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This programme contains very strong language

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One large scheme in northwest Kilmarnock

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is home to over 1,000 families.

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A few of those families agreed to be filmed over a year.

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The Scheme follows six of the most colourful,

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and sometimes chaotic, households, charting the ups...

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..and downs of life.

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"So, so, sorry, and I'll love you forever and a day."

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The series follows people fighting for the scheme.

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That amount of money, you're just going to be hitting your heid aff the wall.

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And fighting just to keep their families from falling apart.

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He could die or anything in my house, then we all get roped into a murder.

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No, it's not happening.

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Header.

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Previously on The Scheme,

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former hell-raisers Gordon and Annie were desperate

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to keep their family on the straight and narrow.

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Don't start shouting at me, you're not staying out.

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Aye, awright.

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Their eldest son Brian served a spell in jail

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after a long list of charges finally caught up with him.

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They gied him the full whack.

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That man had says he called him all the Bin Laden bastards and all that.

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If that wasn't bad enough, they heard rumours

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that their youngest son, 20-year-old Chris, was taking heroin.

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We've just telt him that we want to help him,

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just to admit the truth that he is taking it.

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Chris, though, is denying everything.

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Chris had also got his 16-year-old girlfriend Candice pregnant.

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We were talking about having a wean and that, then it just happened.

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Candice's mum, Kay,

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was dead against Candice having a baby with Chris.

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What are you going to do if you've got a tenner, right,

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and you're needing nappies and milk, and Chrissy needs a bag of smack? Who's going to win?

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Candice was determined to stay with Chris

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and convinced he would be there for her.

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He wants to come aff it, but every...

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He just fucks it up, every time.

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Two months on, Chris has managed to get a house from a charity

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that supports the homeless, and Candice has moved in with him.

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Chris is still denying taking heroin.

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-So, definitely you're not using?

-No.

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What's the time, Candice?

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Five to two.

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Chris may be denying things,

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but Candice is still worrying about what she's seeing

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and whether he will be there for her during the pregnancy.

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Chris's parents, Gordon and Annie,

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are devastated about the changes they're seeing in Chris.

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He's...fucked up with that junk.

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Tried my best wi' him, but just nae help for him.

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Annie is on the phone to Candice's mum, Kay,

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as Annie thinks she has some information

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about a Wii that was stolen from Kay.

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Kay's wee lassie's Wii got stolen out her house,

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and it's supposed to be a certain boy's got it, bought it for £60.

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I was telling her a Wii got selt two weeks ago,

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that's when the wean's got stolen out the house,

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and I telt her the boy's name who selt it and who he selt it to,

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because, I've got a feeling it could be that, it could be the wean's.

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Annie's call means Kay now knows the person in the scheme

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who has bought her daughter Kendal's stolen Wii,

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and she already knows his number.

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Kendal's Wii and Wii Fit

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-and her games and all that got stolen two weeks ago.

-Shh.

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RINGING TONE

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-Who's that?

-'Hello?'

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Hello.

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First it was a laptop, two phones, the wean's Nintendo DS,

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and now her Wii and Wii Fit and all that, so I'm getting him charged.

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The new owner of the Wii is saying that he bought it from Chris.

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It was Chrissy that stole the wean's Wii.

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Kay thinks Candice must have helped Chris steal the Wii,

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and is furious with her.

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Last time on The Scheme,

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one family, the Crees, were leading the fight

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to re-open the old community centre, which their mum and dad had started

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and their family had been running as volunteers for two generations.

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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 had a huge emotional attachment to the centre,

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and were fund-raising round the clock to get the doors open.

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But after their mum got diagnosed with cancer and then passed away,

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it looked as if their loss might stop them in their tracks.

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I just thought, she was my mam, but I feel she was a special friend.

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But as their mum had wanted, the family rallied together again.

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So we're more determined now for the centre,

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cos that's what my mum wanted.

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They had a crucial meeting with two councillors, where tempers flared.

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SHOUTING

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They were frustrated about several unexpected costs

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eating into their hard-earned funds.

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I asked you one thing!

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We're doing this fund-raising and you feel as if you're just hitting your heid aff a wall.

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Including having to pay for a survey on the building

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before they took it on.

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

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A month on, with the survey now booked in and paid for,

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Anne and Janet Cree decide to check out the state

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of the old community centre for themselves.

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See there's a big crack right up the middle of the building

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going right up to the roof.

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I actually seen another one and all round here.

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See that bit there, going right down.

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Just need to wait until the surveyor comes and see what he says about it.

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The council have offered the rent for the old community centre for just £1,

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but the residents' committee will have to prove

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that they can pay for any maintenance and repairs

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before they get the keys, including fixing any cracks.

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There's another big bit, Janet.

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Twa great big cracks right up to the window ledge and all,

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actually right through the window ledge.

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Hopefully it's no' anything serious, but if it is, it'll cost,

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really cost to get it done.

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Last time on The Scheme,

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Libby was desperate for her eldest son James to kick his heroin habit.

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

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With the family in turmoil, her second son, 15-year-old Steven,

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had gone off the rails, and had been excluded,

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first from mainstream school, and then a charity-run support unit.

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He'd also picked up a charge

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for allegedly breaking into the local post office.

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Steven, though, had realised he didn't want

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to follow his brother into a future of crime and drugs,

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and was determined to turn his life around.

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I don't want to be having to go to court, not at this age anyway,

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not for things like that, it's just my daftness.

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Today is the first part of the court hearing,

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and Steven could get locked up for a year.

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His sister Kerry is there to lend her support,

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as she has done several jail sentences herself.

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I'm a bit nervous, but it should be all right, man.

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He's my wee brother, so hopefully he should be all right.

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It's his trial we're more worrying about.

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Obviously we're still worrying today, cos it's my wee brother at court.

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I've been through it and I know what it's like.

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He'll probably be a bit paranoid, but he should be all right. Hopefully, anyway.

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A wee bit nervous, just because I'm going in to see the judge and that.

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Me and the judge are best pals!

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At Chris's house, he is denying stealing the Wii from Kay,

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and although Candice is expecting,

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her Mum is refusing to have any more contact with her.

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And he was with me all weekend and all.

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Told him he better get aff it soon,

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or I'm not going to be with him any more.

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It's just, I cannae take any more of it.

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It's pure stressing me out,

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cos he goes in bad moods and that, if he cannae get any,

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and it's me that gets it, but...

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He better get aff it soon.

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Candice is expecting a little girl in three months' time.

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Back at court, Steven's case is still going on, and centred

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around the CCTV from the post office on the night of the break-in.

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They just went through the statements from the lawyer

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and telt us more or less what might happen,

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but they're not releasing the CCTV.

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Just need to wait and see if the judge will push it on for us,

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cos there's not much we can do till we get it.

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Steven's court case is finally adjourned so that his defence team

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have a chance to assess the CCTV evidence for themselves.

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Last time on The Scheme,

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compulsive cleaner Betty...

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

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-..and garden-mad Harry...

-I like to see everything flourishing,

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

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..entered the Central East Ayrshire Gardening Competition.

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I'm excited for Harry.

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

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Today's the big day, and the judges are expected at any minute.

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They'll probably have a clipboard or something with them.

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Marks for this and marks for that, whatever.

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But they know what they're talking about,

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because they know all the different flowers,

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and the begonias and everything, cos one of them is a begonia man,

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he likes begonias, far as I know.

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I see somebody driving up here.

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I better let Harry out, because he's the man.

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Put that fag away.

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After week's of planting, crimping and preening,

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the moment of truth has arrived for Harry.

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Hello, how you keeping?

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The first thing we look for is quality of the plant material,

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It doesn't matter if it's flowers, vegetables or grass,

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we must have the quality.

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And then, after that, it's actually the setup,

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the design, and also the blending-in of colour, which is good.

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Last year, Harry came runner-up in the competition,

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to a lady whose garden has already won 14 years in a row.

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See Betty, she's desperate to win.

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She's no' like me, Betty, Betty likes to be number one.

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She was delighted last year when I got runner-up.

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I don't know what she'll be like this year if I win it.

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Initially, the judges seem impressed,

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however, one judge has a few improvements regarding Harry's begonias.

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It's what they call laurentia, or isotoma, as it's called now,

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and it would be nice and it's not so overpowering as this,

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and you could put that actually through that.

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You can't see your begonia there.

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But I'm impressed with that, that is actually nice

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blend of colour.

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-Well done.

-Thank you.

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Is this you on a Saturday night here?

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After half an hour, the judging is over.

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I think it went quite well.

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But as he says, there are a lot of gardens to cover.

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We're under the private garden section.

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So, here's hoping.

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But I think, all in all, they were pleased with it.

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They says it was very, very good,

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and he was taking into consideration the weather conditions up here.

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-But then again, Harry enjoys it.

-That's it.

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It's nothing to do with prizes.

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Prizes is a wee...

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Last time on The Scheme,

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James was trying to get off heroin with Libby buying him methadone

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every day from local dealers to try and help his cravings.

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I think about it all the time.

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That should pass, hopefully.

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James was struggling to stay clean of heroin but doing well,

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and looked as if he might have finally kicked his habit.

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He's doing all right.

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Taking it a day at a time.

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A month later, though, he's back from town

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and has just got away from the police.

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You cannae take them anywhere.

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He seems fed up with it all and all.

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That's all he's seen most of his adult life.

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Drugs.

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DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

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Surveyors have arrived to assess the community centre.

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The question is how bad have the cracks got,

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and are there even more problems lurking?

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The Ardbeg Centre, 13 Ardbeg Avenue, date of inspection.

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Nothing happens in the scheme without people knowing about it,

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and after a few minutes the Crees turn up

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to check on the surveyors' progress.

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Hiya.

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I only had a cursory walk round, but on first viewing there's nothing...

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-It's not as if the walls are falling down...

-No, there's a few cracks, but...

-Bit of plaster.

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I think it's going to be a lot more money need spent on it than that, in fairness.

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The windows aren't in the best of order, either.

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It's quite expensive to buy these windows.

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It is a sizeable document we're going to give you, not like two pages.

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The guy's saying there will be money to be spent, we all knew that,

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and if the weans would leave the...place alone -

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going to swear there but I thought I'd better not -

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then... I don't know, we'll just need to wait and see what happens.

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The Crees are desperate to re-open the centre for the community.

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That is, if they can afford any repairs that the survey throws up.

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Even though he's been excluded from mainstream school,

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Libby is still desperate to get her youngest son Steven

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back into some sort of education, and has come in to the charity

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that asked him to take time out for bad behaviour

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to see if they will take him back onto their education programme.

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Steven was involved in a bit of homophobic bullying.

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Steven decided that it would be OK to give him some abuse.

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How come it's always me, but?

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There was other folk doing it and all, nae cunt else got pulled to the side.

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-Here!

-Well, man, nae wonder.

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We have to get to a point where we can get you back in,

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-and to support you moving on, how do we do that?

-Aye.

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-You have to want to come in, Steven...

-I do.

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And you have to want to be in here buying into the programme.

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I know, and we've been here before and you sit there and you "yes, no..."

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Well, nae wonder, man.

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We're here to support you, right?

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And the behaviour you did that day is not acceptable,

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and we can't have you in here when you do that.

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How did it get to the point that day

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where it was like totally, really aggressive?

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I think at that point Steven was starting to show off

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in front of other young people, that's what it was.

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Probably, aye.

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That what it sounds like.

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Is there anything you want to say?

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No.

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No?

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Back at the house, James has had a close call after overdosing.

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His cousin Brian saved his life by calling in paramedics.

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He was just lying there on the bed with his eyes shut,

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not moving, not talking, I was shouting on him, no reply,

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and I knew straightaway there was something wrong with that, know what I mean?

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The paramedics have brought James round this time.

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And Steven has charmed his way to another chance on the course.

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I'm back in, sorted,

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instead of sitting on my arse all day in the house.

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You've got to listen to these folk,

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because that's what rules and regulations are for.

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Steven has another chance,

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but James has blown his opportunity to come clean,

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and is back, heavily addicted.

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Fuckin' idiot, man.

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I could fuckin' kick myself, so I could.

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But it's done now, I cannae fuckin' change it.

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Cannae turn the clock back.

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But I can only try and make things better.

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I was fuckin' that determined to do it, too,

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and then just... I don't know, man, I just fucked up.

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After months looking for a job,

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Gordon is now working in a local food processing plant.

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Aye, it's a job, obviously.

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Gordon has been promoted to supervisor

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and has managed to get his 21-year-old son, David, on to the books.

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Well, where's the supervisor?

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Just jealousy with him.

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Gordon has got David a job, and his daughter,

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16-year-old Kimberley, has also started at the local hairdressers.

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20-year-old Chris may be about to become a dad,

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but his behaviour is getting the whole family down.

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It's all you hear in this house.

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Drugs this, drugs that, drugs this...

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Christopher that, smack this...

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now it's like, "Kimberley got first yesterday?

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"Oh, it's the only good wean in the family."

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A month later, round at Libby's,

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James is showing no signs that he can change.

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James may be stuck in a rut,

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but with the help of the charity that have allowed him back,

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Steven has applied for a college course in joinery

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and he's managed to get his first ever interview.

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He's off to Kilmarnock for some last-minute coaching.

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A very common question, what are your weaknesses?

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If someone said to you, "What are your weaknesses?", what would you say?

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I wouldn't tell them what my weaknesses are, anyway.

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But everybody's got weaknesses...

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Aye, I'd say... I'm scared of spiders.

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What if you said,

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when other people don't do what they say they will,

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-you become frustrated?

-Aye.

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Over the past six months to nine months he's grew up an awful lot.

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He's not the wee silly boy he used to be,

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and from when he got into this last bit of bother,

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he's grew up, really grew up.

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A lot wiser in the head, and he takes what you say to him

0:23:570:24:00

on board a lot more, instead of just shrugging it.

0:24:000:24:03

He takes time to think before he acts now.

0:24:030:24:06

The now, you've never taken your eyes off me because I'm not asking you questions.

0:24:060:24:10

But the minute I ask you a question you look away, you look down...

0:24:100:24:13

I know, I'm trying to think what to say.

0:24:130:24:15

Whereas if you prepare tonight... And it only takes an hour.

0:24:150:24:18

Cos, at the end of the day, this is your future.

0:24:180:24:20

So an hour tonight for your future tomorrow.

0:24:200:24:22

-OK, Stephen?

-See you later.

0:24:220:24:24

I hope he'll be a lot wiser than his older brother, for a starter.

0:24:240:24:29

And stay away from the drugs... and make something of his life.

0:24:290:24:34

Cos he's young enough and clever enough to do it,

0:24:340:24:37

if he stays away from the drugs.

0:24:370:24:39

Which I think he will.

0:24:390:24:40

I think he's seen too much of it with James and other one's round about us.

0:24:400:24:45

Because it's a day-to-day basis about here.

0:24:460:24:48

After a week's wait,

0:24:570:24:58

the mail finally arrives at Harry and Betty's, with the result of the gardening competition.

0:24:580:25:03

Oh, there we go.

0:25:030:25:05

-The moment of truth, eh?

-Quite excited for Harry.

0:25:070:25:11

-Same as last year.

-Runner up?

-Runner up.

0:25:170:25:20

It'll be that same one that won it last year, I suppose, she seems to be awful good.

0:25:200:25:25

But I'm pleased with that. She must be good, this woman!

0:25:250:25:30

Eh? She must be.

0:25:300:25:31

You're there to enjoy it.

0:25:310:25:33

A lot of people are just in it for the prizes.

0:25:330:25:37

I think, really, if you don't enjoy it and it's all stress,

0:25:370:25:41

you're better no' daein' it.

0:25:410:25:44

-It's the same as last year, it's something, isn't it?

-Aye.

0:25:440:25:48

Yet again, pipped to the post by the now 15-year champion, Mrs Ross.

0:25:480:25:53

Harry has decided to size up the competition by attending the prize giving this year.

0:25:530:25:58

A month after her mum cut contact with her, Candice has been

0:26:090:26:13

trying to help Chris and has been lending him money.

0:26:130:26:16

She's just given him the money she'd been saving for baby clothes.

0:26:160:26:20

I think he is going to get aff it. I believe him.

0:26:210:26:26

But... He better hurry up.

0:26:260:26:29

Today, Chris gets his giro and Candice is expecting him

0:26:310:26:36

to repay her, once he's cashed it in at the post office.

0:26:360:26:40

But baby clothes aren't Chris's top priority.

0:26:570:27:00

At Libby's, desperate for drugs,

0:27:080:27:10

James has just stolen all his mum's money.

0:27:100:27:13

My wordly goods, £2.11. Ha!

0:27:240:27:27

Oh, Christ. I feel like running away and daein' it right this time.

0:27:290:27:34

If he asked my mum, she would have given to him, she always does.

0:28:000:28:04

I've just started building my stuff up and he's stole at my house.

0:28:040:28:06

So that's how he doesn't even get in my door now.

0:28:060:28:08

He's my brother, I love him, I'll always love him,

0:28:080:28:11

I can say what I want about him, but naebody else can. He's a fucking arsehole, man.

0:28:110:28:14

Hope something bad happens to him out there, and I don't mean die.

0:28:140:28:16

Hope he gets battered fuck out of. He deserves it.

0:28:160:28:18

With no money, Libby has to ask for a crisis loan to put food on the table.

0:28:200:28:24

Chris is back from the bookies, with some bad news for Candice.

0:28:290:28:33

-I did.

-No, you didn't.

-Yeah, I did!

-Talk shite.

0:28:330:28:36

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

0:28:360:28:40

Chris may be telling Candice that he's lost the cash,

0:28:420:28:45

but in fact, he's actually won over £300.

0:28:450:28:47

'He'll need to gie me the money to go down and buy stuff.'

0:28:500:28:55

He'll be going out getting it somehow - I don't care how he gets it.

0:28:550:29:00

I'm not kidding on. I will batter him, I swear to God.

0:29:000:29:04

It's nine in the morning and Stephen is getting ready to impress at his big interview.

0:29:130:29:19

-What are my strengths? Nae idea.

-He's awful nervous this morning.

0:29:190:29:24

And it's not like him.

0:29:240:29:26

I think it's because he really wants to go through with it and get it.

0:29:260:29:30

It's just meeting new folk and going in and cunts asking you questions and all that.

0:29:300:29:35

If they were asking me, "Do you get on well with folk?" I don't, really.

0:29:350:29:40

Obviously I'm going to lie and say I'm really good with folk, I'm a loving, caring young man.

0:29:400:29:45

He went from a wee, silly boy to a young man.

0:29:450:29:49

He thinks a lot more about his future. He's gonnae do all right.

0:29:490:29:54

He's got the gift of the gab.

0:29:540:29:55

That's me. Time to go.

0:30:080:30:10

-Are you off?

-Aye.

-Good luck.

0:30:100:30:13

See you later, Ma.

0:30:130:30:14

Following two weeks' wait,

0:30:420:30:45

the Crees finally have the survey of the community centre in their hands.

0:30:450:30:50

They've raised over £4,000,

0:30:500:30:52

and are hoping it might be enough to get the building open.

0:30:520:30:56

Shocked. Really shocked.

0:30:560:30:59

We thought inside, a lick of paint and everything.

0:30:590:31:03

But when you see these prices! £880. That's to do the roof slating.

0:31:030:31:09

Replace rainwater gutters and downpipes, £2,500.

0:31:090:31:13

And to do the windows, £3,540.

0:31:130:31:17

It's broken down so the most important things will get done first.

0:31:170:31:21

But the first year we'd need £30,000. I feel it's a bit much.

0:31:210:31:27

We'll need to get a meeting with the council and see if they can come and go with us,

0:31:270:31:32

and then we'll need to take it from there.

0:31:320:31:34

After stealing his mum's money,

0:31:420:31:44

James hasn't been seen in the scheme for two weeks.

0:31:440:31:47

He's ended up in a Glasgow hostel with the stolen cash spent,

0:31:470:31:51

and with no drugs, he's suffering from serious withdrawals.

0:31:510:31:54

Back at Libby's, she's just received James's letter.

0:32:240:32:29

"Dear my wee ma...

0:32:290:32:32

"it's your stupid fucked-up arse of a son here..."

0:32:320:32:36

"..writing with a heavy heart.

0:32:390:32:42

"Ma, I've done you real wrong again.

0:32:420:32:44

"Ma, I'm so sorry. I wanted out of it.

0:32:440:32:48

"Ma, please don't send the polis for me. This is my real chance.

0:32:480:32:54

"Once I get my giro sorted I'll send you 20 to 25 every time

0:32:540:32:59

"till I've paid back the £100. I promise.

0:32:590:33:02

"My rent here is £32.50 per two weeks.

0:33:020:33:07

"I get breakfast, dinner, a wee roll at night and a shower in my shitty room.

0:33:070:33:12

"No bad, Ma, eh? So, so, sorry and I love you for ever and a day.

0:33:120:33:18

"You're my best pal in the world. You know that. Bye for now, Ma.

0:33:180:33:23

"Love and hugs and kisses, your son James.

0:33:230:33:27

"Please write back ASAP, Ma. I love you.

0:33:270:33:31

"Love you to bits."

0:33:310:33:33

I think one thing, I'm angry wi' him.

0:33:360:33:40

Then I think of him there on his own,

0:33:400:33:43

I feel sorry for him, and I want to go get him, bring him home.

0:33:430:33:45

I suppose he's a big boy now, I'll just need to learn to cope with it.

0:33:480:33:51

Candice has decided that she doesn't want to have her baby

0:33:560:33:59

in Chris' house, and, as she's due in five weeks, has managed to

0:33:590:34:03

get her own flat at the top of a block five miles from the scheme.

0:34:030:34:08

My face is all black with that gloss. This is going to be the nursery.

0:34:080:34:14

Just need to tidy up the lines in here, then that's that done.

0:34:140:34:17

And a second coat.

0:34:170:34:18

I've not even started anything in the hall.

0:34:180:34:20

That's the bathroom. That's a tip.

0:34:200:34:23

I'm getting a new bathroom the morrow, but,

0:34:230:34:26

so nae point doing that up.

0:34:260:34:28

This is the living room. We've just put new sockets everywhere.

0:34:280:34:34

Just need it wallpapered and carpeted, and furniture.

0:34:340:34:37

Just got new windows and all.

0:34:370:34:39

Obviously, there's nothing here,

0:34:390:34:40

cos I'm getting a new kitchen the morrow.

0:34:400:34:43

It's all right. It's a bit high up, but I needed to take it.

0:34:430:34:47

If I didn't take it, basically it'd be another couple of months

0:34:470:34:50

until I got a viewing, so... it's better than nothing.

0:34:500:34:55

Candice has realised she can't rely on Chris.

0:34:550:35:00

'You don't care about anything else.'

0:35:000:35:02

The minute he has got a tenner, that's where it goes to.

0:35:020:35:05

Know what I mean? If he's sitting with nae electricity, it doesn't matter.

0:35:050:35:08

And it pure changes you, and changes your voice and all that.

0:35:080:35:12

It's pure horrible.

0:35:120:35:14

I wouldn't bring myself down to that life.

0:35:160:35:20

Kay and Candice have made up.

0:35:220:35:25

-She phoned me and begged me to come and see her!

-I didn't!

0:35:250:35:30

-I honestly didn't.

-She did!

0:35:300:35:31

She started talking to me cos she wanted to come in for her dinner.

0:35:310:35:36

And a hot shower! Kidding on. BOTH LAUGH

0:35:360:35:40

Candice is still seeing Chris,

0:35:400:35:42

though the rest of the family won't see him,

0:35:420:35:46

and certainly haven't forgiven him.

0:35:460:35:49

I don't like him, and I don't like why he stole my Wii.

0:35:490:35:54

Because he was just taking drugs.

0:35:540:35:59

And he still takes them.

0:35:590:36:01

I don't think it's really good, but I think it's sad.

0:36:010:36:06

She feels like she's sad,

0:36:060:36:10

and she is sad.

0:36:100:36:12

The future I want is just for Chrissy to get off it,

0:36:120:36:17

and have the wean, and...

0:36:170:36:20

keep my wee house going. Just have a life,

0:36:200:36:25

instead of...

0:36:250:36:28

scadging money off everybody for things for him.

0:36:280:36:32

I don't think there will be a future with them, honestly.

0:36:320:36:35

I think she will change once she's had the wean.

0:36:350:36:37

Because he's got a habit.

0:36:370:36:39

He'll not be doing that when my grandwean's here.

0:36:390:36:42

Do you know what I mean? Nuh-uh.

0:36:420:36:46

No.

0:36:460:36:47

Having just split up with a girlfriend,

0:36:510:36:54

Kerry has been drinking, and has dropped round to her mum's.

0:36:540:36:58

I'm a young, free and single searching motherfucker now!

0:36:580:37:02

# I'm just living my life

0:37:020:37:04

# There's nothing crazy about me! #

0:37:040:37:06

Steven's not in the mood for a party,

0:37:060:37:08

as his ideas of a fresh start at college may be over.

0:37:080:37:11

He's due back in court tomorrow.

0:37:130:37:15

He's going for a fucking lifer, the daftie. I'm kidding on - is he fuck.

0:37:150:37:19

I'll be there, all the way, to support my wee fucking bro.

0:37:190:37:22

-Till death do we fucking part, me and my bro, man.

-Boy!

0:37:220:37:26

-If he gets to jail, I'll just get myself into jail. Paranoid, son?

-No.

0:37:260:37:29

I would be a bit, man, so I would. I would be.

0:37:290:37:33

I'm fuck all to do with it. I'm just here to support my bro.

0:37:330:37:36

All day, every day, I'm there all the time for him. Any time.

0:37:360:37:40

Harry and Betty are at the gardening awards to pick up second place,

0:37:500:37:55

after coming runner-up again to the champion, Mrs Ross,

0:37:550:37:58

who has won the trophy 15 times in a row.

0:37:580:38:02

-I've never met her.

-I don't know who she is. I haven't seen her yet.

0:38:020:38:05

Is it 15 years she's won it for?

0:38:050:38:07

Well, good on her.

0:38:070:38:11

I've only been in it for three.

0:38:110:38:13

And the next award,

0:38:130:38:14

for runner-up to the best private garden in the central area, is to...

0:38:140:38:20

APPLAUSE

0:38:200:38:21

Thank you.

0:38:270:38:29

APPLAUSE

0:38:290:38:31

The next award for the best private garden in the central area

0:38:330:38:38

goes to Mrs Ross.

0:38:380:38:41

APPLAUSE

0:38:410:38:44

Harry can finally size up the competition in person.

0:38:460:38:49

'You can only get better, you'll no get worse.'

0:38:510:38:54

That's a certainty. I'll be knocking at the door next year.

0:38:540:38:59

It's the first day of Steven's court case for allegedly breaking in to the local post office

0:39:130:39:18

and he's beginning to get worried.

0:39:180:39:20

I think it's just cos that's where cunts get sent to the jail,

0:39:220:39:25

know what I mean? Not me... But cos, like, it's a court,

0:39:250:39:29

you're not meant to be happy about it when you're in it, so...

0:39:290:39:32

They try to make it as uncomfortable as possible for you in there.

0:39:320:39:37

-Need to go to the shops for fags, Mam.

-I know, son, I know.

0:39:370:39:40

Steven is facing a year in prison and Libby now fears the worst.

0:39:420:39:47

In the past four year, I've turned to him for everything.

0:39:470:39:50

He's been my rock.

0:39:500:39:52

He puts on such a brave face.

0:39:520:39:55

I feel sick walking in, so God only knows how he feels.

0:39:560:40:01

I'm only there just to be there for him.

0:40:010:40:03

Libby's efforts to keep her family together are being tested again.

0:40:050:40:09

The final estimate to re-open the old community centre is over £50,000 -

0:40:170:40:22

far more than the residents' committee have raised.

0:40:220:40:25

They have a plan, though, and have earmarked a local shop

0:40:250:40:29

which is disused but has potential.

0:40:290:40:32

This is an old shop.

0:40:320:40:34

It used to be a Spar shop and it belongs to Ali next door

0:40:340:40:38

and we're thinking of leasing it from him.

0:40:380:40:40

I think this is the answer, aye.

0:40:400:40:43

Well, if we're not going to get the Ardbeg Centre,

0:40:430:40:46

it's going to cost a fortune... Then, aye, this is the answer.

0:40:460:40:51

I think this has been a storeroom or something

0:40:510:40:54

and there's been a kitchen and a toilet through this way.

0:40:540:40:57

We need to get a couple of quotes

0:40:570:41:00

to see how much it's going to cost to get the full place done

0:41:000:41:03

and the committee and some of the other folks

0:41:030:41:06

are going to be willing to come in and help whoever comes in to dae it.

0:41:060:41:10

But it's not a bad size.

0:41:100:41:11

That's what the shop looks like just now

0:41:110:41:14

and that's what it's going to, hopefully, look like.

0:41:140:41:18

The kitchen's going to come from the back to nearer the front,

0:41:180:41:22

it's more hygienic, and we're going to have three toilets,

0:41:220:41:25

a gents, a ladies and a disabled.

0:41:250:41:28

Looking at it the now you think, "Woah, never,"

0:41:280:41:32

but once all this rubbish is cleared out, we'll get there.

0:41:320:41:36

Despite setbacks,

0:41:360:41:38

the Crees are still raising money

0:41:380:41:41

and determined to achieve their goal.

0:41:410:41:44

Hopefully we'll get the funding to get it up and going.

0:41:440:41:47

We're not giving up. Nope.

0:41:470:41:50

We will survive...

0:41:510:41:53

..somehow.

0:41:550:41:57

Back at court, there are smiles all round.

0:41:590:42:02

With the Timbys on.

0:42:020:42:04

It's been a year o'worry right off my shoulders.

0:42:040:42:07

I feel about 16 now.

0:42:070:42:09

The CCTV from the post office break-in doesn't show Steven after all.

0:42:090:42:14

-It's no even me.

-What did I say?

0:42:150:42:17

It's a wee dude with long hair and al' that.

0:42:170:42:20

-A wee guy that size.

-Aye. Well wee-er than me, man.

0:42:200:42:23

I've been that size, not this size, man.

0:42:230:42:27

Libby is over the moon.

0:42:280:42:30

There's also been a surprise round at Gordon and Annie's,

0:42:300:42:34

as their son David has been in the Sun newspaper.

0:42:340:42:37

David and Kimberley are determined to make something of their lives.

0:43:040:43:08

# J-U-N-K

0:43:260:43:29

# Junkie Chris...

0:43:290:43:31

# Catch you later I'm going to the shop. #

0:43:310:43:33

Back at Libby's, there's been an unexpected twist.

0:43:400:43:44

James has come home.

0:43:440:43:46

Libby has taken James back,

0:44:260:44:28

but knows that good intentions have a habit of slipping away.

0:44:280:44:32

Libby's not the only parent trying to keep drugs from destroying their family.

0:44:320:44:37

Gordon and Annie have tried everything they can to help Chris.

0:44:370:44:42

I think the future for Chris is...

0:44:420:44:44

to be in and out of detox units all the time.

0:44:440:44:47

But I think he'll keep going back to it. It just the way it seems to me.

0:44:470:44:52

All he cares about is his next tenner, he's chasing it all day long,

0:44:520:44:55

and he's a different person altogether.

0:44:550:44:59

Chris is no longer denying to his family

0:45:010:45:04

that he's taking heroin, but he thinks he's OK.

0:45:040:45:07

Fuck them, man. They can say what they want, know what I mean?

0:45:070:45:13

Doesn't bother me.

0:45:130:45:14

They're leaving somebody else alone, talking about me.

0:45:140:45:18

Gordon knows how hard an addiction can be to conquer.

0:45:180:45:24

I need the help for drink

0:45:240:45:26

and you've got to want help to get help.

0:45:260:45:30

You're the one that can only do it. I don't know about Christopher's future.

0:45:320:45:36

I don't see him having a future if he keeps taking that stuff.

0:45:360:45:40

The amount he's taking - he's just going to go down the hill rapidly and rapidly and rapidly.

0:45:400:45:45

And there's no much I can dae about it.

0:45:450:45:48

So his future... I don't think he's got a future the now.

0:45:500:45:54

As I've said and I'll say it again, he needs to want to help himself.

0:45:560:46:00

A month later, Libby's efforts to keep Steven

0:46:060:46:09

on the straight and narrow are finally paying off,

0:46:090:46:13

as he has a place at college.

0:46:130:46:14

-We're so proud of him.

-I'm fucking pure proud of him, man.

0:46:140:46:18

Cos he's the only one out of us all that's done something,

0:46:180:46:22

then trying to do something decent with his life at his age, 16.

0:46:220:46:25

I feel great knowing he's doing something with his life,

0:46:310:46:34

he's turning his life around and he's going to have a good go at it. He'll have a good go at it.

0:46:340:46:38

The best McMurray ever that boy's going to be, man.

0:46:380:46:41

He's going to put all the McMurrays to shame, every single one.

0:46:410:46:44

I can't wait for it to start because then at least I'll have something to do.

0:46:440:46:48

The guy says there was hundreds of folk. I just went hoping for the best, man.

0:46:480:46:53

Obviously this is the best it could have turned out.

0:46:530:46:55

So far, this is my biggest achievement.

0:46:550:46:58

That's good, so it is.

0:46:580:47:01

Brilliant. I didn't see it. Can I see it?

0:47:010:47:03

Good show, man.

0:47:050:47:07

'I made the first step

0:47:130:47:15

'and hopefully that'll get me on my way.'

0:47:150:47:17

I'm saying "hopefully".

0:47:180:47:20

James and his cousin Brian

0:47:240:47:26

have slipped back to using heroin

0:47:260:47:29

after yet another failed attempt to go clean.

0:47:290:47:32

I just went and got a pair there, aye.

0:47:330:47:36

It's just boredom, man, just for a charge. Just boredom.

0:47:360:47:41

-I'll try and make this just a one-off.

-Do you have them in your mouth? You did.

0:47:410:47:45

-This is just a one-off.

-So it is. Tell lies.

0:47:450:47:50

-You're a junky bastard.

-Aye.

-I'm only kidding.

0:47:500:47:53

Later in the year,

0:48:010:48:03

Steven's grant money was late arriving

0:48:030:48:05

and he decided not to take up his place at college.

0:48:050:48:07

James and his sister Kerry were accused of stealing from a neighbour,

0:48:100:48:14

and Libby was forced to leave the scheme for good.

0:48:140:48:16

On 17th April,

0:48:180:48:20

the number of people living on the scheme increased by one

0:48:200:48:24

as Candice successfully gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

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