise her spirits
0:05:12 > 0:05:15by getting the centre open as fast as they could.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Hopefully, we can get the centre up and running quick
0:05:18 > 0:05:23and get her round there, get her out for a wee while instead of sitting watching the four walls.
0:05:23 > 0:05:28The Crees are working round the clock to get the old community centre open again,
0:05:28 > 0:05:33and today, they've organised a committee meeting in the new centre, 500 yards down the road.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37This is the new North West Area Centre...
0:05:40 > 0:05:43..which is for... there's everything in it -
0:05:43 > 0:05:47doctors, chiropodists,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Hunter Centre, nursery.
0:05:49 > 0:05:55The only thing that's no' in it is a community centre, which was supposed to be in it.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59They said that there was enough room in here for everybody, which was rubbish. There's no'.
0:05:59 > 0:06:06They expect 45 kids in here, pool table...and all their games.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09You couldn't do that in here. There's no' enough room.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12It's far too wee, so we wouldn't be able to do it.
0:06:13 > 0:06:18At the weekly meeting of the residents' committee, there's huge community support
0:06:18 > 0:06:23to get the business plan ready and to raise the money they need to get the centre open.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27My job's just basically come along and help them on the night, give them a wee bit of advice
0:06:27 > 0:06:30from the council and, hopefully, they can achieve their aims.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I think it went fairly well.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Next week's meeting, that's the one that's going to tell what's what.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41But hopefully, get it open within four to six weeks. Hopefully.
0:06:47 > 0:06:48Last time on The Scheme,
0:06:48 > 0:06:51former hell-raisers Gordon and Annie were devastated
0:06:51 > 0:06:57after their eldest son ended up in jail, after a string of charges finally caught up with him.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- He got eight months - They give him the full whack.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Having turned their own lives around, they were desperate
0:07:03 > 0:07:07to keep their other kids on the straight and narrow.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Their 15-year-old daughter Kimberley won gold for dancing,
0:07:10 > 0:07:12but then got into trouble by lying about going camping with some boys.
0:07:16 > 0:07:21Their 20-year-old son Chris was also constantly in trouble.
0:07:21 > 0:07:27Gordon and Annie needed a break and headed to Majorca on their first-ever family holiday abroad.
0:07:27 > 0:07:34But they couldn't afford to take their son Chris and left him to fend for himself in the scheme.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37They're back from their much-needed break.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41Holy fuck, man. You're away above thae fucking buildings.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44That's the scariest thing I've ever done in my fucking life.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48Never again. And her screaming like a banshee.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51They swing you round about and you're upside down.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have been on it.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57They were calling me a shite bag. No, just horrible.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01Aye, it was a great time, going walks into the town doing shopping,
0:08:01 > 0:08:05going for presents for the grandweans and that.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09Just going out and buying bottles of drink and that for sitting up
0:08:09 > 0:08:13on the banister. But we had a great laugh, aye.
0:08:21 > 0:08:26The Crees have raised nearly £4,000 in their attempt to get the centre open.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30But they really have other things on their mind.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Aye, I'm there through the night.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Every night, through the night.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40But I think it's going to have to take two of us to do it now,
0:08:40 > 0:08:42because it's like, aye, it's getting quite...
0:08:44 > 0:08:47I mean, she can't like get up and walk to the toilet or anything.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51You've got to like help her, which is, that's just no' my mam.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58She's just...saying that she knows she dying, but...
0:08:59 > 0:09:02And that's how we want the centre open,
0:09:02 > 0:09:07like, for my mam and all, which is more determination for us,
0:09:07 > 0:09:11after all the work she put into it.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26One of the biggest problems in the scheme is heroin use.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30James had promised to kick his habit but has failed to stay away from the dealers.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34He's just bought another £10 bag of heroin.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Eh... Funky shit.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44He's also just bought, and taken, 30 Diazepam, known as blues.
0:09:46 > 0:09:51James' habit is spiralling and devastating Libby and the rest of the family.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Look at the state of him.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22James normally hides his needles in his own room.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49SHOUTING
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Doesn't bother me that he's taking it, it just bothers me, because it bothers my mum.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09I'm just about to snap,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13really seriously, aye, 100%.
0:11:17 > 0:11:2310 year I've been taking it, not getting help from nowhere, help from not a cunt.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28It used to be a couple of hours of normality. There's none now.
0:11:28 > 0:11:33See the state he's in the now, that's what he is all day, every day.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38I just feel like ending it, killing myself, but I couldn't do that to my family.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Just doesn't want to face up to reality and the normality of life -
0:11:58 > 0:12:03get himself straightened out and coping with life -
0:12:03 > 0:12:05the same as the rest of us have got to do.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09He's in a drug-induced coma 24/7.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18I can hear the camera.
0:12:23 > 0:12:24I want to kiss it.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27I'm going to kiss it.
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Can you see it?
0:12:58 > 0:13:03One couple have lived in the area for over 50 years, and they bought their own house in 2004.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Harry is a passionate and compulsive gardener.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18There's a lady that comes by. She says it brightens up her day when she comes by here every morning.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20That's good, isn't it?
0:13:20 > 0:13:24And Betty is a passionate and compulsive cleaner.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30That's the way I like it and I get agitated if it's no'.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35- I'll maybe do it and then I'll go back over it later on. - This is my kingdom.
0:13:35 > 0:13:40This is what I like - to see everything flourishing.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Then I know it's going to be all right.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46All the time I've been here, nobody's really bothered with my garden at all.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48No vandals or nothing.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51I heard the young ones, they passed the other night, a gang of young boys
0:13:51 > 0:13:54and one says, "Look at the guy's garden,"
0:13:54 > 0:13:58and another says, "Aye, he won an award last year, that wee guy in there."
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Harry's garden is well known in the scheme
0:14:00 > 0:14:07and he's entered the Central-East Ayrshire Gardening Competition again after being runner-up last year.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10There's no many gardens like this up here.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Some of them are lucky if they'll cut their grass, never mind anything else!
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Harry and Betty have been closer than ever in recent times,
0:14:22 > 0:14:26following a routine hospital operation that went terribly wrong.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28When I was ill, I realised how good a man I had.
0:14:28 > 0:14:35I mean, you're talking about twice a day out at that hospital, for nine months.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41And then he took a wee stroke, due to all the stress with running,
0:14:41 > 0:14:46and then I was three month up at the Royal. He never missed a day.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49I cannae fault him.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53When you get to the point they tell you they can't guarantee your wife's going to make it,
0:14:53 > 0:14:59then it's a big thing. It was really a relief to see her
0:14:59 > 0:15:03when they transferred her to Glasgow and she got fixed up there,
0:15:03 > 0:15:07and then watching her recover, putting the weight back on.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10It's taken her about a year to get to what she was.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13I'm just glad she's here and, as far as I'm concerned,
0:15:13 > 0:15:17she can do what she wants as long as she's still here, that was the main thing.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20But it was really a trying time, it was.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32After their holiday, Gordon and Annie are devastated to hear rumours
0:15:32 > 0:15:38that son Chris has been using heroin and have been trying to lock him in the house and stop him taking it.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42I'm just trying to hold him in until he admits it.
0:15:42 > 0:15:48We've just told him that we want to help him, just to admit the truth - that he is taking it.
0:15:48 > 0:15:53Gordon and Annie are terrified of their son becoming an addict
0:15:53 > 0:15:57and have asked their second-oldest son - 20-year-old David - to watch him.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02Despite endless rumours in the scheme, Chris is denying taking heroin.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15His girlfriend came and telt us everything.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17She told us that he's been taking it for about three months.
0:16:17 > 0:16:24Bryan's broken hearted through it. He says he can't sleep at night in the jail.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27He just wishes it was a week on Friday until he's out.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29He's home a week on Friday.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33I think he's being a wee shit, to be honest. About it all.
0:16:51 > 0:16:52I think he's bent, though.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54He was cuddling into me last night.
0:17:18 > 0:17:19After a brave fight,
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Mrs Cree Sr has lost her second battle with cancer
0:17:21 > 0:17:24and the Crees are devastated by their loss.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29You've just got to go on with it.
0:17:30 > 0:17:35It's when you get up in the morning to come in, you ken, she's no' here.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43Just got to try and be strong and get on with your life...
0:17:46 > 0:17:49..and try and do things that my mother wanted to do.
0:17:49 > 0:17:54We were just getting ready booking up for Blackpool and all for her.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56I was going to go to a different hotel with her,
0:17:56 > 0:17:58because she needed a lift to get up,
0:17:58 > 0:18:00she couldn't walk up the stairs.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04But...just didn't happen.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22But she says, "I'll be here."
0:18:22 > 0:18:26And we were hoping to open the centre in a couple of weeks' time
0:18:26 > 0:18:28and she's just missed it.
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Last time on The Scheme,
0:18:36 > 0:18:40single mum-of-two Kay tried to help several of her eldest daughter's friends,
0:18:40 > 0:18:45who were homeless or struggling with addictions, by allowing them to live in her house.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50With so many young people staying, the police were constantly at the door.
0:18:56 > 0:19:03And Kay even ended up assaulting a neighbour, after she complained about anti-social behaviour.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Just spoke to me like a piece of shit and I attacked her.
0:19:09 > 0:19:16Eventually, Kay decided to give up trying to help people and move away from the scheme for a fresh start.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22But daughter Candice fell pregnant to Gordon and Annie's son, Chris.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33A month on, Kay has sold up and is now renting a house five miles away in another scheme.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39Kay is dead set against Candice having the baby with Chris and has thrown her out.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43She's determined she's having it, so just letting her get on with it.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45She's put in for her own house now,
0:19:45 > 0:19:48so I don't know. But I don't know where she's getting
0:19:48 > 0:19:51the money to furnish it and all that. I'm no helping her.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56I just want her to learn how hard it's going to be, because it's no' easy.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58I mean, she's nae money,
0:19:58 > 0:20:01she's no' going to get any money until she's, what, 18?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Chris is on the buroo.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08He gets about 60 something pound a fortnight.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10By the time he gets it, he owes it all out.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15I says to her the other night, I says, "Who's going to keep you?"
0:20:15 > 0:20:19She went, "You." No, I don't think so. I've got my own house to keep.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Chrissy texted me a power of cheek,
0:20:23 > 0:20:27because I had says, "What are you going to do if you've got
0:20:27 > 0:20:30"a tenner and you're needing nappies and milk,
0:20:30 > 0:20:35"and Chrissy needs a bag of smack? Who's going to win?"
0:20:35 > 0:20:37So, obviously, it's Chrissy.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40He's got a habit, he needs it.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42That's nae way to bring up a wean.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55Kay's daughter Candice is now staying with Chris's parents,
0:20:55 > 0:21:00Gordon and Annie, while she waits to try and get a flat on the housing list.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04She can't believe her mum has left her to stand on her own two feet.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08I think she's pure blackmailing me.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12She texted me saying, "Get rid of the wean and you can move back in."
0:21:23 > 0:21:26I'm like that, "Oh, my God."
0:21:26 > 0:21:27Pure hate her, man.
0:21:27 > 0:21:35I'm just going to end up deleting her number and ignoring her texts or eventually changing my number,
0:21:35 > 0:21:37because I cannae put up with it any more.
0:21:37 > 0:21:43Like, before I found out I was pregnant, we were talking about having a wean and that.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46And then it just happened.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49But...I do want it.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51He wants it and all.
0:22:07 > 0:22:12I don't know what he's doing and now I can't text him, because he's no' got a phone.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15He says he couldn't be bothered having a phone.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18So I won't ken where he is, probably.
0:22:29 > 0:22:33Back at Libby's house, James is trying to come off heroin again,
0:22:33 > 0:22:34this time with his mum's help.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36It's day two of the battle.
0:22:37 > 0:22:42I've just got to get meth... and just take it for a few days
0:22:42 > 0:22:48and then just rough it out for a few days after that and it should be all right, after a week, ten days.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51I think he's doing all right,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Aye, doin' no bad.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Taking it a day at a time.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Libby has bought James some methadone from a local dealer.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06Doctors often prescribe methadone as a substitute for heroin
0:23:06 > 0:23:11and Libby is planning to buy him what he needs every day, to help him with his cravings.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13A tenner for 60 mil of meth.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Up in Glasgow, it's a tenner for 100 mil.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Going down the back way.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23James is off to cash in his Giro and pay his mum back.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29Normally, with any cash in his pocket, he'd go straight for a bag of heroin.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Call at the post office to cash my money and pay what I'm due to people.
0:23:35 > 0:23:40This is a pure shithole of a place, isn't it? A shithole of a place.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Derelict buildings everywhere.
0:23:43 > 0:23:50'Every few streets you go, every couple of streets there's a known dealer, a good ten, maybe 12,
0:23:50 > 0:23:53'and that's just within a couple of minutes walk from here.'
0:24:04 > 0:24:09While Libby waits for James to come back with her cash, her youngest son Steven
0:24:09 > 0:24:14is attending a course for kids that have been excluded from mainstream school.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Induction, health and safety.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21I just got that a couple of weeks ago, saying is there a first aid built into it?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Did you no say, "I know all this because I did it in my induction?"
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- I've done it five times. - I've done it three times.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31There's nothing wrong with doing it more than once. You'll know exactly what to do.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Steven has a dedicated tutor on the course who thinks that
0:24:34 > 0:24:39he's at a crucial point, and could turn his life around.
0:24:39 > 0:24:44Depends, I would say, on Steven's personal issues
0:24:44 > 0:24:47and how home life is and how it's affected in here.
0:24:47 > 0:24:52I would say that's, if there's something on his mind and that, his behaviour can get a bit extreme.
0:24:52 > 0:24:57Steven's a very clever boy but he's just, the way he's focussing is just all wrong.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00He's very, I think, Steven, it's...
0:25:00 > 0:25:04When his social worker arrives, Steven suddenly decides to lock himself in the toilets.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07You go and eat your lunch and don't you worry about it.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11You see, this is Steven getting into a bit of state
0:25:11 > 0:25:16because I don't know what he thinks about what's going to happen here.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20Sorry, he's there, he's come out, he's come out the bathroom.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24I knew he would come out. He does this. He says he's going to do things but he never really...
0:25:24 > 0:25:27He doesn't follow through with it.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Steven finally agrees to talk to his social worker
0:25:30 > 0:25:35about his court case for allegedly breaking into the post office.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- Bye, Steven.- Dylan. Please.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42James is just leaving the post office his brother is accused
0:25:42 > 0:25:45of breaking into with the money from his giro.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49A poxy £100.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52No cunt's getting nothing.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55I'm shaking, man, like a fuckin' alcoholic.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Oh, that's nasty.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02Feel a tiny wee bit rough. If I drink two of these I'll be brand new, I hope.
0:26:05 > 0:26:11James is back with money to repay Libby, and the money to buy the next methadone hit from the dealers.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13I'll settle for 20, right?
0:26:16 > 0:26:19That's a deal. A deal and a half.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41Going to be rough for the first five, seven days,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44and then he'll start feeling the benefit of it.
0:26:44 > 0:26:49So we'll just keep our fingers crossed that he comes back out the other end of it.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Back at the charity that supports him,
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Steven has been kicking off again.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01He can be such a positive influence on his peers but he chooses to go
0:27:01 > 0:27:04the other way with the negative behaviour rather than the positive.
0:27:04 > 0:27:09It's always laughing and making fun of people and he doesn't see that as bullying.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13I do believe he is worried about the court thing that's coming up,
0:27:13 > 0:27:18but he has to understand that it's his consequences.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21Steven needs to improve his behaviour,
0:27:21 > 0:27:25or he'll be excluded from his last hope of any real education.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Annie is taking Nicola, her son Bryan's partner,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41and baby to visit him in jail.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Bryan hates to be locked up.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56Bryan likes to be out in the open, and that's what'll be dementing him.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00He went back up to his cell last week and they were all sitting in his cell burning smack.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Don't get me wrong, he smokes hash.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09But he'd never take smack.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11He's seen what it's done to my nephews and everything.
0:28:11 > 0:28:16Behind bars, Bryan is also devastated to hear the rumours about Chris taking heroin.
0:28:35 > 0:28:40I've a brother who's been on it from when he was 14 year old, he's still on it.
0:28:40 > 0:28:45Know what I mean? And I've seen what he's done, know what I mean? Stealing and whatever,
0:28:45 > 0:28:48to get it. It's no nice.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52I'm going to take this buggy, then I'll come back and get Jai.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Bryan, he's on the phone to his dad two nights ago.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06Then I came in and Gordon telt me and he says, "Will you take me down to Nicola's?"
0:29:06 > 0:29:11And he says to Nicola, "You want to stop accusing him of taking heroin."
0:29:11 > 0:29:14Nicola goes, "What are you talking about? I was only joking with him."
0:29:31 > 0:29:35On Tourhill Road, Harry and Betty have just had a letter telling them the judges
0:29:35 > 0:29:40from the Central East Ayrshire Gardening competition will be coming to assess their garden in a month.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42Oh, it's quite exciting.
0:29:42 > 0:29:46He's put a lot of work into it, definitely has,
0:29:46 > 0:29:48a lot of work.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50It'd be a shame for anything to go wrong now.
0:29:53 > 0:29:59It's all hands on deck and Harry has called in help to get things ready.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01We just ken Harry cos he used to stay down the road.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04Asked me if I'd come up and give him a wee hand to get his plants out
0:30:04 > 0:30:07because he's such a small fellow.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11He's taken a lend of me for my height.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17There's quite a few folk come up and get a look at his garden,
0:30:17 > 0:30:19take pictures on their phones.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26That's it, I just finished putting the fence ones on.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29Basically that'll be everything done, pal.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32Just keep watering them until the end of the season.
0:30:37 > 0:30:41- I'll see you next year. - I'll look forward to it.
0:30:41 > 0:30:47One of the few young ones that's going about and never in any trouble, Martin,
0:30:47 > 0:30:50never into drugs or nothing like that.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54Smashing big fellow, really helpful with old people, especially.
0:30:55 > 0:30:59He'll go out of his way to help anyone. Nice boy.
0:31:04 > 0:31:08Harry is determined to go one better,
0:31:08 > 0:31:11and this year, hopefully win first place.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25It's the morning of Mrs Cree senior's funeral,
0:31:25 > 0:31:29and the whole family gather in her house for the last time.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37I just thought that she was my mam but I feel that she's like a special friend.
0:31:37 > 0:31:41I could go to my mother with anything.
0:31:41 > 0:31:45I was actually the last one to talk to her. When I came in,
0:31:45 > 0:31:49she was sitting getting her breakfast, normal, laughing and joking,
0:31:49 > 0:31:53and she told me that there's nae way she was going back to Crosshouse Hospital.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56As soon as we told her the ambulance was there for her,
0:31:56 > 0:32:02it was if somebody'd just put a light switch off, and she was gone in a matter of minutes.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05Devastated. Can't believe it.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08She was a mam in a million.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12Nobody could have asked for a mam like her.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14It's hard.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Because every time I shut my eyes, I just saw my mam.
0:32:19 > 0:32:23Keep hearing her shouting me, because it was me that was here through the night.
0:32:25 > 0:32:29Keep hearing her shouting me for the toilet, go down and she's no there.
0:32:32 > 0:32:37The only thing is that she'll no be here when the centre re-opens.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40It's not going to be the same walking through the door
0:32:40 > 0:32:43with the one that originally put the door in 30-odd year ago.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13Gordon and Annie are having a double family celebration,
0:33:13 > 0:33:17as it's the 21st birthday of their son David,
0:33:17 > 0:33:22and their eldest son Bryan has also just got out of jail.
0:33:47 > 0:33:52Preparations for the party are going well, but not for Kimberley.
0:33:52 > 0:33:56- Stressing, man. My fake tan, it just went all wrong.- Dodgy beautician.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59She says it's my dry skin. I've no even got dry skin,
0:33:59 > 0:34:02so I don't even ken what she's talking about probably.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04My belly's no that bad.
0:34:04 > 0:34:06Look at that tan.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08- I know. - Did you no tell her about it?
0:34:08 > 0:34:12Aye, she says there's nothing she could do, it's just dry skin.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14Dry skin.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17Kimberley's tan is not the family's biggest problem.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20They still suspect that Chris is using heroin,
0:34:20 > 0:34:23even though he continues to deny it.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25He knows the way I feel.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28If it continues, then he's going to let myself down.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30It's no fair on my mum and dad.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32All us want to do is care for them,
0:34:32 > 0:34:34flung it back in their faces a bit.
0:34:34 > 0:34:38I'm just glad Bryan's out, because
0:34:38 > 0:34:43we were all falling out and everything, all through it. The whole family was arguing through it.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47One minute he's happy and then the next minute he's pure snappy at me,
0:34:47 > 0:34:50and pure grumpy and all that, so...
0:34:52 > 0:34:55And he just sleeps all the time. All he does is sleep.
0:34:55 > 0:34:59I would prefer him to get back on the drink. It's much better.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02I'd rather him on the drinking
0:35:02 > 0:35:04than what he's doing.
0:35:04 > 0:35:09With Kimberley's tan sorted and the party revving up, the family head for town.
0:35:09 > 0:35:12I wouldn't be able to dance with these on.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16I've no worn heels like this for years, no this height anyway.
0:35:16 > 0:35:21I'm bringing my flip flops with me in case, my diamante flip flops, and I just dance with flat shoes on.
0:35:31 > 0:35:35At Libby's, a week after he came off heroin,
0:35:35 > 0:35:39James is still clean of drugs and is being supported by the whole family.
0:35:39 > 0:35:44His cousin Brian is also trying to quit.
0:35:44 > 0:35:46It will be my 14th day tomorrow, two weeks.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49I feel great. I do, I feel brilliant, you know what I mean?
0:35:49 > 0:35:54Like I was saying earlier, I would rather go and get a drink now than I would buy drugs.
0:35:54 > 0:36:00I can't stop thinking about it. I think about it all the time.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02That should pass hopefully.
0:36:02 > 0:36:05I think I've defeated drugs, aye.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07No temptations at all, know what I mean?
0:36:07 > 0:36:09It's just the staying off them,
0:36:09 > 0:36:12that's the problem. Just push each other, know what I mean,
0:36:12 > 0:36:17in the right direction, I mean, to help each other out.
0:36:27 > 0:36:31Trying my best just to help him and that, and since he's come off it,
0:36:31 > 0:36:33man, me and him have been the best pals and that, sitting
0:36:33 > 0:36:38talking to me and that now, and he's wanting to talk to me rather than it just being forced on him.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40It's brilliant, man.
0:36:45 > 0:36:49Gordon and Annie's party is in full swing.
0:36:54 > 0:36:59A few drinks in, Annie's heels finally get the better of her.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Look at the shoes she's wearing! Five-inch heels!
0:37:11 > 0:37:15After denying being involved with heroin, Chris has finally admitted
0:37:15 > 0:37:17to his mum that he needs help.
0:37:37 > 0:37:41Annie's not the only one worried about Chris.
0:37:41 > 0:37:48Candice is still not talking to her mum, and she's relying on Chris to support her during her pregnancy.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08With a couple of weeks to go before the judges visit, Harry can't risk
0:38:08 > 0:38:13his plants being over-watered by a green-fingered grandson.
0:38:14 > 0:38:17I just made that box up for him. It keeps him occupied.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21It saves him from playing with that hose, because he puts too much water in my plants,
0:38:21 > 0:38:24so I gave him a wee garden of his own so's he could put as much water
0:38:24 > 0:38:27as he likes in it, because the plants are all plastic.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36Harry and Betty are garden and houseproud and also have pride in the scheme.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40It's a nice place.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43You cannae change people's habits
0:38:45 > 0:38:48and how they want to live.
0:38:48 > 0:38:51If they don't want to keep a tidy place,
0:38:51 > 0:38:54it's hard to change their habits.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57I mean, you get houses there with young fellas
0:38:57 > 0:39:01and young couples in the house and they can't cut the grass. They've a thing the size of a postage stamp.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Could be a lot to do with unemployment.
0:39:03 > 0:39:07There again, a lot of them is unemployed. They've nothing else to do. They cannae cut the grass?!
0:39:07 > 0:39:11I think they lost their, I don't know, self-esteem.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Years ago you could go out and get a job.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16You could go from one job to another, but no now.
0:39:26 > 0:39:29There's been a new addition to Libby's family.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32We got a new wee dog two days ago,
0:39:32 > 0:39:36half Staff and half God-knows whatever,
0:39:36 > 0:39:40and her name's Bess.
0:39:40 > 0:39:45She but she just gets up and widdles all over the place,
0:39:45 > 0:39:48on the chairs, anywhere at all.
0:39:48 > 0:39:55After his aggressive behaviour at the course got worse, Steven has been asked to take time out.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57I do think I bully folk, aye.
0:39:57 > 0:40:01No intentionally, it's just... See like if somebody says something wrong to me, I automatically
0:40:01 > 0:40:07defend myself even if they don't mean anything bad by it, jump right on them and just get them telt.
0:40:17 > 0:40:23Upstairs, James is still managing to stay off heroin by using methadone,
0:40:23 > 0:40:27although he's now also started taking Valium to ease his cravings.
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Fuckin' cutting myself to bits here, man.
0:40:51 > 0:40:55Nearly two weeks, couple of days off two weeks.
0:40:56 > 0:40:59Does it get easier?
0:40:59 > 0:41:01No. Harder if anything.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08Libby is trying to keep both her boys on track,
0:41:08 > 0:41:14but it's the first day of Steven's court case tomorrow and there's the chance he may be locked up.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Just got to be there for him, that's it.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44- He's away, Steven. - This dog just pissed on the chair.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46Pishes everywhere.
0:41:55 > 0:41:59The Crees' plans to open the old community centre are on hold,
0:41:59 > 0:42:04as the family rally round to clear their mum's house for the new occupants.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09It's really hard emptying it,
0:42:09 > 0:42:10so it is.
0:42:14 > 0:42:18At the end of the day, everything that you pick up
0:42:18 > 0:42:24was my mother's. Just gutted. I just wish my mother was here.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31We just have to get on with it.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36Words couldn't explain how I feel, to tell you the truth.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39It's sick more than anything.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47It'll take a long while to get over, I think.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50So we're more determined now for the centre
0:42:50 > 0:42:53because that's what my mam wanted.
0:42:53 > 0:42:58With the loss of one of the main drivers behind their enthusiasm to get the centre open,
0:42:58 > 0:43:03the Crees' sense of community spirit is now going to be more important than ever.
0:43:12 > 0:43:18It's the day of Steven's court case, and Libby hasn't slept.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22I'm trying to keep my stomach at bay.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24Just nervous,
0:43:24 > 0:43:29like every time I go to court with any one of them, I feel this way.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32It's just no knowing what to expect.
0:43:37 > 0:43:41The first day of the court hearing will reveal what evidence there might be against Steven
0:43:41 > 0:43:47and whether the CCTV footage from the post office shows he was involved in the break-in.
0:43:53 > 0:43:55Round at Kay's house, Candice has been visiting.
0:43:55 > 0:44:00After falling out with her mum and weeks of not talking, they've now made up again.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05Didn't fall out long.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07She was back wanting money or something.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09More like you wanting money off me.
0:44:09 > 0:44:13- Aye, right, whatever. - "Did you get your giro the day?"
0:44:13 > 0:44:15No, I don't think so.
0:44:15 > 0:44:20Chris and Candice are still together, although she thinks Chris still has his own problems.
0:44:20 > 0:44:24He's away to the doctor's today
0:44:24 > 0:44:27to see if he can get put on a script.
0:44:27 > 0:44:34Just telling his doctor's he's got a habit and to try and get DFs and blues or meth, or what.
0:44:34 > 0:44:36He wants to come off it,
0:44:36 > 0:44:39but he just fucks it up every time.
0:44:39 > 0:44:44He'll start to do it and then he'll just get too agitated
0:44:44 > 0:44:46and just give up.
0:44:46 > 0:44:50Well, hopefully he does get off it and get himself together for this wean coming. I don't think he will.
0:44:54 > 0:44:56He'd better get off it.
0:44:59 > 0:45:06Led by the Crees, the residents' committee have raised nearly 4,500 hard fought pounds
0:45:06 > 0:45:08to re-open the old community centre,
0:45:08 > 0:45:13and today, two local councillors have turned up to add their support and meet the group.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18The council have offered the lease for just a pound, but Marion Cree
0:45:18 > 0:45:21has just had a meeting to finalise the business plan
0:45:21 > 0:45:25and she's starting to realise that they still have a long way to go
0:45:25 > 0:45:27before they get things up and running.
0:45:29 > 0:45:32Basically, they want us to spend all the money that we've got before the doors are even opened.
0:45:32 > 0:45:37She wants us to go and get an independent survey done
0:45:37 > 0:45:39of the building, £700.
0:45:40 > 0:45:43We've got to pay a lawyer
0:45:43 > 0:45:45to read through the lease.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48That could be £300-£500.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Liability insurance - we already knew we had to get that anyway.
0:45:50 > 0:45:55She telt me it could be £1,400 just for that alone.
0:45:55 > 0:46:00I'm doing all this fundraising and you feel as if you're just hitting your head off a wall.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02It means that everything's going to get spent
0:46:02 > 0:46:06on all the things that's to get done before the door even opens.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08The group are feeling unsupported in their efforts.
0:46:08 > 0:46:12Frustration about unexpected costs delaying any real progress turns
0:46:12 > 0:46:17to anger and suspicion that they may never get back into the building.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24How do you think it went? A waste of fucking time.
0:46:27 > 0:46:30I honestly think they're got something else for the building.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33Ach, I'm saying nothing.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37Absolutely nothing.
0:46:40 > 0:46:44As per usual, a waste of space, councillors.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46A waste of time. They're no wanting us to open the hall.
0:46:46 > 0:46:51They're set for getting it open and then it's a push in the back.
0:46:51 > 0:46:55We're going backwards because they come up with something else that's got to be done.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58And then we'll get that done and then it'll be something else that's got to be done.
0:46:58 > 0:47:04We'll see what happens after getting the business plan and this surveyor in and see what happens from there.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07See whether it's going to be worth our while.
0:47:07 > 0:47:09Obviously, the business plan, it's getting done the morning.
0:47:09 > 0:47:11Should have been done.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14So we've to go the morra and see about getting
0:47:14 > 0:47:16that survey,
0:47:16 > 0:47:18and it's 700 quid for that.
0:47:18 > 0:47:23Next time in the Scheme, Candice and Chris get ready for a baby...
0:47:23 > 0:47:27I swear on that unborn wean's life, I lost £150 in the bookies.
0:47:27 > 0:47:31Chris promises Candice he'll sort himself out.
0:47:31 > 0:47:35I think he is going to get off it.
0:47:35 > 0:47:38I believe him but he'd better hurry up.
0:47:38 > 0:47:40But things go missing in Kay's house.
0:47:40 > 0:47:43That was my fucking wean's Christmas present.
0:47:48 > 0:47:51The Crees continue the fight to get the old community centre open.
0:47:51 > 0:47:55I feel that amount of money, you're just going to be hitting your head off the wall.
0:47:55 > 0:47:59Steven's court case comes up...
0:48:02 > 0:48:04I would be.
0:48:04 > 0:48:05James struggles to stay away from heroin...
0:48:05 > 0:48:08Header.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11And Libby is heartbroken.
0:48:11 > 0:48:14I feel I want to go and get him and bring him home.
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