0:00:02 > 0:00:08The host for the 2014 Commonwealth Games...
0:00:08 > 0:00:11will be Glasgow.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Seven years ago, Glasgow won the bid
0:00:13 > 0:00:16to host the 20th Commonwealth Games.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19This summer, athletes from 70 countries
0:00:19 > 0:00:21and millions of visitors will pour into the city.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27And Glasgow's run-down East End will get a multi-million-pound make-over.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33But where sporting dreams are made...
0:00:33 > 0:00:36communities can get destroyed.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39We are in the way. There's a massive development coming here,
0:00:39 > 0:00:41there's a machine coming here,
0:00:41 > 0:00:44it's called the Commonwealth Games. Of course we're in the way.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47For the last four years, we've followed the people of Dalmarnock
0:00:47 > 0:00:50in Glasgow's East End, the epicentre of the Games this summer.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55With the Games comes big opportunities...
0:00:55 > 0:00:57Who wouldnae want 500 fucking million
0:00:57 > 0:00:59spent on their doorstep?
0:00:59 > 0:01:00..new jobs...
0:01:00 > 0:01:03How can human beings build something like this?
0:01:03 > 0:01:07It's unbelievable, man, it's just great, man, how it can be done.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09..and a new East End.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12When will I get one of they houses?
0:01:12 > 0:01:14But what happens to a community
0:01:14 > 0:01:18when Scotland's largest-ever sporting event comes to town?
0:01:19 > 0:01:20Ya bastard!
0:01:20 > 0:01:23This, in this day and age,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26so arseholes can run about in shorts for two weeks.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30And then say they're going to leave us a legacy.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Glasgow, 2010.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Four miles from the city centre lies Dalmarnock in the East End.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08One of the UK's biggest regeneration projects has just got under way.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Four years to the Games and a Velodrome and sports arena,
0:02:13 > 0:02:16as well as a village for 6,500 athletes,
0:02:16 > 0:02:18has to be built from scratch.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22And all of it here in Dalmarnock.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27- You ready?- I'm ready.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29I think the Commonwealth Games is one of the best things
0:02:29 > 0:02:31to happen to this community
0:02:31 > 0:02:34- Ya fucking bam.- I'm not. From a decrepit...
0:02:34 > 0:02:36shithole...to a nice area.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39LAUGHTER
0:02:42 > 0:02:46Once thriving, Dalmarnock used to have over 10,000 residents.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Now there's less than 2,500.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54It's one of the UK's most deprived areas, with a life expectancy
0:02:54 > 0:02:56ten years less than the British average.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02But with the Games, all this might change.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07This is Dalmarnock.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09This is you right in the middle of the homeland here.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13At 30 years old, Darren Faulds is a father of five.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17A Dalmarnock lad born and bred,
0:03:17 > 0:03:20millions of pounds are being spent in his back yard.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Oh, you're going to love it up here, Steve, I'll tell you.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28The full Commonwealth Games.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32The Velodrome, the car parking, the cycling tracks,
0:03:32 > 0:03:33everything you can possibly think of,
0:03:33 > 0:03:35right in front of your very eyes.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39I seen all this land getting cleared,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41I never realised it was so big.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43It was nothing but trees and dirt and tyres and...
0:03:43 > 0:03:46But what a difference, I tell ye.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Can you come around here, Steve?
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Dalmarnock's my homeland, my father's, father's, father's,
0:03:52 > 0:03:56father's always been fae here, and I've always taken pride in that.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00You know that Dalmarnock was my homeland.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Want to show you the shops.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Darren is the local entrepreneur.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13He and wife Amanda own an off-licence, a pound shop
0:04:13 > 0:04:15and a cafe.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17My little empire. Come on, I'll take you into it.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20I'll give you a tour of the shops.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23So this is my... my little off sales, Steve.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Hey, Linda, how are ye?
0:04:27 > 0:04:28The shops are soon to be flattened
0:04:28 > 0:04:31to make way for the Commonwealth Games,
0:04:31 > 0:04:35but he sees this as a golden opportunity.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37This is prime land we're on at the moment.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39And it's only going to get wealthier.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42See, up until three, four year ago,
0:04:42 > 0:04:46you says to somebody "Oh, I'm fae Dalmarnock,"
0:04:46 > 0:04:49you know, anywhere in Glasgow, they'd go, "Uggh!"
0:04:49 > 0:04:51"Dalmarnock, what you doing staying down there?" kinda thing.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54And then, but, see, all of a sudden when the Games
0:04:54 > 0:04:56was announced that they were coming to Dalmarnock,
0:04:56 > 0:04:58"Oh, Dalmarnock, I'm fae Dalmarnock!"
0:04:58 > 0:05:02All the dafties that couldn't even spell Dalmarnock.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Just around the corner lives Margaret Jaconelli.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19A grandmother of three,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21she's a front-row seat of the new development.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Look. It's fantastic.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28My man kept saying, "Oh, it's huge," but...you don't imagine it
0:05:28 > 0:05:31till you see everything all derelict and all...
0:05:32 > 0:05:34..all the land all just cleared.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38It's going to be something once it's finished.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42It's new beginnings, isn't it, when you see it all like that.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43For the few of us going to be here.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47You see, when you think all the houses that was all here
0:05:47 > 0:05:49at one time, and then...it's just all land.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Margaret's tenement block once housed over 50 families.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Now hers is the only one left.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03My neighbours moved out seven year ago.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07She was my neighbour for 30-odd year.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09She moved round to one of the new houses.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11All the council tenants were moved
0:06:11 > 0:06:14but Margaret and husband Jack, who owned their flat, remained.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17That's me putting the light on.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25I call it a wee compound, cos that's what it's like now.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28They've just left everything.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Windows is opened and everything. No real...
0:06:31 > 0:06:34I try to keep in here clean and tidy.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43Her youngest son, Aaron, still lives at home.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Call it my rogues' gallery.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48All my photos.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51I've got four boys, the lot of them brought up in this house,
0:06:51 > 0:06:56and that's ma wee granddaughter, who loves it here.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57She comes to me every week.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00My wee father-in-law, he passed away.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01My mum and my dad.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03And my other wee grandson, Aiden his name is.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06They mean everything to me, my grandkids and my boys,
0:07:06 > 0:07:09we're family orientated.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12But seven years of living in a condemned street has taken its toll.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17That's me there. I've lost 12 stone. With what's happened.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21People...people actually walk by me, they don't realise it's me.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30The City Council have tried to get Margaret out for years,
0:07:30 > 0:07:32offering her £29,000
0:07:32 > 0:07:35or part ownership of a house a few miles away.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37But Margaret wants to stay mortgage-free
0:07:37 > 0:07:39and in the area she grew up in.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44This wee thing's older than I am.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46This belonged to my mammy.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52She has now been served a compulsory purchase order, for £30,000,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55giving the council the right to take her home.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Where I'm sitting is where the Commonwealth Village is, and, as far
0:08:01 > 0:08:05as I'm led to believe, my building's got to be down for next year.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13700 new houses will be built between Margaret's house
0:08:13 > 0:08:17and the Clyde, and a further 765 after the Games.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Do it there, it might be better.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Local councillor George Redmond remembers how the River Clyde
0:08:27 > 0:08:30was used to sell Glasgow to the Commonwealth Games Federation.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34Delegates came in there. They walked down this path.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39Springtime and summer, the trees are...are green, you know,
0:08:39 > 0:08:42there's animals all about the place, you know, the ducks
0:08:42 > 0:08:45and the swans are swimming, there's people on their bikes,
0:08:45 > 0:08:46there's joggers,
0:08:46 > 0:08:50you know, the rowers come right down here as well,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53so they're seeing all of that and they're...they're selling
0:08:53 > 0:08:56a vision about how Dalmarnock would look,
0:08:56 > 0:08:58er, once it was...it was regenerated
0:08:58 > 0:09:02and once it had the...the houses right on the Clyde itself.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05George has been rooting for Dalmarnock
0:09:05 > 0:09:07since being elected in 1999.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15It's what you've known, what you've grown up with.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Been born into the area, you know, you've been raised in the area.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22My family have a...a history there.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25I have so many relatives and friends, you know, within that area
0:09:25 > 0:09:28and you really want to... to do well for them,
0:09:28 > 0:09:31you want to do well for that neighbourhood.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34They needed a wee bit of inspiration and they needed,
0:09:34 > 0:09:37you know, just somebody to come up with...a way forward for them.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41Hopefully, through the Games, you know, we're putting
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Dalmarnock back on the map, but back on the map where
0:09:44 > 0:09:49people are proud to say, "Come and visit me in Dalmarnock.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52"Come and see the... the new facilities that are there."
0:09:54 > 0:09:56You have that stuff in for me?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05One of the main attractions will be the Velodrome and sports arena
0:10:05 > 0:10:07costing £113 million.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14And, with 70% of those who CAN work round here unemployed,
0:10:14 > 0:10:17it's a chance for some local boys to learn a trade
0:10:17 > 0:10:20on one of the Games' biggest construction projects.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26Once I found out about the Commonwealth Games, I really
0:10:26 > 0:10:30wanted to get on a job on site, do something really a part of it.
0:10:34 > 0:10:3718-year-old Steven is from nearby Dennistoun.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42At first, I was a bit nervous coming on here,
0:10:42 > 0:10:46because when I was at school I was the class clown.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50I hardly had any standard grades.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53In here I feel as if I can gain...
0:10:55 > 0:10:56..a lot more achievements
0:10:56 > 0:10:59and, plus, do something in life what I want to do.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Just weeks into his new job,
0:11:02 > 0:11:05and Steven is already getting a reputation.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11So, Steven, why do they call you Golden Straw?
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Cos he's a fucking sook.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16It's the way you've got to go in life, sooking up.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20So I can become an engineer.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Fucking old, older than me by the looks of it.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Put that in your pocket and take it to The Antiques Road Show.
0:11:32 > 0:11:33It's mad, innit?
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Workmate Liam also grew up here, but he's unsure about what he's seeing.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41All my childhood memories are here
0:11:41 > 0:11:43and basically they've all just been flattened
0:11:43 > 0:11:46and something's going to get built on top of it.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Is this going to make it better, or is it going to make it worse?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Time will tell, but, won't it?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Today, Glasgow's East End has a mixed reputation,
0:12:05 > 0:12:07and Dalmarnock's no different.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09But it was once a thriving community.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15I remember all the weans and all the dogs, and all the gangs
0:12:15 > 0:12:19all running up and down the streets. It was something else, so it was.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22The good old days, as they say. Been and gone.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30And when Darren's uncle, Councillor Redmond, was growing up, there was little unemployment.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34In the '60s, early '70s, a fantastic place
0:12:34 > 0:12:37and, you know, just a whole Bedlam of people.
0:12:37 > 0:12:42This whole street here was tenements at one point.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47My family - you know, my uncle, my grandfather - had shops.
0:12:47 > 0:12:52A grocer's shop, a furniture shop, so, you know, there was a bit of
0:12:52 > 0:12:57prosperity in those days, and a fantastic place to live.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Full employment, lots of opportunities.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Many who lived here provided the skilled labour for Glasgow's
0:13:21 > 0:13:23renowned shipbuilding industry.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29By the late '70s, the industry declined.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Before long, East End tenement slums were amongst the worst in Europe.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42The city's answer? Whole scale demolition.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46And tenants scattered.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52In 2005, another round of demolitions.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58This time, the high rises that had replaced the tenements.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Soon the only people left in Dalmarnock
0:14:03 > 0:14:04were the ones who couldn't get out.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13Demolished and demoralised, for the community,
0:14:13 > 0:14:16the Games are a chance to bring back some prosperity.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19With four years to go to the Games,
0:14:19 > 0:14:23there's a big event in Dalmarnock's hub - the community centre.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30Today, the council is setting out its vision for the first time to the locals.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Both George and his nephew Darren have come to hear
0:14:35 > 0:14:37the man with the plan, Councillor Archie Graham.
0:14:39 > 0:14:45I'm the politician that's responsible for everything to do with the Games.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48What that means really is that, if the Games go well,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51the Lord Provost and the leader of the council will take all the credit.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52LAUGHTER
0:14:52 > 0:14:57And if there are any difficulties, guess who's going to get the blame?
0:14:57 > 0:15:01It's my responsibility, from the council's perspective,
0:15:01 > 0:15:04to make sure the Games are delivered on time,
0:15:04 > 0:15:07on budget, and leave a lasting legacy for the city of Glasgow.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09I'm up for that.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11I'll make sure that happens.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Ladies and gentlemen, we need the public
0:15:13 > 0:15:16to be behind what we're doing, to support our efforts
0:15:16 > 0:15:19and to believe that they can benefit from the Games.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Tagged onto the Games is around £2 billion
0:15:25 > 0:15:28to be spent here in the East End over the next 20 years.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34From housing to a new business park and train station,
0:15:34 > 0:15:38this is one of the UK's biggest regeneration projects.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47We will, unashamedly, use the Commonwealth Games to help us
0:15:47 > 0:15:51regenerate the East End of the city, which is long overdue.
0:15:51 > 0:15:57We are determined to try and get to as many Glaswegians as we possibly can
0:15:57 > 0:16:01to improve their life expectancy, to improve their lifestyle
0:16:01 > 0:16:05and to, generally speaking, improve their standard of living on the back of the Games.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11As work progresses on the Velodrome,
0:16:11 > 0:16:14the athletes' village is just getting started.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20But before you can build the future, you need to get rid of the past.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Margaret Jaconelli has decided to refuse the council's order and stay put.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32You can see there's the... Where she's living.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34You know, the tenement.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Somebody said to me, "do you no' think she likes the attention?"
0:16:37 > 0:16:40and I'm thinking, but why would you want the attention of living
0:16:40 > 0:16:45in a place where the water system can't be the best.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49You know, you can't probably heat the property. You know?
0:16:49 > 0:16:53Do people go and visit you there? Or, you know, can she bring her family in?
0:16:53 > 0:16:54I don't really know.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58George Redmond's no' did anything for me.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02He's maybe doing it for the Commonwealth Village but he's no' did anything for me.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09'It's very difficult to advocate and represent someone
0:17:09 > 0:17:12'when you don't really know what they want.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15'Does she want a house? Does she want money?
0:17:15 > 0:17:16'Does she want both?
0:17:16 > 0:17:19'I don't really know what she wants,
0:17:19 > 0:17:21'but the compulsory purchase orders have been sent,
0:17:21 > 0:17:23'and I'm sure that'll concentrate minds
0:17:23 > 0:17:26'and get the solution for Margaret.'
0:17:28 > 0:17:32PHONE RINGS
0:17:32 > 0:17:36The compulsory purchase order of £30,000 is not enough
0:17:36 > 0:17:39to buy Margaret a similar two-bedroom flat here in the East End.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44I'm only a wee woman fae the East End of Glasgow.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46I'm a Glaswegian.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49And I've got rights like everybody else,
0:17:49 > 0:17:54but they way they're putting it through it's like as if we're non-existent.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58I've just got to stand up and fight for everything.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02And I believe in... The council is stealing my house off me.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05They're stealing it, and they're stealing my property,
0:18:05 > 0:18:08and I'm going to fight for it, cos I'm no' letting them away with it.
0:18:15 > 0:18:20Margaret's refusal to move has attracted interest from the West End.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23Dr Libby Porter, a tutor in regeneration at the University of Glasgow,
0:18:23 > 0:18:26has brought her students to Dalmarnock for a field trip.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Did they accept first offers, or were there problems with the neighbours?
0:18:35 > 0:18:37They all rented. They all rented from the Housing Association,
0:18:37 > 0:18:40so, of course, Margaret had bought her property
0:18:40 > 0:18:43and her family had bought her property through Right To Buy, and, of course,
0:18:43 > 0:18:47then got stuck in a situation where everybody else got happily re-housed.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49She applied for a house round the corner,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51and would have liked to have moved round there
0:18:51 > 0:18:55cos all her friends had moved, you know, the people that lived around her, all her neighbours had moved,
0:18:55 > 0:19:00and they wouldn't let her have one cos she wasn't a social tenant.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03She owned her property, so she wasn't eligible to be moved.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08We've got to ask questions about the roaming nature of these events
0:19:08 > 0:19:11and what effect they have on local populations.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14These kinds of events tend to get located, if you've noticed,
0:19:14 > 0:19:19in the poorer ends of cities, the poorer sections of cities,
0:19:19 > 0:19:23because their land values are much lower, so it's much easier to get the land.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26And you don't get as much of a stink from the local population
0:19:26 > 0:19:31because they don't have as big a voice as the wealthier parts of cities.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43It's spring 2010 and, at the other side of the city,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46the new Commonwealth Games logo is about to be unveiled.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Our mission, is to create a long lasting identity
0:19:51 > 0:19:55that will be associated with other world-class leading sports brands.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57APPLAUSE
0:20:00 > 0:20:05Today, on Commonwealth Day, all eyes are on councillor Archie Graham.
0:20:06 > 0:20:12Absolutely, absolutely. It's another milestone on the road to the Games, and it's absolutely fabulous.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19The City Council hope the image of the Games will help change Glasgow's reputation.
0:20:20 > 0:20:26There's been an unfortunate image attached to the city in times gone past.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30So, we're trying to make sure it's the image of the modern Glasgow
0:20:30 > 0:20:34that people have, rather than the one that existed 40 years ago.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46But in the East End, the stats haven't much improved.
0:20:46 > 0:20:51A 15-year-old boy has only a 50-50 chance of making it to the age of 65.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- Did you write that?- What? - "Say no, say no to the Games."
0:21:00 > 0:21:02No, I wrote "fuck off."
0:21:02 > 0:21:07Dalmarnock boy Calum will be 15 by the time the Games come to town.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Are you coming?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10He's a very outdoors boy, isn't he?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Oh, aye, he has to be out all the time. He's always out.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17He's interested in being a fireman and things like that,
0:21:17 > 0:21:21or a builder. Something that he needs to get really dirty at.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23He likes getting dirty, so something like that.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28The last school in Dalmarnock closed in 2003,
0:21:28 > 0:21:33so the kids now have to be bussed to the nearest primary and secondary schools.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38The odds are stacked against boys like Calum.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Living here, he's three times more likely to leave school
0:21:41 > 0:21:47with no qualifications than the average British teenager.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50- Thinks he's muscle man! - TEACHER:- Calum.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52He's got a bad attention span.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56He found out he was dyslexic six months ago,
0:21:56 > 0:22:00and they got help for it, so when he found out that he calmed down a lot
0:22:00 > 0:22:04and things like that, and he's going a lot better at school.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08I just hope he gets the support at secondary that he gets at primary.
0:22:08 > 0:22:12- TEACHER:- Two fives. Two times five, Calum.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14- Five and five.- Ten
0:22:16 > 0:22:18I just hope he does good in the future.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21I know he will. Long as he's out the jail, don't want him to
0:22:21 > 0:22:24end up in jail like a lot of other people and things like that.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25I want him to do good for his life.
0:22:29 > 0:22:34Meanwhile, Darren has received news about the compensation for his shops.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38Give me two seconds just to ask my wife it's OK if I announce it, right?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Cos this is top secret information I'm going to tell you.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47Amanda, is it all right if I let Steve and Emma know?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Your choice, what you asking me for?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Right, OK. Let's go back out, cos they're going to make a noise.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58It worked out 65 grand a shop we got.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03So it's not bad, taking into consideration the size of the units.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05And what did you buy them for?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Roughly about, between ten and 20 grand a shop.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11But we spent a lot of money on them.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16With five children and another on its way,
0:23:16 > 0:23:20the compensation could set up Darren and his family for the future.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24First thing we'll be doing is going on holiday,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26clearing my head, paying the bills
0:23:26 > 0:23:31and then, maybe come back and look at investment opportunities.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Engineering Assistant Steven is also making progress.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Today, he's come to show Calum's school
0:23:43 > 0:23:46what he and his boss and mentor, Manousos, are up to.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51We have some visitors here today,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54and I want to introduce you to everyone first of all.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57We have Steven and Steven, when he was your age,
0:23:57 > 0:24:01came to Dalmarnock Primary, and he's now working in the area,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04building all the new exciting buildings.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07My ambition is to become an engineer.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10I've always been, wanted to be an engineer since I left school.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14But first I need to go to college and sit my A levels and that.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16So I can go to university.
0:24:16 > 0:24:21And, if I play my cards right and, hopefully,
0:24:21 > 0:24:25gain enough from this job, I think McAlpine will do that for me.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Good afternoon, boys and girls.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29ALL: Good afternoon.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33Good to be here, we are your neighbours on the site
0:24:33 > 0:24:35and, you know, this is a great photograph of the area,
0:24:35 > 0:24:37taken just about a week or two ago.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Does anyone see their, their home in this photograph?
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Brilliant, now I think....
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Manousos went to one of the best universities in Scotland,
0:24:45 > 0:24:51really, he's just an inspiration to me for to become an engineer.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Not much seems to be happening, but I promise you, from now on,
0:24:54 > 0:24:56you'll be seeing big changes.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59But to give you a better idea of what it's going to look like,
0:24:59 > 0:25:02I've got this image here. It looks really good, doesn't it?
0:25:02 > 0:25:04I mean, this is going to be the Velodrome here,
0:25:04 > 0:25:07and the arena next door.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Another two years' time you'll see that as a brand-new building.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15Big arena and Glasgow'll look ten times better.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Amidst all the change in the East End,
0:25:22 > 0:25:24there is one thing that remains the same.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26- Legends!- Football.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Today, it's the Old Firm. Rangers versus Celtic.
0:25:37 > 0:25:42With Celtic's football ground right on the borders of Dalmarnock.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47The supporters bring hard cash,
0:25:47 > 0:25:51good for Darren, as his shop is soon to be shut down.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55- The full fucking street blue with Union Jacks.- A tin of beer!
0:25:58 > 0:26:01And a chance for young Calum and his pals to make some pocket money
0:26:01 > 0:26:03looking after supporters' cars.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06You watch them and then you run away.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09And then when you see them all walk down you run back up.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12I warned them to take their sat navs out.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17- So have you done well money wise today?- Aye.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20What do you reckon you made?
0:26:22 > 0:26:23Don't know, about £40.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Come in, Steve.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28And sales of one of Glasgow's favourite drinks have soared.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Look at my Buckie! What's left.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37Export, Tennents, there's hardly anything left!
0:26:37 > 0:26:39I'd like to go home and watch the football game,
0:26:39 > 0:26:41but I obviously need to go over to the Cash and Carry,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44get more stuff in for them all coming out.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52But for many fans, football goes hand in hand with religion.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Glasgow's two main rivals are Celtic,
0:26:54 > 0:26:58historically a Catholic team, and Rangers, a Protestant one.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08A history of sectarian tensions between the teams
0:27:08 > 0:27:13and their supporters goes back well over 100 years.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Hey, guys, just grab a seat and we'll make a start.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Youth workers in Dalmarnock's community centre are now trying
0:27:23 > 0:27:25to play their part to stamp it out.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27The first week was "What is sectarianism?"
0:27:27 > 0:27:30We came up with different definitions of what that was.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Some of you knew what it was but didn't know....
0:27:32 > 0:27:35In the last ten years, over 2,200 people have been convicted
0:27:35 > 0:27:39of sectarian crimes in Scotland, including several murders.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Do you think sectarianism is a problem in your life?
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Put your hand up.
0:27:46 > 0:27:51I'm going to show you a perfect example.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53This is what I'm talking about.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56This is where the boy, Stuart Spencer, died.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59This is a memorial they have wrote for him.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00Come up and see it.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03What happened?
0:28:03 > 0:28:06His life was taken from him.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08- You mean he was killed? - Murdered, aye.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Why did you want to show me that?
0:28:11 > 0:28:16Just to show you what the sectarianism was like in Dalmarnock.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25While sport has long divided the community,
0:28:25 > 0:28:28the council hope the Games will bring it together.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32I am absolutely convinced
0:28:32 > 0:28:37that sport is probably one of the most powerful tools
0:28:37 > 0:28:43to bring about social change, bring about a better life for people
0:28:43 > 0:28:46and I'm absolutely determined to use the Commonwealth Games in 2014
0:28:46 > 0:28:50to make sure that that's what happens in Glasgow.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11It's Summer 2010,
0:29:11 > 0:29:15and there is still no set date for the shops to be shut.
0:29:18 > 0:29:22In Darren's cafe, locals wonder about the council's priorities.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26They paid all the money for the railway station
0:29:26 > 0:29:29and everything else to be done up, but if they leave houses like that
0:29:29 > 0:29:32for people coming from different countries to see,
0:29:32 > 0:29:34see that kind of situation, it's ridiculous.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37Why not take those houses down and give the community new houses
0:29:37 > 0:29:41instead of spending all the money on all that? For two weeks.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45That's the houses there that I stay in, now they're pre-war houses.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48They are, about 80 or 100 year old or something,
0:29:48 > 0:29:51and we're still getting left, we want to know if they're coming down.
0:29:51 > 0:29:52We don't know nothing.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04Today, three quarters of the community live in social housing.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08After 2014, and a second phase of building work,
0:30:08 > 0:30:12over a thousand new houses will be up for sale.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16What we will have is we will have a very modern estate,
0:30:16 > 0:30:20a mixture of houses for rent, houses to buy
0:30:20 > 0:30:23and indeed a care centre for elderly people,
0:30:23 > 0:30:27on that site after the Games, a real integrated estate,
0:30:27 > 0:30:32where, where people will have a much improved standard of living,
0:30:32 > 0:30:34many of them from the standard of living
0:30:34 > 0:30:36that they enjoy at the minute.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38It's a brilliant example of what we're trying to achieve
0:30:38 > 0:30:40in terms of legacy.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47A legacy they hope will benefit Dalmarnock's youth.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54Today, 11-year-old Calum's leaving primary school for good.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57I'm just terrified, going to secondary, he's only,
0:30:57 > 0:30:59a wee boy, really.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01He's my baby, and I'm losing him. That's him.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05Going to secondary and all grown-up now.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07It's terrifying, for me, never mind Calum.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13Just seems so wee to go to secondary.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15That's my last baby away.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20Sandra is raising Calum on her own.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25- Is there a dad on the scene?- Oh, no. Not for Calum, been ten month.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27He don't want to see him.
0:31:27 > 0:31:32He takes drugs now, so he's not getting involved with my kids.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35And he doesn't really want to see his father,
0:31:35 > 0:31:39he's had the choice, but nae chance.
0:31:39 > 0:31:43- Wow!- Dad thinks he can pop in on a yearly basis,
0:31:43 > 0:31:46but that's no good for Calum, that's just, coming in one day,
0:31:46 > 0:31:49then giving him things and then just walk away again,
0:31:49 > 0:31:52so that's no good, for Calum, I mean, that's not what he needs.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54He doesn't need that.
0:31:57 > 0:32:02- Do you want to see your daddy soon? - Nah!- No!
0:32:02 > 0:32:05Hate him!
0:32:05 > 0:32:08- Dad? Why?- Don't know.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15In two thirds of households in Dalmarnock,
0:32:15 > 0:32:17children are brought up by a single parent.
0:32:17 > 0:32:21Darren is bucking the trend.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Ma weans, I love them.
0:32:24 > 0:32:29I'd like to, hopefully, give ma weans a chance in life, Steve.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32It's not something you hear a lot in the East End of Glasgow,
0:32:32 > 0:32:35cos there's a lot of mams and dads,
0:32:35 > 0:32:38maybe have no work, or cannae work.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47After over ten years of trading,
0:32:47 > 0:32:51Darren is forced to shut the last three remaining shops in Dalmarnock.
0:32:51 > 0:32:55Demolition is scheduled for a fortnight's time at the end of July.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01Dalmarnock is going to get smaller and smaller and smaller.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06Anyway, ladies, to the end of an era.
0:33:06 > 0:33:07Tweet, tweet.
0:33:11 > 0:33:12Sad.
0:33:12 > 0:33:13Terrible.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16Poor people of Dalmarnock have to suffer because of the Games.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20- Do you agree with me, hen? - It was a good wee area once
0:33:20 > 0:33:24- and now it's just gone to shit. - Aye.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Did you get that?
0:33:43 > 0:33:48There you go, for the last time ever. God bless.
0:33:48 > 0:33:54The final chapter has now closed in the history of Dalmarnock.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57As far as the wee beautiful shops are concerned.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01106 and 108 Springfield Road.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04The end of a great era,
0:34:04 > 0:34:06in the history of Dalmarnock.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08Tweet, tweet.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15To be honest with you, I'm thinking, I'm saying to myself,
0:34:15 > 0:34:18I'm not really giving a fuck the shops are shut.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21To be honest, I'm glad.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Cos hopefully something good's going to come out of it.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45Autumn, 2010.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47After refusing to accept the compulsory purchase order
0:34:47 > 0:34:53of £30,000, Margaret is taken to court by Glasgow City Council.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59Three hours later, Margaret has lost.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02She decides to appeal her case.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06I've got to stand up this week for my family
0:35:06 > 0:35:10and for my rights to be able to stay in my own home,
0:35:10 > 0:35:13till they come in and start to negotiate.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15We've just got to keep fighting.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18At the end of the day, somebody'll listen to us.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23And listen they do. Soon the family become front page news.
0:35:28 > 0:35:30I'm in the house of Margaret Jaconelli.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Now, tell us what's happening to you.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35If you don't pay for something, that's stealing,
0:35:35 > 0:35:39and this is what the council's doing, they're stealing my house.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44Despite the media interest, there's no thaw between Margaret
0:35:44 > 0:35:46and the city council.
0:35:46 > 0:35:51The council say they've tried to negotiate, but without any success.
0:35:51 > 0:35:56I'm on watch, I'm watching in case anybody's coming round to evict me.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58I'm laughing now but it's not funny.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01When you go out your home, you want to go out happy cos you're
0:36:01 > 0:36:03moving to a new home. You don't want to go out sad
0:36:03 > 0:36:06that you're getting evicted from your home.
0:36:06 > 0:36:11It'll be in Leith Street cos I ain't going anywhere.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13With Margaret and the Labour-led council in deadlock,
0:36:13 > 0:36:17MSP for Glasgow Bob Doris and Councillor McAlister,
0:36:17 > 0:36:20both from the Scottish National Party, get in on the act.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25The last thing I want to see is that, as we prepare
0:36:25 > 0:36:27to get the handover from Delhi to Glasgow,
0:36:27 > 0:36:31for the Commonwealth Games, is that we're talking about things like
0:36:31 > 0:36:34Mrs Jaconelli, when what we should be talking about, is the great
0:36:34 > 0:36:36opportunity that the Commonwealth Games brings to our city.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39I think it's in our job to, where appropriate,
0:36:39 > 0:36:41act as middlemen to make sure we can, not broker a deal,
0:36:41 > 0:36:44but just make sure that both sides are still talking,
0:36:44 > 0:36:47and they don't both become entrenched in their views,
0:36:47 > 0:36:50and ultimately make sure Mrs Jaconelli gets a fair price for her property.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53My father used to say, "Never take the first offer, son."
0:36:54 > 0:36:57- Well, I'll leave that to you. - He was a gambler.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00They're hoping to persuade the city council
0:37:00 > 0:37:02to give Margaret a better deal.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07But on the very same day,
0:37:07 > 0:37:11Margaret receives a much better offer from the council by post.
0:37:11 > 0:37:15Now all of a sudden they've upped heritage, and they've offered me,
0:37:15 > 0:37:18I think it was £60,000 or £70,000 heritage, so.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20And what does heritage mean?
0:37:20 > 0:37:24Heritage is to do with how long you've been in the place.
0:37:24 > 0:37:25I think the home loss was only 2½
0:37:25 > 0:37:29or something like that, and now they've upped that to eight.
0:37:29 > 0:37:32All in, it comes to about 80 something.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36Just need to wait and see what the lawyer says, take it from there.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41Before she has the chance to speak to a lawyer,
0:37:41 > 0:37:44Councillor McAllister and his advisor turn up.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49They cannae go back now. That is the least you're going to get,
0:37:49 > 0:37:53and I think there's room to negotiate.
0:37:53 > 0:37:56So, that's what I was told this morning, there's room to
0:37:56 > 0:37:59improve on that, you know, so, hopefully you'll get more,
0:37:59 > 0:38:03and hopefully you'll get somewhere to live that you're happy with.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05I don't want a mortgage, that's the only thing.
0:38:05 > 0:38:09- There's definitely room for negotiation, then.- Aye.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12With their advice, Margaret decides to refuse the offer.
0:38:14 > 0:38:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:38:17 > 0:38:18BAGPIPES PLAY
0:38:21 > 0:38:25Meanwhile, the City Council's top brass have some business
0:38:25 > 0:38:264,000 miles away in Delhi.
0:38:28 > 0:38:32HUW EDWARDS: This is the moment when Glasgow takes centre stage here in Delhi.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36- FEMALE ANNOUNCER:- And now the flag is being handed over
0:38:36 > 0:38:41to Lord Provost of Glasgow, Councillor Mr Robert Winter.
0:38:42 > 0:38:46Glasgow's looking forward with great anticipation to 2014,
0:38:46 > 0:38:50when we will celebrate the great sporting occasion
0:38:50 > 0:38:52which is the Commonwealth Games.
0:38:56 > 0:38:59300 volunteers from all over Scotland
0:38:59 > 0:39:01perform a lavish handover ceremony.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03MUSIC: "Auld Lang Syne"
0:39:12 > 0:39:14RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:39:23 > 0:39:27Back in Dalmarnock, the man known locally as Gorgeous George,
0:39:27 > 0:39:30Councillor Redmond, is doing his rounds.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36# Gorgeous George
0:39:38 > 0:39:40# The last of the go-getters. #
0:39:42 > 0:39:46I remember as a young boy, walking up and down this road,
0:39:46 > 0:39:49and it was really, really vibrant with people, you know.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52Probably 10,000 people living in Dalmarnock at that time.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55Yes, it's sad, but we're creating a new Dalmarnock,
0:39:55 > 0:39:57a new village, you know, where you actually have
0:39:57 > 0:40:01new shops and businesses, you know, real focal points for the community.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06Having won a landslide in the last two elections,
0:40:06 > 0:40:08George's constituents expect answers.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10George, we've got nothing here.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12WOMAN SHOUTS: Gorgeous George!
0:40:12 > 0:40:14£140 a month community charge I'm paying,
0:40:14 > 0:40:16I've not got a shop to go to.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18They forget people stay in here.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20They built a Berlin wall all the way round the area.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22We cannae get out, we cannae get in.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25There's very few places in Scotland which will see the investment
0:40:25 > 0:40:26that's going on here.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29- We've got to do what's best for the area.- Obviously!
0:40:29 > 0:40:32- And we cannae have...- I think some of these decisions are made
0:40:32 > 0:40:34and not thinking hard enough about the people in the area.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36It's all about managing change.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38The managing change agenda, there's never been anywhere...
0:40:38 > 0:40:41George, I don't know who managing change is.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44That's one thing about me, I'm not going to run away.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47You cannae run away, cos you still work down the road,
0:40:47 > 0:40:49the credit union, your mother says in Bridgeton
0:40:49 > 0:40:51and your brother stays up there, where can you run to?
0:40:51 > 0:40:54Cos you've got to remember, if you want elected,
0:40:54 > 0:40:57you've got to show the people that you care for the area.
0:41:07 > 0:41:08SMALL CHILD SPEAKS DARREN: Come here!
0:41:08 > 0:41:11With Darren forced to close his shops,
0:41:11 > 0:41:15the community centre tried to plug the gap by selling everyday basics.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18Oh, for fuck? In the paper!
0:41:37 > 0:41:38November, 2010.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41Darren and his family have yet to receive their big pay-out
0:41:41 > 0:41:43for losing their businesses.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46Not a penny off them. That's been 14 weeks.
0:41:46 > 0:41:4915 weeks, maybe 16 weeks now.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51Even worse, the shops are still standing empty,
0:41:51 > 0:41:55months after they were meant to be demolished.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58So far, the shops have been shut for about four month,
0:41:58 > 0:42:01and the community is just pissed off,
0:42:01 > 0:42:05because it's made everybody's life ten times harder.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08We want to know what's happening, when the work's starting,
0:42:08 > 0:42:10when the shops are getting built,
0:42:10 > 0:42:14when life can fucking start picking itself up a wee bit down here.
0:42:14 > 0:42:17Cos all it is at the present moment is fucking lorries sat still.
0:42:21 > 0:42:24And fucking walking for miles to get a loaf of bread.
0:42:30 > 0:42:31It's about what we're living in.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38With a large family to support and no livelihood, finances are tight.
0:43:01 > 0:43:05Ten days to Christmas and Steven is getting frustrated.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11They're still waiting on trying to get us into college,
0:43:11 > 0:43:14but they've not got the fundings yet for, like, us to go.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19It does get quite annoying when you get told that
0:43:19 > 0:43:23you will be going to college and then you end up no.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25Have to wait and see what happens.
0:43:25 > 0:43:28Oh, this is brutal, man.
0:43:28 > 0:43:30Today is his first review.
0:43:30 > 0:43:33Never had one of these before.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36I'm actually quite nervous about this.
0:43:36 > 0:43:37Oh.
0:43:37 > 0:43:41What would you say your ambitions, your career ambitions are?
0:43:41 > 0:43:45I want to become an engineer, but if I'm out there every day,
0:43:45 > 0:43:48then I'm not really learning any experience anywhere.
0:43:48 > 0:43:52It's a case of turning up, doing the same job over and over again.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56I've experienced the same stuff, like, if I go and do a survey,
0:43:56 > 0:44:00then, two days later, we've go to do another survey.
0:44:00 > 0:44:05Every job's going to have repetitive aspects, repetitive tasks,
0:44:05 > 0:44:11so that is something that you, that you need to be mindful of.
0:44:11 > 0:44:16As a company, Sir R McAlpine are very much wanting to invest in you
0:44:16 > 0:44:19- and progress you. All right? - Nay bother.- OK, brill.
0:44:19 > 0:44:23Keep up the good work, and it'll be hopefully another year.
0:44:23 > 0:44:24Aye, hopefully.
0:44:38 > 0:44:42Winter 2010, and the UK's hit with the big freeze.
0:44:43 > 0:44:45One of the coldest on record.
0:44:49 > 0:44:52In Glasgow, the council have upped Margaret's offer even further
0:44:52 > 0:44:54to £90,000.
0:44:54 > 0:44:57But her last-ditch attempt in court to halt eviction has failed.
0:45:00 > 0:45:05They threw it out, they threw it all out again, but I've to meet...
0:45:05 > 0:45:07'I've hardly slept, cannae have a good sleep,
0:45:07 > 0:45:10'my full family's the same.
0:45:10 > 0:45:13'They don't know what's going to happen to us.'
0:45:13 > 0:45:16You're thinking things, "How did they no do this?
0:45:16 > 0:45:18"How did they no do that? This isnae being done right,"
0:45:18 > 0:45:22and it's as if you're trying to correct everything yourself,
0:45:22 > 0:45:24as if nobody's listened to you.
0:45:28 > 0:45:31Margaret and her husband Jack have been spending a fortune on heating,
0:45:31 > 0:45:34not helped by the empty flats surrounding them.
0:45:36 > 0:45:37That's frost.
0:45:37 > 0:45:4014 degrees below.
0:45:40 > 0:45:44Windows have been took out above to froze us out,
0:45:44 > 0:45:49and, if you see this picture here, that's our home there.
0:45:51 > 0:45:55That's us heating the whole, we're heating this whole block.
0:45:55 > 0:45:58Normally I would have only been, between £800
0:45:58 > 0:46:01and £1,000 gas and electric a year.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04But because they took the windows from above me,
0:46:04 > 0:46:06I've been £5,000 a year.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11The Jaconellis have spent an extra £50,000 on fuel bills
0:46:11 > 0:46:14since all their neighbours left over eight years ago.
0:46:17 > 0:46:21Armed with a new lawyer, Mike Daily, they launch a secondary action
0:46:21 > 0:46:24against the Housing Association who own the flat above them.
0:46:24 > 0:46:29I've can't think in, you know, 20 years of my experience as a lawyer
0:46:29 > 0:46:33in Glasgow of somebody who, because they were holding out in
0:46:33 > 0:46:39their house, had the property above them, had the windows removed
0:46:39 > 0:46:42and mesh put in, so that the elements would go in,
0:46:42 > 0:46:46water could go in above your ceiling, and your heating bills
0:46:46 > 0:46:48would go up and rocket.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50That's what happened, and we're looking at a claim
0:46:50 > 0:46:54against the Housing Association that's responsible for that.
0:46:54 > 0:46:57I've never seen that kind of intimidation.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02Out of legal options to fight the eviction,
0:47:02 > 0:47:07Jack - a roofer by trade - takes matters into his own hands.
0:47:07 > 0:47:08In there.
0:47:09 > 0:47:10Steel bar across there.
0:47:11 > 0:47:16Screwed to the door, top, bottom, middle, and that's that covered.
0:47:16 > 0:47:17Back door's basically the same.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19I cannae go to work now.
0:47:19 > 0:47:21I've got to stay here and give her a hand
0:47:21 > 0:47:23cos I cannae leave it all to Margaret.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26I'm ready for a good fight, don't worry about that.
0:47:26 > 0:47:31Nobody walks over Jack Jaconelli. And that's that.
0:47:31 > 0:47:34They'll need to bring the army in to get me out.
0:47:34 > 0:47:36No' the army, the SAS, cos I'm no' going anywhere.
0:47:37 > 0:47:39I've made up my mind.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44While the Jaconellis don't want to leave Dalmarnock,
0:47:44 > 0:47:47Darren is keen to step out.
0:47:47 > 0:47:49His oldest daughter, Cameron, is taking piano lessons
0:47:49 > 0:47:51in Glasgow's affluent West End.
0:47:59 > 0:48:01Steve - look there, the big, lovely Finnieston Crane.
0:48:01 > 0:48:02Wait till you see it.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07There's building work here, too.
0:48:07 > 0:48:10Foundations for another Commonwealth Games venue -
0:48:10 > 0:48:11the Glasgow Hydro.
0:48:14 > 0:48:18Looking at it, it's phenomenal the work they've done.
0:48:18 > 0:48:22About another... A year, I think, Steve, if we come back up
0:48:22 > 0:48:26and have a look at it, I think you'd see a major progress.
0:48:32 > 0:48:36CAMERON PLAYS THE THEME FROM EASTENDERS
0:48:42 > 0:48:45She's always wanted wee keyboards or something
0:48:45 > 0:48:46and I says to her mother,
0:48:46 > 0:48:49"There's no harm in trying it, then, is there?"
0:48:49 > 0:48:51The work she's doing is just phenomenal,
0:48:51 > 0:48:53it's sometimes me and her ma cannae stop laughing
0:48:53 > 0:48:58at how successful and much progress that she's made
0:48:58 > 0:49:01for the time that she's worked with Anne. It is unbelievable, honest.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03She's doing a great job.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09Cameron's reached Grade Three in piano,
0:49:09 > 0:49:12but Darren won't let her forget where she came from.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16My wee granny taught me to be thankful
0:49:16 > 0:49:19and grateful for everything and anything that you get.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21And that's the way it goes.
0:49:22 > 0:49:27And as I say, if any of my weans want to try picturing themselves
0:49:27 > 0:49:29or comparing themselves to people...
0:49:30 > 0:49:31..then I don't know any ma or dad
0:49:31 > 0:49:34that wouldnae fucking kick their wean up the arse
0:49:34 > 0:49:37if they tried to do that to anybody, cos I would certainly do it.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39Simple as that.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52It's March 2011.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54Do you want a cup of tea, Jack?
0:49:56 > 0:49:59After eight years of living in a condemned street,
0:49:59 > 0:50:02the Jaconelli family prepare to face down eviction.
0:50:02 > 0:50:03DRILL WHIRS
0:50:11 > 0:50:13Four sleepers.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16Steel rod.
0:50:16 > 0:50:18So they cannae chain saw.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21So good luck to them. Bastards.
0:50:23 > 0:50:25Scholar-turned-activist Dr Libby Porter
0:50:25 > 0:50:28from University of Glasgow is on hand to lend support.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30They've barricaded themselves in
0:50:30 > 0:50:33and, well, the Sheriff's offices' eviction notice,
0:50:33 > 0:50:37as far as I'm aware, was good from Friday noon,
0:50:37 > 0:50:39and what we anticipate will happen
0:50:39 > 0:50:41is that Sheriff's officers will remove them.
0:50:47 > 0:50:51'The outcome of eviction is not something anybody wants
0:50:51 > 0:50:56'Really what we needed was a bit of movement from, from Margaret.'
0:50:56 > 0:50:59The Games, given obviously the importance of it
0:50:59 > 0:51:02to Dalmarnock, to Glasgow, to Scotland,
0:51:02 > 0:51:03um, will not be...
0:51:03 > 0:51:07There's not one person who'll stop that Athlete's Village being built.
0:51:13 > 0:51:15As day three of the barricade comes to an end,
0:51:15 > 0:51:18friends and family sneak out for a carry-out.
0:51:19 > 0:51:21Gorgeous. Tuck in.
0:51:21 > 0:51:23That's the last supper wi' us.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42DRILL WHIRS
0:51:54 > 0:51:57Day six. Still no eviction.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01Hopefully, Auntie Margaret and your granny
0:52:01 > 0:52:03and everybody will get out, won't they?
0:52:04 > 0:52:07Margaret's lawyer plans to scale up the fight,
0:52:07 > 0:52:10but getting in to see his client isn't that simple.
0:52:10 > 0:52:13- TV:- 'Margaret Jaconelli's lawyer was forced to climb through the window
0:52:13 > 0:52:17'of her home to discuss the move, after she barricaded herself in.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19'The Council, who want to demolish the flat
0:52:19 > 0:52:21'ahead of the Commonwealth Games...'
0:52:21 > 0:52:22We've got the application,
0:52:22 > 0:52:25I've drafted this application to the European Court of Human Rights.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28I think we've got a... We've got a pretty decent case, to be honest.
0:52:28 > 0:52:30So...
0:52:31 > 0:52:32Right.
0:52:34 > 0:52:37I've got the envelope ready to go to Strasbourg,
0:52:37 > 0:52:40European Court of Human Rights. Now, obviously, as I explained...
0:52:40 > 0:52:43- I know how long it could take. - It could take a long time, right,
0:52:43 > 0:52:44but the point is...
0:52:44 > 0:52:48if you're successful, it's a really powerful remedy.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51Mike wants to take Margaret's case to the European Courts,
0:52:51 > 0:52:53and fight for a universal principle.
0:52:53 > 0:52:57The Compulsory Purchase Order process in Scotland
0:52:57 > 0:53:00is not fair to ordinary working people.
0:53:00 > 0:53:05Because you don't have the money to pay for a legal team,
0:53:05 > 0:53:08to pay for evidence, to pay for expert witnesses
0:53:08 > 0:53:11and, if you're on a low income, there's no legal aid available.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13- So there's one there.- Right. - Give you that pen.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16'The council have access to QCs,
0:53:16 > 0:53:19'they have access to expert witnesses,
0:53:19 > 0:53:23'so they can present this case in a very compelling way.'
0:53:23 > 0:53:27So in terms of the equality of arms between the parties,
0:53:27 > 0:53:30it's really a case of David versus Goliath
0:53:30 > 0:53:33but, in this case, David doesn't even have a slingshot.
0:53:33 > 0:53:36Now, what's the best way to get out?
0:53:36 > 0:53:37CAMERAS CLICK
0:53:37 > 0:53:40- That's it, Mike. - Where's this foot...?
0:53:44 > 0:53:47Right. Thanks.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49- Yeah.- Thanks, Mike.- OK, cheers.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55As night falls, all but a few press have left,
0:53:55 > 0:53:58with many supporters having to resume their own lives.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00Margaret and her close family can only wait.
0:54:01 > 0:54:03Feel like a caged animal now.
0:54:03 > 0:54:06I mean this is... I can't even open the window
0:54:06 > 0:54:08in case there's a Sheriff's officer out there.
0:54:08 > 0:54:11And a hand coming in the window to grab you.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13We're waiting on them to make the move.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15We cannae do nothing. We've...
0:54:15 > 0:54:17We're done ours. We're done ours.
0:54:17 > 0:54:18Our move's been made,
0:54:18 > 0:54:21the...fort's been built.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25We're waiting for the Indians to come.
0:54:25 > 0:54:26To take the fort off us.
0:54:26 > 0:54:28It's as simple as that, isn't it?
0:54:36 > 0:54:37What time is it?
0:54:37 > 0:54:38Five o'clock.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40Five o'clock in the morning.
0:54:42 > 0:54:43Day seven.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45Two hours to sunrise.
0:54:45 > 0:54:49Jack has rigged a CCTV camera to give them an early warning.
0:54:49 > 0:54:52Christ almighty, that's a... That's a lot of cops.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03DRILL WHIRS
0:55:08 > 0:55:11SHOUTING
0:55:17 > 0:55:20This is what we've fucking built this for today.
0:55:20 > 0:55:24I knew this was going to happen, but I put up a fight and that's it.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26DRILL WHIRS
0:55:33 > 0:55:35They've got to come in the front door
0:55:35 > 0:55:37BANGING
0:55:40 > 0:55:43INDISTINCT SHOUTING
0:55:43 > 0:55:46BANGING CONTINUES
0:55:50 > 0:55:53Guerilla tactics. PHONE RINGS
0:55:53 > 0:55:54BANGING CONTINUES
0:55:54 > 0:55:56They've killed it at the mains.
0:55:56 > 0:55:57Hello?
0:55:59 > 0:56:02They've turned the lights off. Right. Aye.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06DRILL WHIRS
0:56:09 > 0:56:12Jaconelli, and any other occupants within the premises,
0:56:12 > 0:56:14I'll ask you to stand back from the door.
0:56:14 > 0:56:16- No!- No!
0:56:16 > 0:56:18- No!- Get out!
0:56:18 > 0:56:20No!
0:56:23 > 0:56:25BANGING
0:56:26 > 0:56:28Watch it.
0:56:31 > 0:56:32Stand back from the door, please.
0:56:32 > 0:56:34- No! I've got my back to it!- No!
0:56:38 > 0:56:40Right, they're my hands coming in!
0:56:43 > 0:56:45- Watch your hands, please!- No!
0:56:47 > 0:56:50British Government's allowing this in this day and age,
0:56:50 > 0:56:54so arseholes can run about in shorts for two weeks.
0:56:54 > 0:56:57Then displace a whole lot of people in Dalmarnock.
0:56:59 > 0:57:01And then say they're going to leave us a legacy.
0:57:01 > 0:57:03We've got a fucking legacy -
0:57:03 > 0:57:05black and blue marks by these Sheriff's officers.
0:57:05 > 0:57:07- My arms.- Arms there, look.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17OCCUPANTS JEER
0:57:17 > 0:57:18Do your best!
0:57:23 > 0:57:26The Sherriff's officers have come in just now, OK?
0:57:26 > 0:57:28They've come round to the house just now.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30It was granted against you back in September,
0:57:30 > 0:57:33there's nothing to serve, there's no warrant to serve or anything.
0:57:33 > 0:57:36Ha-hey! That's him in there.
0:57:36 > 0:57:38Excuse me, sir...
0:57:44 > 0:57:46Next time on Commonwealth City...
0:57:50 > 0:57:53..Margaret and Jack's family home is torn down,
0:57:53 > 0:57:56with no compensation in sight from the council...
0:57:56 > 0:57:58Six weeks down the line,
0:57:58 > 0:58:01I've no' had a penny or any correspondence from them.
0:58:01 > 0:58:03..Darren uses the compensation money
0:58:03 > 0:58:05to give his kids the life he never had...
0:58:05 > 0:58:08I'm sure it's every man's dream,
0:58:08 > 0:58:10getting their weans sent to a private school.
0:58:12 > 0:58:13..and, when all seems lost,
0:58:13 > 0:58:16Dalmarnock calls on one of its own to save the day.
0:58:17 > 0:58:19For us, the only way is up.
0:58:19 > 0:58:22And to get as much out of this as we can for this community.