0:00:03 > 0:00:10This programme contains very strong language
0:00:29 > 0:00:31One large scheme in northwest Kilmarnock
0:00:31 > 0:00:35is home to over 1,000 families.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39A few of those families agreed to be filmed over a year.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The Scheme follows six of the most colourful,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45and sometimes chaotic, households, charting the ups...
0:00:50 > 0:00:52..and downs of life.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56"So, so, sorry, and I'll love you forever and a day."
0:00:56 > 0:00:59The series follows people fighting for the scheme.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02That amount of money, you're just going to be hitting your heid aff the wall.
0:01:02 > 0:01:07And fighting just to keep their families from falling apart.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10He could die or anything in my house, then we all get roped into a murder.
0:01:10 > 0:01:11No, it's not happening.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14Header.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Previously on The Scheme,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26former hell-raisers Gordon and Annie were desperate
0:01:26 > 0:01:28to keep their family on the straight and narrow.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Don't start shouting at me, you're not staying out.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33Aye, awright.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Their eldest son Brian served a spell in jail
0:01:35 > 0:01:38after a long list of charges finally caught up with him.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40They gied him the full whack.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45That man had says he called him all the Bin Laden bastards and all that.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49If that wasn't bad enough, they heard rumours
0:01:49 > 0:01:52that their youngest son, 20-year-old Chris, was taking heroin.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55We've just telt him that we want to help him,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57just to admit the truth that he is taking it.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Chris, though, is denying everything.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Chris had also got his 16-year-old girlfriend Candice pregnant.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12We were talking about having a wean and that, then it just happened.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Candice's mum, Kay,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18was dead against Candice having a baby with Chris.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22What are you going to do if you've got a tenner, right,
0:02:22 > 0:02:27and you're needing nappies and milk, and Chrissy needs a bag of smack? Who's going to win?
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Candice was determined to stay with Chris
0:02:31 > 0:02:33and convinced he would be there for her.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36He wants to come aff it, but every...
0:02:36 > 0:02:39He just fucks it up, every time.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Two months on, Chris has managed to get a house from a charity
0:02:43 > 0:02:47that supports the homeless, and Candice has moved in with him.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Chris is still denying taking heroin.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53- So, definitely you're not using? - No.
0:02:58 > 0:02:59What's the time, Candice?
0:02:59 > 0:03:00Five to two.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Chris may be denying things,
0:03:05 > 0:03:08but Candice is still worrying about what she's seeing
0:03:08 > 0:03:13and whether he will be there for her during the pregnancy.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Chris's parents, Gordon and Annie,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35are devastated about the changes they're seeing in Chris.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38He's...fucked up with that junk.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Tried my best wi' him, but just nae help for him.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45Annie is on the phone to Candice's mum, Kay,
0:03:45 > 0:03:47as Annie thinks she has some information
0:03:47 > 0:03:50about a Wii that was stolen from Kay.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00Kay's wee lassie's Wii got stolen out her house,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04and it's supposed to be a certain boy's got it, bought it for £60.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07I was telling her a Wii got selt two weeks ago,
0:04:07 > 0:04:10that's when the wean's got stolen out the house,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13and I telt her the boy's name who selt it and who he selt it to,
0:04:13 > 0:04:18because, I've got a feeling it could be that, it could be the wean's.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Annie's call means Kay now knows the person in the scheme
0:04:23 > 0:04:26who has bought her daughter Kendal's stolen Wii,
0:04:26 > 0:04:29and she already knows his number.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Kendal's Wii and Wii Fit
0:04:30 > 0:04:34- and her games and all that got stolen two weeks ago.- Shh.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36RINGING TONE
0:04:36 > 0:04:38- Who's that?- 'Hello?'
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Hello.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53First it was a laptop, two phones, the wean's Nintendo DS,
0:04:53 > 0:04:56and now her Wii and Wii Fit and all that, so I'm getting him charged.
0:04:56 > 0:05:02The new owner of the Wii is saying that he bought it from Chris.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05It was Chrissy that stole the wean's Wii.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Kay thinks Candice must have helped Chris steal the Wii,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10and is furious with her.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Last time on The Scheme,
0:05:25 > 0:05:27one family, the Crees, were leading the fight
0:05:27 > 0:05:31to re-open the old community centre, which their mum and dad had started
0:05:31 > 0:05:35and their family had been running as volunteers for two generations.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Once we get inside, do you think we'll come back out?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43It's a sit-in!
0:05:44 > 0:05:46They had a huge emotional attachment to the centre,
0:05:46 > 0:05:49and were fund-raising round the clock to get the doors open.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53But after their mum got diagnosed with cancer and then passed away,
0:05:53 > 0:05:57it looked as if their loss might stop them in their tracks.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01I just thought, she was my mam, but I feel she was a special friend.
0:06:01 > 0:06:06But as their mum had wanted, the family rallied together again.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09So we're more determined now for the centre,
0:06:09 > 0:06:11cos that's what my mum wanted.
0:06:11 > 0:06:16They had a crucial meeting with two councillors, where tempers flared.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17SHOUTING
0:06:17 > 0:06:21They were frustrated about several unexpected costs
0:06:21 > 0:06:23eating into their hard-earned funds.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25I asked you one thing!
0:06:25 > 0:06:29We're doing this fund-raising and you feel as if you're just hitting your heid aff a wall.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33Including having to pay for a survey on the building
0:06:33 > 0:06:35before they took it on.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37How do you think it went? A waste of fuckin' time.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42A month on, with the survey now booked in and paid for,
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Anne and Janet Cree decide to check out the state
0:06:46 > 0:06:48of the old community centre for themselves.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52See there's a big crack right up the middle of the building
0:06:52 > 0:06:54going right up to the roof.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56I actually seen another one and all round here.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59See that bit there, going right down.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Just need to wait until the surveyor comes and see what he says about it.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07The council have offered the rent for the old community centre for just £1,
0:07:07 > 0:07:09but the residents' committee will have to prove
0:07:09 > 0:07:12that they can pay for any maintenance and repairs
0:07:12 > 0:07:16before they get the keys, including fixing any cracks.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18There's another big bit, Janet.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22Twa great big cracks right up to the window ledge and all,
0:07:22 > 0:07:24actually right through the window ledge.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28Hopefully it's no' anything serious, but if it is, it'll cost,
0:07:28 > 0:07:30really cost to get it done.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Last time on The Scheme,
0:07:36 > 0:07:41Libby was desperate for her eldest son James to kick his heroin habit.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44There used to be a couple of hours of normality, there's none now.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52With the family in turmoil, her second son, 15-year-old Steven,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55had gone off the rails, and had been excluded,
0:07:55 > 0:07:59first from mainstream school, and then a charity-run support unit.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07He'd also picked up a charge
0:08:07 > 0:08:10for allegedly breaking into the local post office.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Steven, though, had realised he didn't want
0:08:13 > 0:08:16to follow his brother into a future of crime and drugs,
0:08:16 > 0:08:20and was determined to turn his life around.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23I don't want to be having to go to court, not at this age anyway,
0:08:23 > 0:08:25not for things like that, it's just my daftness.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Today is the first part of the court hearing,
0:08:29 > 0:08:32and Steven could get locked up for a year.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35His sister Kerry is there to lend her support,
0:08:35 > 0:08:38as she has done several jail sentences herself.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41I'm a bit nervous, but it should be all right, man.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44He's my wee brother, so hopefully he should be all right.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46It's his trial we're more worrying about.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50Obviously we're still worrying today, cos it's my wee brother at court.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52I've been through it and I know what it's like.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56He'll probably be a bit paranoid, but he should be all right. Hopefully, anyway.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00A wee bit nervous, just because I'm going in to see the judge and that.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Me and the judge are best pals!
0:09:11 > 0:09:14At Chris's house, he is denying stealing the Wii from Kay,
0:09:14 > 0:09:17and although Candice is expecting,
0:09:17 > 0:09:20her Mum is refusing to have any more contact with her.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29And he was with me all weekend and all.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Told him he better get aff it soon,
0:09:32 > 0:09:35or I'm not going to be with him any more.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41It's just, I cannae take any more of it.
0:09:41 > 0:09:42It's pure stressing me out,
0:09:42 > 0:09:47cos he goes in bad moods and that, if he cannae get any,
0:09:47 > 0:09:49and it's me that gets it, but...
0:09:52 > 0:09:54He better get aff it soon.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Candice is expecting a little girl in three months' time.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Back at court, Steven's case is still going on, and centred
0:10:10 > 0:10:15around the CCTV from the post office on the night of the break-in.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19They just went through the statements from the lawyer
0:10:19 > 0:10:23and telt us more or less what might happen,
0:10:23 > 0:10:26but they're not releasing the CCTV.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Just need to wait and see if the judge will push it on for us,
0:10:28 > 0:10:31cos there's not much we can do till we get it.
0:10:31 > 0:10:36Steven's court case is finally adjourned so that his defence team
0:10:36 > 0:10:40have a chance to assess the CCTV evidence for themselves.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Last time on The Scheme,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53compulsive cleaner Betty...
0:10:53 > 0:10:56I'll maybe do it then I'll go back over it later on.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59- ..and garden-mad Harry...- I like to see everything flourishing,
0:10:59 > 0:11:01then I know it's going to be all right.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05..entered the Central East Ayrshire Gardening Competition.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07I'm excited for Harry.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11It'd be a shame for anything to go wrong now.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16Today's the big day, and the judges are expected at any minute.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18They'll probably have a clipboard or something with them.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Marks for this and marks for that, whatever.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24But they know what they're talking about,
0:11:24 > 0:11:26because they know all the different flowers,
0:11:26 > 0:11:30and the begonias and everything, cos one of them is a begonia man,
0:11:30 > 0:11:32he likes begonias, far as I know.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35I see somebody driving up here.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38I better let Harry out, because he's the man.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Put that fag away.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42After week's of planting, crimping and preening,
0:11:42 > 0:11:46the moment of truth has arrived for Harry.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Hello, how you keeping?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51The first thing we look for is quality of the plant material,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54It doesn't matter if it's flowers, vegetables or grass,
0:11:54 > 0:11:57we must have the quality.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01And then, after that, it's actually the setup,
0:12:01 > 0:12:07the design, and also the blending-in of colour, which is good.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Last year, Harry came runner-up in the competition,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14to a lady whose garden has already won 14 years in a row.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17See Betty, she's desperate to win.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20She's no' like me, Betty, Betty likes to be number one.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22She was delighted last year when I got runner-up.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25I don't know what she'll be like this year if I win it.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Initially, the judges seem impressed,
0:12:29 > 0:12:35however, one judge has a few improvements regarding Harry's begonias.
0:12:35 > 0:12:41It's what they call laurentia, or isotoma, as it's called now,
0:12:41 > 0:12:45and it would be nice and it's not so overpowering as this,
0:12:45 > 0:12:48and you could put that actually through that.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50You can't see your begonia there.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53But I'm impressed with that, that is actually nice
0:12:53 > 0:12:55blend of colour.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58- Well done.- Thank you.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Is this you on a Saturday night here?
0:13:01 > 0:13:05After half an hour, the judging is over.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07I think it went quite well.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09But as he says, there are a lot of gardens to cover.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14We're under the private garden section.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18So, here's hoping.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21But I think, all in all, they were pleased with it.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23They says it was very, very good,
0:13:23 > 0:13:27and he was taking into consideration the weather conditions up here.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29- But then again, Harry enjoys it. - That's it.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31It's nothing to do with prizes.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Prizes is a wee...
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Last time on The Scheme,
0:13:48 > 0:13:52James was trying to get off heroin with Libby buying him methadone
0:13:52 > 0:13:56every day from local dealers to try and help his cravings.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58I think about it all the time.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02That should pass, hopefully.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06James was struggling to stay clean of heroin but doing well,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09and looked as if he might have finally kicked his habit.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12He's doing all right.
0:14:12 > 0:14:13Taking it a day at a time.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16A month later, though, he's back from town
0:14:16 > 0:14:18and has just got away from the police.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23You cannae take them anywhere.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26He seems fed up with it all and all.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29That's all he's seen most of his adult life.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Drugs.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:45 > 0:16:49Surveyors have arrived to assess the community centre.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55The question is how bad have the cracks got,
0:16:55 > 0:16:57and are there even more problems lurking?
0:16:57 > 0:17:02The Ardbeg Centre, 13 Ardbeg Avenue, date of inspection.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06Nothing happens in the scheme without people knowing about it,
0:17:06 > 0:17:08and after a few minutes the Crees turn up
0:17:08 > 0:17:10to check on the surveyors' progress.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11Hiya.
0:17:11 > 0:17:16I only had a cursory walk round, but on first viewing there's nothing...
0:17:16 > 0:17:21- It's not as if the walls are falling down...- No, there's a few cracks, but...- Bit of plaster.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24I think it's going to be a lot more money need spent on it than that, in fairness.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27The windows aren't in the best of order, either.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29It's quite expensive to buy these windows.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32It is a sizeable document we're going to give you, not like two pages.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36The guy's saying there will be money to be spent, we all knew that,
0:17:36 > 0:17:38and if the weans would leave the...place alone -
0:17:38 > 0:17:41going to swear there but I thought I'd better not -
0:17:41 > 0:17:45then... I don't know, we'll just need to wait and see what happens.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50The Crees are desperate to re-open the centre for the community.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54That is, if they can afford any repairs that the survey throws up.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Even though he's been excluded from mainstream school,
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Libby is still desperate to get her youngest son Steven
0:18:08 > 0:18:12back into some sort of education, and has come in to the charity
0:18:12 > 0:18:14that asked him to take time out for bad behaviour
0:18:14 > 0:18:18to see if they will take him back onto their education programme.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Steven was involved in a bit of homophobic bullying.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25Steven decided that it would be OK to give him some abuse.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27How come it's always me, but?
0:18:27 > 0:18:30There was other folk doing it and all, nae cunt else got pulled to the side.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32- Here!- Well, man, nae wonder.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34We have to get to a point where we can get you back in,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37- and to support you moving on, how do we do that?- Aye.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40- You have to want to come in, Steven...- I do.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43And you have to want to be in here buying into the programme.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47I know, and we've been here before and you sit there and you "yes, no..."
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Well, nae wonder, man.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50We're here to support you, right?
0:18:50 > 0:18:53And the behaviour you did that day is not acceptable,
0:18:53 > 0:18:56and we can't have you in here when you do that.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58How did it get to the point that day
0:18:58 > 0:19:01where it was like totally, really aggressive?
0:19:01 > 0:19:04I think at that point Steven was starting to show off
0:19:04 > 0:19:07in front of other young people, that's what it was.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08Probably, aye.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11That what it sounds like.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Is there anything you want to say?
0:19:14 > 0:19:15No.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18No?
0:19:23 > 0:19:29Back at the house, James has had a close call after overdosing.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33His cousin Brian saved his life by calling in paramedics.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36He was just lying there on the bed with his eyes shut,
0:19:36 > 0:19:39not moving, not talking, I was shouting on him, no reply,
0:19:39 > 0:19:44and I knew straightaway there was something wrong with that, know what I mean?
0:19:59 > 0:20:04The paramedics have brought James round this time.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07And Steven has charmed his way to another chance on the course.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08I'm back in, sorted,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11instead of sitting on my arse all day in the house.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26You've got to listen to these folk,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28because that's what rules and regulations are for.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Steven has another chance,
0:20:32 > 0:20:35but James has blown his opportunity to come clean,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38and is back, heavily addicted.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Fuckin' idiot, man.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43I could fuckin' kick myself, so I could.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46But it's done now, I cannae fuckin' change it.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Cannae turn the clock back.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50But I can only try and make things better.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53I was fuckin' that determined to do it, too,
0:20:53 > 0:20:56and then just... I don't know, man, I just fucked up.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05After months looking for a job,
0:21:05 > 0:21:10Gordon is now working in a local food processing plant.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Aye, it's a job, obviously.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Gordon has been promoted to supervisor
0:21:25 > 0:21:30and has managed to get his 21-year-old son, David, on to the books.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Well, where's the supervisor?
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Just jealousy with him.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Gordon has got David a job, and his daughter,
0:21:49 > 0:21:5416-year-old Kimberley, has also started at the local hairdressers.
0:21:54 > 0:21:5720-year-old Chris may be about to become a dad,
0:21:57 > 0:22:01but his behaviour is getting the whole family down.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03It's all you hear in this house.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Drugs this, drugs that, drugs this...
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Christopher that, smack this...
0:22:12 > 0:22:15now it's like, "Kimberley got first yesterday?
0:22:15 > 0:22:18"Oh, it's the only good wean in the family."
0:22:42 > 0:22:44A month later, round at Libby's,
0:22:44 > 0:22:46James is showing no signs that he can change.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08James may be stuck in a rut,
0:23:08 > 0:23:11but with the help of the charity that have allowed him back,
0:23:11 > 0:23:15Steven has applied for a college course in joinery
0:23:15 > 0:23:18and he's managed to get his first ever interview.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21He's off to Kilmarnock for some last-minute coaching.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24A very common question, what are your weaknesses?
0:23:24 > 0:23:28If someone said to you, "What are your weaknesses?", what would you say?
0:23:28 > 0:23:32I wouldn't tell them what my weaknesses are, anyway.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34But everybody's got weaknesses...
0:23:34 > 0:23:38Aye, I'd say... I'm scared of spiders.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40What if you said,
0:23:40 > 0:23:43when other people don't do what they say they will,
0:23:43 > 0:23:45- you become frustrated?- Aye.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Over the past six months to nine months he's grew up an awful lot.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51He's not the wee silly boy he used to be,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54and from when he got into this last bit of bother,
0:23:54 > 0:23:57he's grew up, really grew up.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00A lot wiser in the head, and he takes what you say to him
0:24:00 > 0:24:03on board a lot more, instead of just shrugging it.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06He takes time to think before he acts now.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10The now, you've never taken your eyes off me because I'm not asking you questions.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13But the minute I ask you a question you look away, you look down...
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I know, I'm trying to think what to say.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Whereas if you prepare tonight... And it only takes an hour.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Cos, at the end of the day, this is your future.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22So an hour tonight for your future tomorrow.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- OK, Stephen?- See you later.
0:24:24 > 0:24:29I hope he'll be a lot wiser than his older brother, for a starter.
0:24:29 > 0:24:34And stay away from the drugs... and make something of his life.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Cos he's young enough and clever enough to do it,
0:24:37 > 0:24:39if he stays away from the drugs.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Which I think he will.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45I think he's seen too much of it with James and other one's round about us.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Because it's a day-to-day basis about here.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58After a week's wait,
0:24:58 > 0:25:03the mail finally arrives at Harry and Betty's, with the result of the gardening competition.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Oh, there we go.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11- The moment of truth, eh? - Quite excited for Harry.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- Same as last year.- Runner up? - Runner up.
0:25:20 > 0:25:25It'll be that same one that won it last year, I suppose, she seems to be awful good.
0:25:25 > 0:25:30But I'm pleased with that. She must be good, this woman!
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Eh? She must be.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33You're there to enjoy it.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37A lot of people are just in it for the prizes.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41I think, really, if you don't enjoy it and it's all stress,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44you're better no' daein' it.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48- It's the same as last year, it's something, isn't it?- Aye.
0:25:48 > 0:25:53Yet again, pipped to the post by the now 15-year champion, Mrs Ross.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58Harry has decided to size up the competition by attending the prize giving this year.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13A month after her mum cut contact with her, Candice has been
0:26:13 > 0:26:16trying to help Chris and has been lending him money.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20She's just given him the money she'd been saving for baby clothes.
0:26:21 > 0:26:26I think he is going to get aff it. I believe him.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29But... He better hurry up.
0:26:31 > 0:26:36Today, Chris gets his giro and Candice is expecting him
0:26:36 > 0:26:40to repay her, once he's cashed it in at the post office.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00But baby clothes aren't Chris's top priority.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10At Libby's, desperate for drugs,
0:27:10 > 0:27:13James has just stolen all his mum's money.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27My wordly goods, £2.11. Ha!
0:27:29 > 0:27:34Oh, Christ. I feel like running away and daein' it right this time.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04If he asked my mum, she would have given to him, she always does.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06I've just started building my stuff up and he's stole at my house.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08So that's how he doesn't even get in my door now.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11He's my brother, I love him, I'll always love him,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14I can say what I want about him, but naebody else can. He's a fucking arsehole, man.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Hope something bad happens to him out there, and I don't mean die.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Hope he gets battered fuck out of. He deserves it.
0:28:20 > 0:28:24With no money, Libby has to ask for a crisis loan to put food on the table.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33Chris is back from the bookies, with some bad news for Candice.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- I did.- No, you didn't. - Yeah, I did!- Talk shite.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40I swear on that unborn wean's life, I lost £150 in the bookies.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45Chris may be telling Candice that he's lost the cash,
0:28:45 > 0:28:47but in fact, he's actually won over £300.
0:28:50 > 0:28:55'He'll need to gie me the money to go down and buy stuff.'
0:28:55 > 0:29:00He'll be going out getting it somehow - I don't care how he gets it.
0:29:00 > 0:29:04I'm not kidding on. I will batter him, I swear to God.
0:29:13 > 0:29:19It's nine in the morning and Stephen is getting ready to impress at his big interview.
0:29:19 > 0:29:24- What are my strengths? Nae idea. - He's awful nervous this morning.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26And it's not like him.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30I think it's because he really wants to go through with it and get it.
0:29:30 > 0:29:35It's just meeting new folk and going in and cunts asking you questions and all that.
0:29:35 > 0:29:40If they were asking me, "Do you get on well with folk?" I don't, really.
0:29:40 > 0:29:45Obviously I'm going to lie and say I'm really good with folk, I'm a loving, caring young man.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49He went from a wee, silly boy to a young man.
0:29:49 > 0:29:54He thinks a lot more about his future. He's gonnae do all right.
0:29:54 > 0:29:55He's got the gift of the gab.
0:30:08 > 0:30:10That's me. Time to go.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13- Are you off?- Aye.- Good luck.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14See you later, Ma.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45Following two weeks' wait,
0:30:45 > 0:30:50the Crees finally have the survey of the community centre in their hands.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52They've raised over £4,000,
0:30:52 > 0:30:56and are hoping it might be enough to get the building open.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59Shocked. Really shocked.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03We thought inside, a lick of paint and everything.
0:31:03 > 0:31:09But when you see these prices! £880. That's to do the roof slating.
0:31:09 > 0:31:13Replace rainwater gutters and downpipes, £2,500.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17And to do the windows, £3,540.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21It's broken down so the most important things will get done first.
0:31:21 > 0:31:27But the first year we'd need £30,000. I feel it's a bit much.
0:31:27 > 0:31:32We'll need to get a meeting with the council and see if they can come and go with us,
0:31:32 > 0:31:34and then we'll need to take it from there.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44After stealing his mum's money,
0:31:44 > 0:31:47James hasn't been seen in the scheme for two weeks.
0:31:47 > 0:31:51He's ended up in a Glasgow hostel with the stolen cash spent,
0:31:51 > 0:31:54and with no drugs, he's suffering from serious withdrawals.
0:32:24 > 0:32:29Back at Libby's, she's just received James's letter.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32"Dear my wee ma...
0:32:32 > 0:32:36"it's your stupid fucked-up arse of a son here..."
0:32:39 > 0:32:42"..writing with a heavy heart.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44"Ma, I've done you real wrong again.
0:32:44 > 0:32:48"Ma, I'm so sorry. I wanted out of it.
0:32:48 > 0:32:54"Ma, please don't send the polis for me. This is my real chance.
0:32:54 > 0:32:59"Once I get my giro sorted I'll send you 20 to 25 every time
0:32:59 > 0:33:02"till I've paid back the £100. I promise.
0:33:02 > 0:33:07"My rent here is £32.50 per two weeks.
0:33:07 > 0:33:12"I get breakfast, dinner, a wee roll at night and a shower in my shitty room.
0:33:12 > 0:33:18"No bad, Ma, eh? So, so, sorry and I love you for ever and a day.
0:33:18 > 0:33:23"You're my best pal in the world. You know that. Bye for now, Ma.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27"Love and hugs and kisses, your son James.
0:33:27 > 0:33:31"Please write back ASAP, Ma. I love you.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33"Love you to bits."
0:33:36 > 0:33:40I think one thing, I'm angry wi' him.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43Then I think of him there on his own,
0:33:43 > 0:33:45I feel sorry for him, and I want to go get him, bring him home.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51I suppose he's a big boy now, I'll just need to learn to cope with it.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59Candice has decided that she doesn't want to have her baby
0:33:59 > 0:34:03in Chris' house, and, as she's due in five weeks, has managed to
0:34:03 > 0:34:08get her own flat at the top of a block five miles from the scheme.
0:34:08 > 0:34:14My face is all black with that gloss. This is going to be the nursery.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17Just need to tidy up the lines in here, then that's that done.
0:34:17 > 0:34:18And a second coat.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20I've not even started anything in the hall.
0:34:20 > 0:34:23That's the bathroom. That's a tip.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26I'm getting a new bathroom the morrow, but,
0:34:26 > 0:34:28so nae point doing that up.
0:34:28 > 0:34:34This is the living room. We've just put new sockets everywhere.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37Just need it wallpapered and carpeted, and furniture.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Just got new windows and all.
0:34:39 > 0:34:40Obviously, there's nothing here,
0:34:40 > 0:34:43cos I'm getting a new kitchen the morrow.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47It's all right. It's a bit high up, but I needed to take it.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50If I didn't take it, basically it'd be another couple of months
0:34:50 > 0:34:55until I got a viewing, so... it's better than nothing.
0:34:55 > 0:35:00Candice has realised she can't rely on Chris.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02'You don't care about anything else.'
0:35:02 > 0:35:05The minute he has got a tenner, that's where it goes to.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08Know what I mean? If he's sitting with nae electricity, it doesn't matter.
0:35:08 > 0:35:12And it pure changes you, and changes your voice and all that.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14It's pure horrible.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20I wouldn't bring myself down to that life.
0:35:22 > 0:35:25Kay and Candice have made up.
0:35:25 > 0:35:30- She phoned me and begged me to come and see her!- I didn't!
0:35:30 > 0:35:31- I honestly didn't.- She did!
0:35:31 > 0:35:36She started talking to me cos she wanted to come in for her dinner.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40And a hot shower! Kidding on. BOTH LAUGH
0:35:40 > 0:35:42Candice is still seeing Chris,
0:35:42 > 0:35:46though the rest of the family won't see him,
0:35:46 > 0:35:49and certainly haven't forgiven him.
0:35:49 > 0:35:54I don't like him, and I don't like why he stole my Wii.
0:35:54 > 0:35:59Because he was just taking drugs.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01And he still takes them.
0:36:01 > 0:36:06I don't think it's really good, but I think it's sad.
0:36:06 > 0:36:10She feels like she's sad,
0:36:10 > 0:36:12and she is sad.
0:36:12 > 0:36:17The future I want is just for Chrissy to get off it,
0:36:17 > 0:36:20and have the wean, and...
0:36:20 > 0:36:25keep my wee house going. Just have a life,
0:36:25 > 0:36:28instead of...
0:36:28 > 0:36:32scadging money off everybody for things for him.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35I don't think there will be a future with them, honestly.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37I think she will change once she's had the wean.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39Because he's got a habit.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42He'll not be doing that when my grandwean's here.
0:36:42 > 0:36:46Do you know what I mean? Nuh-uh.
0:36:46 > 0:36:47No.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Having just split up with a girlfriend,
0:36:54 > 0:36:58Kerry has been drinking, and has dropped round to her mum's.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02I'm a young, free and single searching motherfucker now!
0:37:02 > 0:37:04# I'm just living my life
0:37:04 > 0:37:06# There's nothing crazy about me! #
0:37:06 > 0:37:08Steven's not in the mood for a party,
0:37:08 > 0:37:11as his ideas of a fresh start at college may be over.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15He's due back in court tomorrow.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19He's going for a fucking lifer, the daftie. I'm kidding on - is he fuck.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22I'll be there, all the way, to support my wee fucking bro.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26- Till death do we fucking part, me and my bro, man.- Boy!
0:37:26 > 0:37:29- If he gets to jail, I'll just get myself into jail. Paranoid, son?- No.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33I would be a bit, man, so I would. I would be.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36I'm fuck all to do with it. I'm just here to support my bro.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40All day, every day, I'm there all the time for him. Any time.
0:37:50 > 0:37:55Harry and Betty are at the gardening awards to pick up second place,
0:37:55 > 0:37:58after coming runner-up again to the champion, Mrs Ross,
0:37:58 > 0:38:02who has won the trophy 15 times in a row.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05- I've never met her. - I don't know who she is. I haven't seen her yet.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07Is it 15 years she's won it for?
0:38:07 > 0:38:11Well, good on her.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13I've only been in it for three.
0:38:13 > 0:38:14And the next award,
0:38:14 > 0:38:20for runner-up to the best private garden in the central area, is to...
0:38:20 > 0:38:21APPLAUSE
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Thank you.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31APPLAUSE
0:38:33 > 0:38:38The next award for the best private garden in the central area
0:38:38 > 0:38:41goes to Mrs Ross.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44APPLAUSE
0:38:46 > 0:38:49Harry can finally size up the competition in person.
0:38:51 > 0:38:54'You can only get better, you'll no get worse.'
0:38:54 > 0:38:59That's a certainty. I'll be knocking at the door next year.
0:39:13 > 0:39:18It's the first day of Steven's court case for allegedly breaking in to the local post office
0:39:18 > 0:39:20and he's beginning to get worried.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25I think it's just cos that's where cunts get sent to the jail,
0:39:25 > 0:39:29know what I mean? Not me... But cos, like, it's a court,
0:39:29 > 0:39:32you're not meant to be happy about it when you're in it, so...
0:39:32 > 0:39:37They try to make it as uncomfortable as possible for you in there.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40- Need to go to the shops for fags, Mam.- I know, son, I know.
0:39:42 > 0:39:47Steven is facing a year in prison and Libby now fears the worst.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50In the past four year, I've turned to him for everything.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52He's been my rock.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55He puts on such a brave face.
0:39:56 > 0:40:01I feel sick walking in, so God only knows how he feels.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03I'm only there just to be there for him.
0:40:05 > 0:40:09Libby's efforts to keep her family together are being tested again.
0:40:17 > 0:40:22The final estimate to re-open the old community centre is over £50,000 -
0:40:22 > 0:40:25far more than the residents' committee have raised.
0:40:25 > 0:40:29They have a plan, though, and have earmarked a local shop
0:40:29 > 0:40:32which is disused but has potential.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34This is an old shop.
0:40:34 > 0:40:38It used to be a Spar shop and it belongs to Ali next door
0:40:38 > 0:40:40and we're thinking of leasing it from him.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43I think this is the answer, aye.
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Well, if we're not going to get the Ardbeg Centre,
0:40:46 > 0:40:51it's going to cost a fortune... Then, aye, this is the answer.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54I think this has been a storeroom or something
0:40:54 > 0:40:57and there's been a kitchen and a toilet through this way.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00We need to get a couple of quotes
0:41:00 > 0:41:03to see how much it's going to cost to get the full place done
0:41:03 > 0:41:06and the committee and some of the other folks
0:41:06 > 0:41:10are going to be willing to come in and help whoever comes in to dae it.
0:41:10 > 0:41:11But it's not a bad size.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14That's what the shop looks like just now
0:41:14 > 0:41:18and that's what it's going to, hopefully, look like.
0:41:18 > 0:41:22The kitchen's going to come from the back to nearer the front,
0:41:22 > 0:41:25it's more hygienic, and we're going to have three toilets,
0:41:25 > 0:41:28a gents, a ladies and a disabled.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32Looking at it the now you think, "Woah, never,"
0:41:32 > 0:41:36but once all this rubbish is cleared out, we'll get there.
0:41:36 > 0:41:38Despite setbacks,
0:41:38 > 0:41:41the Crees are still raising money
0:41:41 > 0:41:44and determined to achieve their goal.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47Hopefully we'll get the funding to get it up and going.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50We're not giving up. Nope.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53We will survive...
0:41:55 > 0:41:57..somehow.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02Back at court, there are smiles all round.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04With the Timbys on.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07It's been a year o'worry right off my shoulders.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09I feel about 16 now.
0:42:09 > 0:42:14The CCTV from the post office break-in doesn't show Steven after all.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17- It's no even me.- What did I say?
0:42:17 > 0:42:20It's a wee dude with long hair and al' that.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23- A wee guy that size. - Aye. Well wee-er than me, man.
0:42:23 > 0:42:27I've been that size, not this size, man.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Libby is over the moon.
0:42:30 > 0:42:34There's also been a surprise round at Gordon and Annie's,
0:42:34 > 0:42:37as their son David has been in the Sun newspaper.
0:43:04 > 0:43:08David and Kimberley are determined to make something of their lives.
0:43:26 > 0:43:29# J-U-N-K
0:43:29 > 0:43:31# Junkie Chris...
0:43:31 > 0:43:33# Catch you later I'm going to the shop. #
0:43:40 > 0:43:44Back at Libby's, there's been an unexpected twist.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46James has come home.
0:44:26 > 0:44:28Libby has taken James back,
0:44:28 > 0:44:32but knows that good intentions have a habit of slipping away.
0:44:32 > 0:44:37Libby's not the only parent trying to keep drugs from destroying their family.
0:44:37 > 0:44:42Gordon and Annie have tried everything they can to help Chris.
0:44:42 > 0:44:44I think the future for Chris is...
0:44:44 > 0:44:47to be in and out of detox units all the time.
0:44:47 > 0:44:52But I think he'll keep going back to it. It just the way it seems to me.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55All he cares about is his next tenner, he's chasing it all day long,
0:44:55 > 0:44:59and he's a different person altogether.
0:45:01 > 0:45:04Chris is no longer denying to his family
0:45:04 > 0:45:07that he's taking heroin, but he thinks he's OK.
0:45:07 > 0:45:13Fuck them, man. They can say what they want, know what I mean?
0:45:13 > 0:45:14Doesn't bother me.
0:45:14 > 0:45:18They're leaving somebody else alone, talking about me.
0:45:18 > 0:45:24Gordon knows how hard an addiction can be to conquer.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26I need the help for drink
0:45:26 > 0:45:30and you've got to want help to get help.
0:45:32 > 0:45:36You're the one that can only do it. I don't know about Christopher's future.
0:45:36 > 0:45:40I don't see him having a future if he keeps taking that stuff.
0:45:40 > 0:45:45The amount he's taking - he's just going to go down the hill rapidly and rapidly and rapidly.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48And there's no much I can dae about it.
0:45:50 > 0:45:54So his future... I don't think he's got a future the now.
0:45:56 > 0:46:00As I've said and I'll say it again, he needs to want to help himself.
0:46:06 > 0:46:09A month later, Libby's efforts to keep Steven
0:46:09 > 0:46:13on the straight and narrow are finally paying off,
0:46:13 > 0:46:14as he has a place at college.
0:46:14 > 0:46:18- We're so proud of him.- I'm fucking pure proud of him, man.
0:46:18 > 0:46:22Cos he's the only one out of us all that's done something,
0:46:22 > 0:46:25then trying to do something decent with his life at his age, 16.
0:46:31 > 0:46:34I feel great knowing he's doing something with his life,
0:46:34 > 0:46:38he's turning his life around and he's going to have a good go at it. He'll have a good go at it.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41The best McMurray ever that boy's going to be, man.
0:46:41 > 0:46:44He's going to put all the McMurrays to shame, every single one.
0:46:44 > 0:46:48I can't wait for it to start because then at least I'll have something to do.
0:46:48 > 0:46:53The guy says there was hundreds of folk. I just went hoping for the best, man.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55Obviously this is the best it could have turned out.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58So far, this is my biggest achievement.
0:46:58 > 0:47:01That's good, so it is.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03Brilliant. I didn't see it. Can I see it?
0:47:05 > 0:47:07Good show, man.
0:47:13 > 0:47:15'I made the first step
0:47:15 > 0:47:17'and hopefully that'll get me on my way.'
0:47:18 > 0:47:20I'm saying "hopefully".
0:47:24 > 0:47:26James and his cousin Brian
0:47:26 > 0:47:29have slipped back to using heroin
0:47:29 > 0:47:32after yet another failed attempt to go clean.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36I just went and got a pair there, aye.
0:47:36 > 0:47:41It's just boredom, man, just for a charge. Just boredom.
0:47:41 > 0:47:45- I'll try and make this just a one-off.- Do you have them in your mouth? You did.
0:47:45 > 0:47:50- This is just a one-off. - So it is. Tell lies.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53- You're a junky bastard.- Aye. - I'm only kidding.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03Later in the year,
0:48:03 > 0:48:05Steven's grant money was late arriving
0:48:05 > 0:48:07and he decided not to take up his place at college.
0:48:10 > 0:48:14James and his sister Kerry were accused of stealing from a neighbour,
0:48:14 > 0:48:16and Libby was forced to leave the scheme for good.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20On 17th April,
0:48:20 > 0:48:24the number of people living on the scheme increased by one
0:48:24 > 0:48:28as Candice successfully gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
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