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