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Happy as Larry. Could not be happier.

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Could not be happier.

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This programme contains very strong language.

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One large housing scheme in north west Kilmarnock is home to over 1,000 families.

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Just a handful of these households agreed to be filmed over a year.

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The Scheme follows some of their stories. Charting the ups...

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That's the scariest thing I've ever done in my fuckin' life.

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..and downs of life.

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I'm nae use to no cunt.

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The series follows people fighting for the scheme...

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A waste of fucking time.

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..and fighting just to keep their families from falling apart.

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-It used to be a couple of hours of normality. There's none now.

-I'll kiss it. I'll kiss it.

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The McMurray family have lived in the scheme for seven years.

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Today, mum of three Libby has been visited by her daughter Kerry, who also lives in the scheme.

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Libby's eldest son James lives in the house, sharing a room with his cousin Brian.

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I'm going to get a drink of alcohol.

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It's late morning and Kerry has brought round some Schnapps,

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to keep out the winter chill.

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Kerry may be starting early, but James is hot on her heels.

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James has been a heroin addict for years, and every morning

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he has to head out and buy some, before he starts suffering withdrawals.

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I'm just away to score now and sort myself out...hopefully.

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James' youngest brother, 15-year-old Steven, also lives in the house.

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Drugs, that's all he ever does.

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It's starting to get a bit annoying.

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I drink and smoke, but it's no'...it's no' exactly as bad as what he's doing.

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There's James. There'll be snowballs on the wall.

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He'll knock them out. There's one behind you, son.

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James is back after five minutes, having just scored.

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Steven has recently got into serious trouble and is facing a court case,

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accused of breaking into the local post office.

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It's been brutal, man, having to go to court.

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Don't want to do things like that, having to go to court.

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No' at this age anyway, not for things like that. It's just my daftness.

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Trying to change. I'm not trying to change, I am changing.

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Not been in trouble a good wee while now.

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Upstairs, James has just injected his fix.

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It's cold and that. I felt rough.

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I feel better, much better.

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Oh, shit, I've left the grill on, left the grill on.

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Sorry, mate.

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Now I've had that, I've got a nice spring in my step.

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I feel happy go lucky coming on.

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James is about to try and change his life around

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and attempt to try and come off heroin in the next few days.

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Hopefully, fingers crossed, it all goes well.

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I'm confident it's going to happen. I'm just hoping.

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Had it cooking for ages, just forgot about it.

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Last week in the scheme, one family, the Crees, were leading the charge to re-open the old community centre,

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which their parents started and where they used to run clubs for young people and the unemployed.

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Once we get inside, do you think we'll come back out?!

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It's a sit in.

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They were busy raising money any way they could.

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However, their mum was diagnosed with cancer.

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While she received treatment, they were keen to raise her spirits

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by getting the centre open as fast as they could.

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Hopefully, we can get the centre up and running quick

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and get her round there, get her out for a wee while instead of sitting watching the four walls.

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The Crees are working round the clock to get the old community centre open again,

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and today, they've organised a committee meeting in the new centre, 500 yards down the road.

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This is the new North West Area Centre...

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..which is for... there's everything in it -

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doctors, chiropodists,

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Hunter Centre, nursery.

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The only thing that's no' in it is a community centre, which was supposed to be in it.

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They said that there was enough room in here for everybody, which was rubbish. There's no'.

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They expect 45 kids in here, pool table...and all their games.

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You couldn't do that in here. There's no' enough room.

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It's far too wee, so we wouldn't be able to do it.

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At the weekly meeting of the residents' committee, there's huge community support

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to get the business plan ready and to raise the money they need to get the centre open.

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My job's just basically come along and help them on the night, give them a wee bit of advice

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from the council and, hopefully, they can achieve their aims.

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I think it went fairly well.

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Next week's meeting, that's the one that's going to tell what's what.

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But hopefully, get it open within four to six weeks. Hopefully.

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Last time on The Scheme,

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former hell-raisers Gordon and Annie were devastated

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after their eldest son ended up in jail, after a string of charges finally caught up with him.

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-He got eight months

-They give him the full whack.

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Having turned their own lives around, they were desperate

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to keep their other kids on the straight and narrow.

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Their 15-year-old daughter Kimberley won gold for dancing,

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but then got into trouble by lying about going camping with some boys.

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Their 20-year-old son Chris was also constantly in trouble.

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Gordon and Annie needed a break and headed to Majorca on their first-ever family holiday abroad.

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But they couldn't afford to take their son Chris and left him to fend for himself in the scheme.

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They're back from their much-needed break.

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Holy fuck, man. You're away above thae fucking buildings.

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That's the scariest thing I've ever done in my fucking life.

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Never again. And her screaming like a banshee.

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They swing you round about and you're upside down.

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If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have been on it.

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They were calling me a shite bag. No, just horrible.

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Aye, it was a great time, going walks into the town doing shopping,

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going for presents for the grandweans and that.

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Just going out and buying bottles of drink and that for sitting up

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on the banister. But we had a great laugh, aye.

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The Crees have raised nearly £4,000 in their attempt to get the centre open.

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But they really have other things on their mind.

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Aye, I'm there through the night.

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Every night, through the night.

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But I think it's going to have to take two of us to do it now,

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because it's like, aye, it's getting quite...

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I mean, she can't like get up and walk to the toilet or anything.

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You've got to like help her, which is, that's just no' my mam.

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She's just...saying that she knows she dying, but...

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And that's how we want the centre open,

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like, for my mam and all, which is more determination for us,

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after all the work she put into it.

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One of the biggest problems in the scheme is heroin use.

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James had promised to kick his habit but has failed to stay away from the dealers.

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He's just bought another £10 bag of heroin.

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Eh... Funky shit.

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He's also just bought, and taken, 30 Diazepam, known as blues.

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James' habit is spiralling and devastating Libby and the rest of the family.

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Look at the state of him.

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James normally hides his needles in his own room.

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SHOUTING

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Doesn't bother me that he's taking it, it just bothers me, because it bothers my mum.

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I'm just about to snap,

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really seriously, aye, 100%.

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10 year I've been taking it, not getting help from nowhere, help from not a cunt.

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It used to be a couple of hours of normality. There's none now.

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See the state he's in the now, that's what he is all day, every day.

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I just feel like ending it, killing myself, but I couldn't do that to my family.

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Just doesn't want to face up to reality and the normality of life -

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get himself straightened out and coping with life -

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the same as the rest of us have got to do.

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He's in a drug-induced coma 24/7.

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I can hear the camera.

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I want to kiss it.

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I'm going to kiss it.

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Can you see it?

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One couple have lived in the area for over 50 years, and they bought their own house in 2004.

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Harry is a passionate and compulsive gardener.

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There's a lady that comes by. She says it brightens up her day when she comes by here every morning.

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That's good, isn't it?

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And Betty is a passionate and compulsive cleaner.

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That's the way I like it and I get agitated if it's no'.

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-I'll maybe do it and then I'll go back over it later on.

-This is my kingdom.

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This is what I like - to see everything flourishing.

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Then I know it's going to be all right.

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All the time I've been here, nobody's really bothered with my garden at all.

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No vandals or nothing.

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I heard the young ones, they passed the other night, a gang of young boys

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and one says, "Look at the guy's garden,"

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and another says, "Aye, he won an award last year, that wee guy in there."

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Harry's garden is well known in the scheme

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and he's entered the Central-East Ayrshire Gardening Competition again after being runner-up last year.

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There's no many gardens like this up here.

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Some of them are lucky if they'll cut their grass, never mind anything else!

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Harry and Betty have been closer than ever in recent times,

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following a routine hospital operation that went terribly wrong.

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When I was ill, I realised how good a man I had.

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I mean, you're talking about twice a day out at that hospital, for nine months.

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And then he took a wee stroke, due to all the stress with running,

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and then I was three month up at the Royal. He never missed a day.

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I cannae fault him.

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When you get to the point they tell you they can't guarantee your wife's going to make it,

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then it's a big thing. It was really a relief to see her

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when they transferred her to Glasgow and she got fixed up there,

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and then watching her recover, putting the weight back on.

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It's taken her about a year to get to what she was.

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I'm just glad she's here and, as far as I'm concerned,

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she can do what she wants as long as she's still here, that was the main thing.

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But it was really a trying time, it was.

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After their holiday, Gordon and Annie are devastated to hear rumours

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that son Chris has been using heroin and have been trying to lock him in the house and stop him taking it.

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I'm just trying to hold him in until he admits it.

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We've just told him that we want to help him, just to admit the truth - that he is taking it.

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Gordon and Annie are terrified of their son becoming an addict

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and have asked their second-oldest son - 20-year-old David - to watch him.

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Despite endless rumours in the scheme, Chris is denying taking heroin.

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His girlfriend came and telt us everything.

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She told us that he's been taking it for about three months.

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Bryan's broken hearted through it. He says he can't sleep at night in the jail.

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He just wishes it was a week on Friday until he's out.

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He's home a week on Friday.

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I think he's being a wee shit, to be honest. About it all.

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I think he's bent, though.

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He was cuddling into me last night.

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After a brave fight,

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Mrs Cree Sr has lost her second battle with cancer

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and the Crees are devastated by their loss.

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You've just got to go on with it.

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It's when you get up in the morning to come in, you ken, she's no' here.

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Just got to try and be strong and get on with your life...

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..and try and do things that my mother wanted to do.

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We were just getting ready booking up for Blackpool and all for her.

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I was going to go to a different hotel with her,

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because she needed a lift to get up,

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she couldn't walk up the stairs.

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But...just didn't happen.

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But she says, "I'll be here."

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And we were hoping to open the centre in a couple of weeks' time

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and she's just missed it.

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Last time on The Scheme,

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single mum-of-two Kay tried to help several of her eldest daughter's friends,

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who were homeless or struggling with addictions, by allowing them to live in her house.

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With so many young people staying, the police were constantly at the door.

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And Kay even ended up assaulting a neighbour, after she complained about anti-social behaviour.

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Just spoke to me like a piece of shit and I attacked her.

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Eventually, Kay decided to give up trying to help people and move away from the scheme for a fresh start.

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But daughter Candice fell pregnant to Gordon and Annie's son, Chris.

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A month on, Kay has sold up and is now renting a house five miles away in another scheme.

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Kay is dead set against Candice having the baby with Chris and has thrown her out.

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She's determined she's having it, so just letting her get on with it.

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She's put in for her own house now,

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so I don't know. But I don't know where she's getting

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the money to furnish it and all that. I'm no helping her.

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I just want her to learn how hard it's going to be, because it's no' easy.

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I mean, she's nae money,

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she's no' going to get any money until she's, what, 18?

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Chris is on the buroo.

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He gets about 60 something pound a fortnight.

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By the time he gets it, he owes it all out.

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I says to her the other night, I says, "Who's going to keep you?"

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She went, "You." No, I don't think so. I've got my own house to keep.

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Chrissy texted me a power of cheek,

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because I had says, "What are you going to do if you've got

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"a tenner and you're needing nappies and milk,

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"and Chrissy needs a bag of smack? Who's going to win?"

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So, obviously, it's Chrissy.

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He's got a habit, he needs it.

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That's nae way to bring up a wean.

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Kay's daughter Candice is now staying with Chris's parents,

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Gordon and Annie, while she waits to try and get a flat on the housing list.

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She can't believe her mum has left her to stand on her own two feet.

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I think she's pure blackmailing me.

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She texted me saying, "Get rid of the wean and you can move back in."

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I'm like that, "Oh, my God."

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Pure hate her, man.

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I'm just going to end up deleting her number and ignoring her texts or eventually changing my number,

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because I cannae put up with it any more.

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Like, before I found out I was pregnant, we were talking about having a wean and that.

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And then it just happened.

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But...I do want it.

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He wants it and all.

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I don't know what he's doing and now I can't text him, because he's no' got a phone.

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He says he couldn't be bothered having a phone.

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So I won't ken where he is, probably.

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Back at Libby's house, James is trying to come off heroin again,

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this time with his mum's help.

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It's day two of the battle.

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I've just got to get meth... and just take it for a few days

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and then just rough it out for a few days after that and it should be all right, after a week, ten days.

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I think he's doing all right,

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Aye, doin' no bad.

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Taking it a day at a time.

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Libby has bought James some methadone from a local dealer.

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Doctors often prescribe methadone as a substitute for heroin

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and Libby is planning to buy him what he needs every day, to help him with his cravings.

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A tenner for 60 mil of meth.

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Up in Glasgow, it's a tenner for 100 mil.

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Going down the back way.

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James is off to cash in his Giro and pay his mum back.

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Normally, with any cash in his pocket, he'd go straight for a bag of heroin.

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Call at the post office to cash my money and pay what I'm due to people.

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This is a pure shithole of a place, isn't it? A shithole of a place.

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Derelict buildings everywhere.

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'Every few streets you go, every couple of streets there's a known dealer, a good ten, maybe 12,

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'and that's just within a couple of minutes walk from here.'

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While Libby waits for James to come back with her cash, her youngest son Steven

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is attending a course for kids that have been excluded from mainstream school.

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Induction, health and safety.

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I just got that a couple of weeks ago, saying is there a first aid built into it?

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Did you no say, "I know all this because I did it in my induction?"

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-I've done it five times.

-I've done it three times.

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There's nothing wrong with doing it more than once. You'll know exactly what to do.

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Steven has a dedicated tutor on the course who thinks that

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he's at a crucial point, and could turn his life around.

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Depends, I would say, on Steven's personal issues

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and how home life is and how it's affected in here.

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I would say that's, if there's something on his mind and that, his behaviour can get a bit extreme.

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Steven's a very clever boy but he's just, the way he's focussing is just all wrong.

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He's very, I think, Steven, it's...

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When his social worker arrives, Steven suddenly decides to lock himself in the toilets.

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You go and eat your lunch and don't you worry about it.

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You see, this is Steven getting into a bit of state

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because I don't know what he thinks about what's going to happen here.

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Sorry, he's there, he's come out, he's come out the bathroom.

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I knew he would come out. He does this. He says he's going to do things but he never really...

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He doesn't follow through with it.

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Steven finally agrees to talk to his social worker

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about his court case for allegedly breaking into the post office.

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-Bye, Steven.

-Dylan. Please.

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James is just leaving the post office his brother is accused

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of breaking into with the money from his giro.

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A poxy £100.

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No cunt's getting nothing.

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I'm shaking, man, like a fuckin' alcoholic.

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Oh, that's nasty.

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Feel a tiny wee bit rough. If I drink two of these I'll be brand new, I hope.

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James is back with money to repay Libby, and the money to buy the next methadone hit from the dealers.

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I'll settle for 20, right?

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That's a deal. A deal and a half.

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Going to be rough for the first five, seven days,

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and then he'll start feeling the benefit of it.

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So we'll just keep our fingers crossed that he comes back out the other end of it.

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Back at the charity that supports him,

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Steven has been kicking off again.

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He can be such a positive influence on his peers but he chooses to go

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the other way with the negative behaviour rather than the positive.

0:27:010:27:04

It's always laughing and making fun of people and he doesn't see that as bullying.

0:27:040:27:09

I do believe he is worried about the court thing that's coming up,

0:27:090:27:13

but he has to understand that it's his consequences.

0:27:130:27:18

Steven needs to improve his behaviour,

0:27:180:27:21

or he'll be excluded from his last hope of any real education.

0:27:210:27:25

Annie is taking Nicola, her son Bryan's partner,

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and baby to visit him in jail.

0:27:380:27:41

Bryan hates to be locked up.

0:27:500:27:52

Bryan likes to be out in the open, and that's what'll be dementing him.

0:27:520:27:56

He went back up to his cell last week and they were all sitting in his cell burning smack.

0:27:560:28:00

Don't get me wrong, he smokes hash.

0:28:000:28:03

But he'd never take smack.

0:28:060:28:09

He's seen what it's done to my nephews and everything.

0:28:090:28:11

Behind bars, Bryan is also devastated to hear the rumours about Chris taking heroin.

0:28:110:28:16

I've a brother who's been on it from when he was 14 year old, he's still on it.

0:28:350:28:40

Know what I mean? And I've seen what he's done, know what I mean? Stealing and whatever,

0:28:400:28:45

to get it. It's no nice.

0:28:450:28:48

I'm going to take this buggy, then I'll come back and get Jai.

0:28:480:28:52

Bryan, he's on the phone to his dad two nights ago.

0:28:520:28:55

Then I came in and Gordon telt me and he says, "Will you take me down to Nicola's?"

0:29:030:29:06

And he says to Nicola, "You want to stop accusing him of taking heroin."

0:29:060:29:11

Nicola goes, "What are you talking about? I was only joking with him."

0:29:110:29:14

On Tourhill Road, Harry and Betty have just had a letter telling them the judges

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from the Central East Ayrshire Gardening competition will be coming to assess their garden in a month.

0:29:350:29:40

Oh, it's quite exciting.

0:29:400:29:42

He's put a lot of work into it, definitely has,

0:29:420:29:46

a lot of work.

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It'd be a shame for anything to go wrong now.

0:29:480:29:50

It's all hands on deck and Harry has called in help to get things ready.

0:29:530:29:59

We just ken Harry cos he used to stay down the road.

0:29:590:30:01

Asked me if I'd come up and give him a wee hand to get his plants out

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because he's such a small fellow.

0:30:040:30:07

He's taken a lend of me for my height.

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There's quite a few folk come up and get a look at his garden,

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take pictures on their phones.

0:30:170:30:19

That's it, I just finished putting the fence ones on.

0:30:230:30:26

Basically that'll be everything done, pal.

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Just keep watering them until the end of the season.

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-I'll see you next year.

-I'll look forward to it.

0:30:370:30:41

One of the few young ones that's going about and never in any trouble, Martin,

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never into drugs or nothing like that.

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Smashing big fellow, really helpful with old people, especially.

0:30:500:30:54

He'll go out of his way to help anyone. Nice boy.

0:30:550:30:59

Harry is determined to go one better,

0:31:040:31:08

and this year, hopefully win first place.

0:31:080:31:11

It's the morning of Mrs Cree senior's funeral,

0:31:220:31:25

and the whole family gather in her house for the last time.

0:31:250:31:29

I just thought that she was my mam but I feel that she's like a special friend.

0:31:330:31:37

I could go to my mother with anything.

0:31:370:31:41

I was actually the last one to talk to her. When I came in,

0:31:410:31:45

she was sitting getting her breakfast, normal, laughing and joking,

0:31:450:31:49

and she told me that there's nae way she was going back to Crosshouse Hospital.

0:31:490:31:53

As soon as we told her the ambulance was there for her,

0:31:530:31:56

it was if somebody'd just put a light switch off, and she was gone in a matter of minutes.

0:31:560:32:02

Devastated. Can't believe it.

0:32:020:32:05

She was a mam in a million.

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Nobody could have asked for a mam like her.

0:32:100:32:12

It's hard.

0:32:120:32:14

Because every time I shut my eyes, I just saw my mam.

0:32:170:32:19

Keep hearing her shouting me, because it was me that was here through the night.

0:32:190:32:23

Keep hearing her shouting me for the toilet, go down and she's no there.

0:32:250:32:29

The only thing is that she'll no be here when the centre re-opens.

0:32:320:32:37

It's not going to be the same walking through the door

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with the one that originally put the door in 30-odd year ago.

0:32:400:32:43

Gordon and Annie are having a double family celebration,

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as it's the 21st birthday of their son David,

0:33:130:33:17

and their eldest son Bryan has also just got out of jail.

0:33:170:33:22

Preparations for the party are going well, but not for Kimberley.

0:33:470:33:52

-Stressing, man. My fake tan, it just went all wrong.

-Dodgy beautician.

0:33:520:33:56

She says it's my dry skin. I've no even got dry skin,

0:33:560:33:59

so I don't even ken what she's talking about probably.

0:33:590:34:02

My belly's no that bad.

0:34:020:34:04

Look at that tan.

0:34:040:34:06

- I know. - Did you no tell her about it?

0:34:060:34:08

Aye, she says there's nothing she could do, it's just dry skin.

0:34:080:34:12

Dry skin.

0:34:120:34:14

Kimberley's tan is not the family's biggest problem.

0:34:140:34:17

They still suspect that Chris is using heroin,

0:34:170:34:20

even though he continues to deny it.

0:34:200:34:23

He knows the way I feel.

0:34:230:34:25

If it continues, then he's going to let myself down.

0:34:250:34:28

It's no fair on my mum and dad.

0:34:280:34:30

All us want to do is care for them,

0:34:300:34:32

flung it back in their faces a bit.

0:34:320:34:34

I'm just glad Bryan's out, because

0:34:340:34:38

we were all falling out and everything, all through it. The whole family was arguing through it.

0:34:380:34:43

One minute he's happy and then the next minute he's pure snappy at me,

0:34:430:34:47

and pure grumpy and all that, so...

0:34:470:34:50

And he just sleeps all the time. All he does is sleep.

0:34:520:34:55

I would prefer him to get back on the drink. It's much better.

0:34:550:34:59

I'd rather him on the drinking

0:34:590:35:02

than what he's doing.

0:35:020:35:04

With Kimberley's tan sorted and the party revving up, the family head for town.

0:35:040:35:09

I wouldn't be able to dance with these on.

0:35:090:35:12

I've no worn heels like this for years, no this height anyway.

0:35:120:35:16

I'm bringing my flip flops with me in case, my diamante flip flops, and I just dance with flat shoes on.

0:35:160:35:21

At Libby's, a week after he came off heroin,

0:35:310:35:35

James is still clean of drugs and is being supported by the whole family.

0:35:350:35:39

His cousin Brian is also trying to quit.

0:35:390:35:44

It will be my 14th day tomorrow, two weeks.

0:35:440:35:46

I feel great. I do, I feel brilliant, you know what I mean?

0:35:460:35:49

Like I was saying earlier, I would rather go and get a drink now than I would buy drugs.

0:35:490:35:54

I can't stop thinking about it. I think about it all the time.

0:35:540:36:00

That should pass hopefully.

0:36:000:36:02

I think I've defeated drugs, aye.

0:36:020:36:05

No temptations at all, know what I mean?

0:36:050:36:07

It's just the staying off them,

0:36:070:36:09

that's the problem. Just push each other, know what I mean,

0:36:090:36:12

in the right direction, I mean, to help each other out.

0:36:120:36:17

Trying my best just to help him and that, and since he's come off it,

0:36:270:36:31

man, me and him have been the best pals and that, sitting

0:36:310:36:33

talking to me and that now, and he's wanting to talk to me rather than it just being forced on him.

0:36:330:36:38

It's brilliant, man.

0:36:380:36:40

Gordon and Annie's party is in full swing.

0:36:450:36:49

A few drinks in, Annie's heels finally get the better of her.

0:36:540:36:59

Look at the shoes she's wearing! Five-inch heels!

0:37:070:37:09

After denying being involved with heroin, Chris has finally admitted

0:37:110:37:15

to his mum that he needs help.

0:37:150:37:17

Annie's not the only one worried about Chris.

0:37:370:37:41

Candice is still not talking to her mum, and she's relying on Chris to support her during her pregnancy.

0:37:410:37:48

With a couple of weeks to go before the judges visit, Harry can't risk

0:38:050:38:08

his plants being over-watered by a green-fingered grandson.

0:38:080:38:13

I just made that box up for him. It keeps him occupied.

0:38:140:38:17

It saves him from playing with that hose, because he puts too much water in my plants,

0:38:170:38:21

so I gave him a wee garden of his own so's he could put as much water

0:38:210:38:24

as he likes in it, because the plants are all plastic.

0:38:240:38:27

Harry and Betty are garden and houseproud and also have pride in the scheme.

0:38:320:38:36

It's a nice place.

0:38:360:38:40

You cannae change people's habits

0:38:400:38:43

and how they want to live.

0:38:450:38:48

If they don't want to keep a tidy place,

0:38:480:38:51

it's hard to change their habits.

0:38:510:38:54

I mean, you get houses there with young fellas

0:38:540:38:57

and young couples in the house and they can't cut the grass. They've a thing the size of a postage stamp.

0:38:570:39:01

Could be a lot to do with unemployment.

0:39:010:39:03

There again, a lot of them is unemployed. They've nothing else to do. They cannae cut the grass?!

0:39:030:39:07

I think they lost their, I don't know, self-esteem.

0:39:070:39:11

Years ago you could go out and get a job.

0:39:110:39:13

You could go from one job to another, but no now.

0:39:130:39:16

There's been a new addition to Libby's family.

0:39:260:39:29

We got a new wee dog two days ago,

0:39:290:39:32

half Staff and half God-knows whatever,

0:39:320:39:36

and her name's Bess.

0:39:360:39:40

She but she just gets up and widdles all over the place,

0:39:400:39:45

on the chairs, anywhere at all.

0:39:450:39:48

After his aggressive behaviour at the course got worse, Steven has been asked to take time out.

0:39:480:39:55

I do think I bully folk, aye.

0:39:550:39:57

No intentionally, it's just... See like if somebody says something wrong to me, I automatically

0:39:570:40:01

defend myself even if they don't mean anything bad by it, jump right on them and just get them telt.

0:40:010:40:07

Upstairs, James is still managing to stay off heroin by using methadone,

0:40:170:40:23

although he's now also started taking Valium to ease his cravings.

0:40:230:40:27

Fuckin' cutting myself to bits here, man.

0:40:430:40:46

Nearly two weeks, couple of days off two weeks.

0:40:510:40:55

Does it get easier?

0:40:560:40:59

No. Harder if anything.

0:40:590:41:01

Libby is trying to keep both her boys on track,

0:41:060:41:08

but it's the first day of Steven's court case tomorrow and there's the chance he may be locked up.

0:41:080:41:14

Just got to be there for him, that's it.

0:41:350:41:37

-He's away, Steven.

-This dog just pissed on the chair.

0:41:410:41:44

Pishes everywhere.

0:41:440:41:46

The Crees' plans to open the old community centre are on hold,

0:41:550:41:59

as the family rally round to clear their mum's house for the new occupants.

0:41:590:42:04

It's really hard emptying it,

0:42:070:42:09

so it is.

0:42:090:42:10

At the end of the day, everything that you pick up

0:42:140:42:18

was my mother's. Just gutted. I just wish my mother was here.

0:42:180:42:24

We just have to get on with it.

0:42:290:42:31

Words couldn't explain how I feel, to tell you the truth.

0:42:330:42:36

It's sick more than anything.

0:42:360:42:39

It'll take a long while to get over, I think.

0:42:430:42:47

So we're more determined now for the centre

0:42:470:42:50

because that's what my mam wanted.

0:42:500:42:53

With the loss of one of the main drivers behind their enthusiasm to get the centre open,

0:42:530:42:58

the Crees' sense of community spirit is now going to be more important than ever.

0:42:580:43:03

It's the day of Steven's court case, and Libby hasn't slept.

0:43:120:43:18

I'm trying to keep my stomach at bay.

0:43:200:43:22

Just nervous,

0:43:220:43:24

like every time I go to court with any one of them, I feel this way.

0:43:240:43:29

It's just no knowing what to expect.

0:43:300:43:32

The first day of the court hearing will reveal what evidence there might be against Steven

0:43:370:43:41

and whether the CCTV footage from the post office shows he was involved in the break-in.

0:43:410:43:47

Round at Kay's house, Candice has been visiting.

0:43:530:43:55

After falling out with her mum and weeks of not talking, they've now made up again.

0:43:550:44:00

Didn't fall out long.

0:44:020:44:05

She was back wanting money or something.

0:44:050:44:07

More like you wanting money off me.

0:44:070:44:09

-Aye, right, whatever.

-"Did you get your giro the day?"

0:44:090:44:13

No, I don't think so.

0:44:130:44:15

Chris and Candice are still together, although she thinks Chris still has his own problems.

0:44:150:44:20

He's away to the doctor's today

0:44:200:44:24

to see if he can get put on a script.

0:44:240:44:27

Just telling his doctor's he's got a habit and to try and get DFs and blues or meth, or what.

0:44:270:44:34

He wants to come off it,

0:44:340:44:36

but he just fucks it up every time.

0:44:360:44:39

He'll start to do it and then he'll just get too agitated

0:44:390:44:44

and just give up.

0:44:440:44:46

Well, hopefully he does get off it and get himself together for this wean coming. I don't think he will.

0:44:460:44:50

He'd better get off it.

0:44:540:44:56

Led by the Crees, the residents' committee have raised nearly 4,500 hard fought pounds

0:44:590:45:06

to re-open the old community centre,

0:45:060:45:08

and today, two local councillors have turned up to add their support and meet the group.

0:45:080:45:13

The council have offered the lease for just a pound, but Marion Cree

0:45:150:45:18

has just had a meeting to finalise the business plan

0:45:180:45:21

and she's starting to realise that they still have a long way to go

0:45:210:45:25

before they get things up and running.

0:45:250:45:27

Basically, they want us to spend all the money that we've got before the doors are even opened.

0:45:290:45:32

She wants us to go and get an independent survey done

0:45:320:45:37

of the building, £700.

0:45:370:45:39

We've got to pay a lawyer

0:45:400:45:43

to read through the lease.

0:45:430:45:45

That could be £300-£500.

0:45:450:45:48

Liability insurance - we already knew we had to get that anyway.

0:45:480:45:50

She telt me it could be £1,400 just for that alone.

0:45:500:45:55

I'm doing all this fundraising and you feel as if you're just hitting your head off a wall.

0:45:550:46:00

It means that everything's going to get spent

0:46:000:46:02

on all the things that's to get done before the door even opens.

0:46:020:46:06

The group are feeling unsupported in their efforts.

0:46:060:46:08

Frustration about unexpected costs delaying any real progress turns

0:46:080:46:12

to anger and suspicion that they may never get back into the building.

0:46:120:46:17

How do you think it went? A waste of fucking time.

0:46:210:46:24

I honestly think they're got something else for the building.

0:46:270:46:30

Ach, I'm saying nothing.

0:46:300:46:33

Absolutely nothing.

0:46:340:46:37

As per usual, a waste of space, councillors.

0:46:400:46:44

A waste of time. They're no wanting us to open the hall.

0:46:440:46:46

They're set for getting it open and then it's a push in the back.

0:46:460:46:51

We're going backwards because they come up with something else that's got to be done.

0:46:510:46:55

And then we'll get that done and then it'll be something else that's got to be done.

0:46:550:46:58

We'll see what happens after getting the business plan and this surveyor in and see what happens from there.

0:46:580:47:04

See whether it's going to be worth our while.

0:47:040:47:07

Obviously, the business plan, it's getting done the morning.

0:47:070:47:09

Should have been done.

0:47:090:47:11

So we've to go the morra and see about getting

0:47:110:47:14

that survey,

0:47:140:47:16

and it's 700 quid for that.

0:47:160:47:18

Next time in the Scheme, Candice and Chris get ready for a baby...

0:47:180:47:23

I swear on that unborn wean's life, I lost £150 in the bookies.

0:47:230:47:27

Chris promises Candice he'll sort himself out.

0:47:270:47:31

I think he is going to get off it.

0:47:310:47:35

I believe him but he'd better hurry up.

0:47:350:47:38

But things go missing in Kay's house.

0:47:380:47:40

That was my fucking wean's Christmas present.

0:47:400:47:43

The Crees continue the fight to get the old community centre open.

0:47:480:47:51

I feel that amount of money, you're just going to be hitting your head off the wall.

0:47:510:47:55

Steven's court case comes up...

0:47:550:47:59

I would be.

0:48:020:48:04

James struggles to stay away from heroin...

0:48:040:48:05

Header.

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And Libby is heartbroken.

0:48:080:48:11

I feel I want to go and get him and bring him home.

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