Episode 2 Commonwealth City

This programme contains very strong language.

The host for the 2014 Commonwealth Games will be Glasgow.

Seven years ago, Glasgow won the bid to host the 20th Commonwealth Games.

This summer, athletes from 70 countries

and millions of visitors will pour into the city.

And Glasgow's rundown East End will get a multi-million-pound makeover.

But where sporting dreams are made, communities can get destroyed.

We are in the way.

There's a massive development coming, a machine coming here,

it's called the Commonwealth Games. Of course we're in the way.

For the last four years we've followed the people of Dalmarnock

in Glasgow's east end, the epicentre of the Games this summer.

CHILDREN YELL

With the Games comes big opportunities.

I'm sure it's every mum and dad's dream,

getting their weans sent to a private school.

New jobs.

How can human beings build something like this?

It's unbelievable, man, it's just great how it can be done.

And a new east end.

When will I get one of them new houses?

But what's the real story

when Scotland's largest-ever sporting event comes to town?

Y'bastard!

They've consulted to death.

Everybody's consulted us on the Games but does anybody really listen?

Whoo-hoo!

It's 2011. Three years to go to the Games.

Four miles from the city centre lies Dalmarnock,

where one of the UK's biggest regeneration projects is underway.

A velodrome and sports arena as well as a village for

6,500 athletes are being built from scratch.

And all of it here, in Dalmarnock, in the east end of Glasgow.

-I want your camera.

-CHILDREN LAUGH

And I'll take your bird, an' all. I'm no' kidding on, man.

Dalmarnock used to have over 10,000 residents.

Now there's less than 2,500.

It's one of the UK's most deprived areas, with a life expectancy

ten years less than the British average.

But with the Games comes the promise of a new East End.

I think the Usain Bolts of this world,

I think his status will actually be great for the area, where Usain Bolt

has walked in the...shadows of young people in Dalmarnock.

With the community going through such a huge transformation,

who will stick around and who has to move on?

Come on. One, two, three, up.

Try and no' pour your cornflakes over me!

In Dalmarnock live the Faulds family -

Mum Amanda and five kids, including pianist Cameron...

..and Dad Darren,

who's spent his whole life within this half-square mile.

To the left, there is going to be the Athletes' Village.

Further down is going to be the velodrome.

In summer 2010, local entrepreneur Darren was forced

to close his two shops and cafe to make way for the Athletes' Village.

The end of a great era...

..in the history of Dalmarnock.

He was due a big pay-out.

It worked out... 65 grand a shop I got.

Darren has now received his compensation and,

ever the entrepreneur,

he's using part of it to fund temporary premises.

So what do you think Steve, boy?

The new business.

It's cracking!

It was this or nothing. Simple as that.

Temporarily.

I think it'd be a bit silly to leave Dalmarnock at this point in stage,

especially living down there through all the rough years down there.

The last 20 year anyway, maybe 30.

So I'd like to wait until the area is built back up,

then my weans will be an early teenage age, then maybe move my...

my weans away before they get to a, like, dangerous age, kind of thing.

Next door to Darren's new shop is the community centre,

Dalmarnock's social hub.

Getting my war paint on, Steven.

Its manager is fellow East Ender and mum of two, Yvonne Kucuk.

SHE LAUGHS

You're terrible. Hurry up, go! You're making me self-conscious.

Commonwealth Games to me is a catalyst.

We're hoping that the new community

that arises in the Athletes' Village

will put the heart back into this one.

I've got a passion for this area.

This is the area I grew up in, I was born in,

and I'm bringing my kids up in.

On its own, number 7.

Unlucky for some, 13.

From bingo to gardening...

..computer classes and gala days...

..Yvonne has worked hard to turn this centre

into the heart and soul of Dalmarnock.

CHEERING

Dalmarnock, to me, is a small population, but there's a high

concentration of issues here, whether it's alcoholism, or it's

drugs misuse, criminality.

But I see here remnants of my childhood,

where neighbours looked after neighbours, borrow cups of sugar.

It's a real close-knit community.

Good, aren't they?

-We're going to end up with potatoes now.

-And peas!

-Yeah!

But all her hard work might be for nothing.

With the Games coming, this place is about to be bulldozed.

Scott, that was a deflection.

So we're here.

If we look at post-Games... then we're away. Four trees.

So where do we go?

According to the council's latest plan,

Yvonne's community centre will soon be nothing more than a memory.

But she isn't about to take it lying down.

We need someone from the council, once the plans are crystal clear,

to come out and say, "This is the way it's going to be,"

or we get a plan together locally, and we go to them and say,

"You're obviously too busy to come to us,

"so here's one we made earlier."

Soon, this whole area will be demolished,

taking with it the last surviving tenements.

Margaret Jaconelli and her family have been living in this

two-bedroom flat for over 35 years.

I think, when it comes down, I'll be a wee bit sad cos that was the only home we've known.

We haven't...we're homeless. And that's our only home.

After a seven-day barricade,

the family were forcibly removed from their home.

I'm only a wee woman from the East End of Glasgow, and I've got

rights like everybody else but the council is stealing my house off me,

and I'm going to fight for it cos I'm no' letting them away wi' it.

HAMMERING ON DOOR

INDISTINCT SHOUTING

HAMMERING CONTINUES

PHONE RINGS

British Government's allowing this, in this day and age,

so arseholes can run about in shorts for two weeks.

Now the council have stripped out her flat.

When you see your furniture lying in your garden all smashed up,

and there were nothing wrong with it, do you know what I mean?

It's sad that it's happened like this.

It didnae need to happen like this.

Today, the family's tenement is being demolished,

but there's still no agreement on the level of compensation.

Take our property off us, put us out, this is six weeks

down the line, we've not had a penny or any correspondence from them.

They're demolishing our close, our house, after 35 year.

That's it going down.

Ach, it's sad, isn't it? It's sad. Family home.

After all them years.

Margaret and Jack are now appealing to

the European Court of Human Rights,

to fight for the right to legal aid for compulsory purchase orders.

Whilst they wait, they have had to move in with their son

just outside Dalmarnock.

If it goes our way, we've won.

Hopefully new laws brought in that people know exactly where they stand

with compulsory purchase and they get a fair price for their property.

-And they get treated properly.

-Not thrown in the street and say, "That's what we think you're worth."

We're strong. Ain't we?

Aye.

At the top of the road, they are building the Games' star attraction,

a £113 million velodrome and sports arena.

# Jason Derulo. #

Do you like that?

LAUGHTER

Catch it up, bad boy!

In January 2010,

local lad Steven Grouchey grabbed an opportunity brought about

by the Games and landed a job as an engineering assistant.

My ambition is to become an engineer.

But first I need to go to college and sit my A Levels and that,

so I can go to university.

And if I play my cards right and hopefully gain

enough from this job, that McAlpine will do that for me.

But with no funding, college never happened and a year in,

Steven began to lose heart.

It's a case of turning up, doing the same job over and over again.

-Every job's going to have repetitive aspects, repetitive tasks.

-Aye.

Now Steven is back on course.

I think we will gain a lot out of the Commonwealth Games, definitely.

It's a rough area, Dalmarnock.

I'm no' going to lie there, I know it's a rough area.

It's not a good thing to see, to get brought up with.

There was violence, there was vandalism.

Hopefully, for the people that's going to be brought up in 2014,

they can have a good life

and see the changes in Dalmarnock.

Cannae wait till it's finished. See what my achievements are going to be.

Steven was fortunate to find a job on his doorstep

but opportunities like this are rare in Dalmarnock.

It's a strange place, Dalmarnock.

Previously, if you go back in history maybe 10, 20,

30 years, people lived and worked here en masse.

Now there's no reason to be in these streets.

It's kind of cut off and kind of, you know, isolated.

Young people in particular are kind of isolated due to the...

historic gangs.

I think the Baltic Fleet, as they're called here, or once were called.

So you've got kids growing up into that, what their fathers did,

their grandfathers did, their big brothers did,

so that kind of taints their world.

Glasgow's reputation for gang warfare

hit the headlines in the '60s.

Some 50 years later, Glasgow still has over 100 gangs,

the majority of them tied geographically to parts of the city.

Dalmarnock is home to the Baltic Fleet,

Scotland's oldest still-fighting gang.

Something Darren's brother, Brian Faulds,

is finding hard to shake off.

I mean, if you're from Dalmarnock you're a Baltic Fleet boy,

simple as that.

Cannae go anywhere.

They think if you're Baltic, well, this mob are the Baltic mob,

so let's go and do them.

See that? That's in there, that's in my nerve system.

What kind of gun was it, then?

It was a shotgun and a Beretta, 9mm.

Went and shot a guy, the gun jammed and the guy shot ME.

Which is eachy-peachy, so...

That's a stab wound you're looking at.

This was the other night there, just a wee bit of a misunderstanding.

I'm just a hustler on the street.

I make money.

I'm what you call a...

I'll get you what you want.

You ask me for something, I'll get you it.

You know what I mean, Steve?

29-year-old Brian wants a better life.

I'm trying to be legit,

but trying to be legit down here

is like trying to rub blood off a stone.

Once you're known.

Hoping for a fresh start, he's moved his family out of Dalmarnock.

I was brought up in Dalmarnock.

Then my dad went to jail and my ma moved back to Bridgeton.

I met Brian when I was about 16 or 17.

Brian's partner Gillian is five months pregnant.

She's worried Brian's past will catch up with him.

Brian knows he needs to watch what he's doing now because

there's too many people after him and whatever.

And it's happened quite a lot, so it is. Things happen

some of the time for nothing, for nae reason at all, really.

If someone comes to my door, chaps my door, and tells me that's it...

He might not be here any more and I'm left wi' two weans.

I don't want this life any more.

I ended up with six years in the jail, I got out,

I got another three years in the jail.

I got out and I got two-and-a-half years in the jail

and I don't want my son growing up to something

he thinks he has to live up to. I want him to be the best he can.

Doctor, lawyer, whatever he wants to be I want him to be.

It's nearly three years since the Games were announced,

but still no news of a replacement community centre.

I can appreciate that a machine as big as the council,

maybe they don't really know what they're doing.

And there's nobody there saying, "Hold on the noo,

"what about this community?"

And here we are, wee Dalmarnock, who's ignored, trampled on,

jumped on top of, has to fix it itself.

CHILDREN YELL

Frustrated with the council,

Yvonne has decided to take matters into her own hands and think big.

We're at the point where I don't think that you can go much lower.

For us, the only way is up.

And it is to get ourselves together, it's to be strong

and to get as much out of this as we can for this community.

She's heard about a community that bought itself.

Welcome to Renton.

Near Loch Lomond, the town of Renton was once thriving,

but by the 1960s it had become more known for its problem families.

20 years ago, the community decided enough was enough.

All the houses you will see here are social rented houses.

What we've tried to do is to integrate the older elements of community, in terms of

age-wise, wi' younger people as well, so it's not a them and us.

It's not, they are over there, the old folk are over there, the young people never see them.

We were told when we began this process

that people weren't looking after their gardens,

they would wreck the place, they wouldn't look after it,

and just none of it came to fruition

because we haven't just tackled the physical environment here,

we've tried to tackle other social issues that goes along with that.

Archie Thomson set up a development trust,

a charity allowing the community to buy its own land

and buildings through grants.

Everything that we're now looking at belongs to

the community in one form or another, either through a development trust,

through a housing association or a social economy business.

On the other side of the road is what's called an

Integrated Healthy Living Centre, which the community own.

And of course we've got a nightclub for the elderly,

-across the road, you know!

-Looks fabulous.

Yvonne wants Dalmarnock to follow Renton's example.

I was totally blown away.

That's the role model and the blueprint that I want to follow.

They own facilities, they own the doctors,

they own the care home, they own the local primary school,

they own the dentist, they own the post office.

They built the houses to local peoples' spec. Absolutely amazing.

Plus, this year they've just broke clear of £1 million,

so how great would it be to have £1 million to invest

in your community every year?

In the 1960s, regeneration in Glasgow meant one thing -

tearing down the city's tenements that had become slums...

..to make way for a new vision of the future.

But by the 1980s, the city began to reverse this policy,

trying instead to refurbish these iconic buildings.

Here, in Dalmarnock, the last surviving Victorian tenement

is not so lucky.

It's due for demolition any day.

Darren and his mate Mark are taking a cheeky last look

at the condemned flats above the shops

which he ran for over a decade.

It's a shame that these buildings are getting demolished

in the East End of Glasgow, and Dalmarnock

especially that I'm concerned about.

Cos these are the best buildings in Glasgow,

or as some people like to put it, the pride and joy of the city.

100 years old, these buildings.

These big crackers lasted 100 summers, 100 winters,

two world wars,

and as I said, once all this is all demolished,

we'll never see anything like it again. It's terrible.

Here, Steve, to show you how old these buildings are,

there's the old outside toilets.

HE LAUGHS

All the neighbours would all queue up to get in there at one time.

At the community centre, Yvonne has decided to copy Renton

and set up a Dalmarnock Development Trust.

Come on, George.

To do this, she needs buy-in from councillor George Redmond.

Since being elected in 1999, the local boy made good

has been playing his part in bringing the Games to the area.

Somewhere between three-quarters of a billion to a billion-pound investment in this area.

You know, I'm not saying that I'm delivering all of it

but I'd like to think I've had a big influence in most of it.

Luckily, George and Yvonne are childhood friends.

Shades on.

Shades on. Phone in one ear, computer in the pocket.

She's also drafted in two regeneration experts

to discuss future plans for Dalmarnock.

All right, cheers. All right, bye-bye.

Wrong number.

OK, main purpose for today,

we planned this meeting for the 23rd.

What do we want out of this? We need to be clear between the four of us.

We want support for the trust and we want them

to formally acknowledge that the trust's coming along...

Renton took 20 years, and that's the preferred model.

We will do that faster because of what's happening here

and because of the buy-in support we've got.

We have to make sure, cos I know this model works.

Development trust will work. We need the buy-in for it.

Absolutely.

To finance her dream, Yvonne needs support from the council

and regeneration agencies.

I think that what we need to make clear to them

is that we're raising the bar higher.

That what you're considering is legacy for Dalmarnock,

it's something that we want to try and expand and raise a bit higher.

Can we physically make them act on what they say?

-I can.

-That's what I mean. That's what I mean.

11 o'clock on the 23rd.

See, I think it's important that people realise that outside

the sun is shining, cos you can't really get this

from the kind of smoke-filled rooms of Dalmarnock.

The sun is back, we are so, you know, grateful.

We really appreciate that. I have been telling people it's

all being provided for them through myself,

through Glasgow City Council.

Yvonne wants a stake in the Games' legacy for boys like

12-year-old Calum, who lives beside the velodrome.

The park's for two-year-olds. It's all rubbish.

Why don't you go somewhere else?

Cos I cannae be bothered walking that far to go somewhere else.

Like two-thirds of households in Dalmarnock, Calum is being

brought up by a single parent.

Dad thinks he can pop in on a yearly basis

but that's nae good for Calum, that's not what he needs.

A year earlier, Calum left primary school.

You say it's rubbish all the time and then you...

..when you leave, you want to go back.

Over the summer, he and his pals explored their changing neighbourhood.

-Did you write that?

-What?

-"Say no to the Games."

No, I wrote "fuck off".

Now in high school, Calum's seeing it change by day...

This is the inside of one of the houses.

Downstairs and...building in here.

..and night.

If you can look just behind me, it is Sir Robert...Al...

McAlpine, who will be involved in the Commonwealth.

There is going to be a lot of digging,

so the more that there is, the quicker it'll all get done.

Thank you. Bye.

Tagged onto the Games is around £2 billion

to be spent here in the East End over the next 20 years.

The ambition, to create 10,000 new jobs

and build homes for over 20,000 new residents.

Money which Yvonne is trying to tap into.

Today, she's looking for support for a development trust to allow

Dalmarnock to manage itself.

To help, George has gathered the city's movers and shakers.

Can I just thank everyone for being able to attend this morning?

Most of today's meeting will be taken up with

the development trust and how that adds value

and quality to the work that we're doing.

We went to Renton and we looked at it, the local trust down there.

Can't find a bit of litter in the place.

It's well looked after, the community love it,

they've taken ownership of it.

The advantage we've got over Renton is, three of the biggest regeneration projects in Europe

are happening on our doorstep. If we cannae pull this one off...

I think the real point here,

in terms of engaging with the community, allowing them to

sit at the table, allowing them to play a full role in this,

they will only enhance the quality of what we are doing.

It's worth saying, George,

that we're supportive of what you're trying to do here.

If, in 2014,

all we're left with is a beautiful collection of buildings,

but no new change in the social conditions or the life

opportunities of the people who live around here, then we've failed.

What we're saying to you is, we need you to deliver the dream.

This is so important, yous can change lives,

not just a legacy talking shop, yous can actually really change lives.

OVERLAPPING COMMENTS AND LAUGHTER

'Yvonne's great.

'We're very lucky to have her working in the neighbourhood.'

We're very lucky that she's also got her own ambitions, you know, for

that area. She wants so much more than what the local people want.

Yvonne would want to take over Glasgow, you know,

and then take over Scotland, then take over the UK and the world.

That went really well. Really well.

I can see it happening now, do you know what I'm saying?

I can really see it take shape.

And it's going to happen and it's going to be great

and it's going to be for everybody and I'm really, really chuffed.

While George and Yvonne try to shape the new Dalmarnock,

some East Enders find it difficult to shake off the old way of life.

A violent incident has left Brian with a broken arm.

It's just this one here.

You know what I mean? I'm trying to do that,

it's killing me. See, in the morning, it's sore on the morning.

See that?

I could see him. I couldn't really see what was happening,

we could see him by this big, long wood, and till I got near him,

I could see the back of his trousers,

blood was spurting out of the back of it.

I says, "You've been stabbed at the back."

And when pulled it down and looked, it was pouring out of his bum,

just pouring out all over.

And...why?

I don't know, I don't know.

I've got a few enemies from my past.

I left that behind me, you know what I mean, cos of the weans

and...but some people are still... still looking for me.

Brian now wants to move his family even further away,

out of Glasgow completely.

I will just get a house out of here, next to my dad.

Just make a new life up there.

Be the last act of violence on my part.

Another baby coming so, I'm done wi' violence. I mean that.

Finished with it.

As the weeks turn to months, the velodrome

and sports arena begin to reveal themselves.

Slowly, Glasgow's skyline is changing.

It's now 1,000 days to the Games.

In the city centre, a sports day marks the big event.

In Dalmarnock, it's five months

since Margaret's tenement was demolished.

See that white compound? My house was in front of that.

Still in dispute over the amount,

Margaret has yet to receive any compensation.

I went to the primary school over there, it was Springfield,

and I went to the secondary school up here.

Used to walk up to the secondary school, me and my friends.

Councillor Archie Graham,

responsible for the delivery of the Games, backs the council's actions.

The issue has been resolved. There's an ongoing case in terms of

the level of compensations, but the issue has been resolved

in the sense that we have the land that we required to get to build

the new housing estate in Dalmarnock and we're building it currently.

Clearly, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs,

so there is disruption to these communities for a short period

of time while we prepare these venues for the Games, but the legacy

that's left behind is well worth the disruption, I would contend.

Meanwhile, Dalmarnock gets some shocking news.

NEWSREADER: Police have revealed that a man whose body was found near the

River Clyde in Glasgow had been attacked and his body set on fire.

Locals try to come to terms with the horrific murder

of yet another young man.

This time, 30-year-old Brian Faulds,

Darren's younger brother.

Brian Faulds was discovered on the walkway to the river

near Dalmarnock Bridge just before eight o'clock yesterday morning.

Strathclyde Police say they're investigating

the possibility that he was killed elsewhere and his body moved.

Barely two weeks out of a stint in prison,

Brian was not able to escape his past and change his life.

He leaves behind partner Gillian and their two young children.

How am I supposed to get it in?

I thought you were helping.

Eight weeks since his brother's murder,

Darren and Amanda soldier on with Christmas.

You can imagine how this has affected him.

It's his brother, isn't it? And it's his wee brother.

It's something that nobody's going to ever get over and...

it's going to haunt us all for the rest of our life, to be honest.

Brian will never, never be away from me, Steve.

Never out my heart. I think about him every day.

Same with the rest of the family.

I'm sure that's what's happened to anybody else that lost a loved one.

I just keep picturing he's going to walk around the corner someday.

-CHILD CHATTERS

-It's coming on, baby.

The family join the rest of Dalmarnock

over the road in Yvonne's community centre,

but uncertainty about the centre's future hangs in the air.

This could potentially be our last Christmas here

in Dalmarnock community centre.

I would hope we can maybe campaign to keep it open a wee bit

longer while the building work goes on. So all that's left today

is to thank you for coming, and...have a very nice Christmas.

APPLAUSE

With less than three years to go to the Games,

Yvonne's dream of a community buy-out is looking shaky.

We spoke to everybody - local government, national government -

on that very subject and everybody has been very, very supportive.

"Great plan. Fantastic. Let's hear more about it."

So whilst they're all paying lip service to you,

the clock's on countdown.

No-one's actually driving it forward.

It looks like this will be the last Nativity in the community centre.

Darren's kids take centre stage.

INDISTINCT: I have come from heaven...

You'll have a child but do not be afraid.

He will be the Son of God...

This is amazing. We are honoured.

WHISPERING

Farewell!

With Darren junior creating havoc.

CLAPPING AND SINGING

New Year 2012, and anticipation

of the Olympic Games and Queen's Jubilee reaches fever pitch.

In Glasgow, the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

and Emirates Arena are nearing two-thirds complete.

That's mostly all the framework and all that finished now,

so obviously you see the big changes

and the difference from the last time you were here.

See how the texture that you've got, the diamond-shaped curve,

right round there.

Definitely, the velodrome's

by far the most interesting for the outside works.

It's this great already. Just think when it's finished.

It's unbelievable how small it makes you, cos look how big it is, it's just massive.

How can human beings build something like this? It's just...

It's... It's unbelievable, man. It's just... It's great, man,

how it can be done.

This job has just really made me mature and...

got a new person out of me, like, I've actually changed.

I'm not the same person that I used to be at the start of the site.

I'm more a man than a boy now.

I was just a boy when I started the site.

Steven's Commonwealth job is coming to an end.

His future is once again looking uncertain.

I didn't think I would make it this far, to be honest,

but I've really enjoyed myself and, like, I've learned

and gained a lot of experience out of this job.

They've given me the chance that most people don't get in life,

and that, and they've gave me a great opportunity.

Hopefully I can take it at the end of this job and move on with them.

As work all around the area gathers pace,

Darren remains badly shaken by his brother's murder.

He's no' got a straight head now. His head's no clear.

He's no' as...aye, focused,

that's it, as he used to be.

He's no' the same person at all. To be honest, that's my opinion.

I don't know if other people notice that.

But I notice it.

I think he's just heartbroken, isn't he, Amanda? Just heartbroken.

They've named their seventh child Brian

in memory of Darren's brother.

See, any time you think about it, you don't believe it.

It's as if he's in the jail. Brian was always in the jail.

You were used to not seeing him in long spaces of time...

but you always knew he was there, but...

That's what makes it I think a wee bit...a bit easier,

not seeing him for such a long time,

because sometimes you had spells of that.

It's May 2012.

Glaswegians are voting in the council elections.

And there is a new name on the ballot paper.

Local hero Yvonne storms in with the second-highest votes in her ward.

I think what made me eventually stand was the suspicion that...

hang on there now, not everybody's as passionate

about this area as I am, and I think that's maybe the mistake

we made, thinking that other people cared about the ward

the way I did, that they took it as personal as I did, and they

were willing to give it 110% the way I did.

She's had to let go of the community ownership idea.

Instead, she's set her sights on a community centre with a difference.

A one-stop shop with everything from a GP to a nursery.

So I suppose for me now the gloves are off and it's time for me

and Councillor Redmond, the top of the agenda is legacy

for the areas, in particular delivering the hub for Dalmarnock,

because that's what we've been talking about for the last five year.

Yvonne is now a councillor

with an office in one of Glasgow's most iconic buildings,

the City Chambers.

Who'd have thought I'd have ended up here? It's a gorgeous building.

Apparently the staircase is really famous as well,

because I think the Vatican's

got one staircase, but I think we've got one, two, three. We've got three.

So I'm told.

Hello.

SHE LAUGHS Morning.

Just talking about how beautiful this building is.

Do you know any more of the history?

I think this is the kind of interior they were

looking for in the new community hub.

Aye, be fantastic, wouldn't it? You running...

He's going back to the constituency just now, back to the board.

See you later. Councillor Redmond. Old hand at it.

"Sir Thomas Dunlop Fart."

It's Bart, somebody's scribbled it out.

SHE LAUGHS

It still doesn't feel real, if you know what I'm saying.

I still don't quite believe. Maybe the penny's not dropped yet, I don't know. Erm...

I feel a fake.

Do you understand? I don't know.

But I'm in here to do a job and I'm very aware of that,

and when I look round at them I know why I'm here,

because I've got people in the East End who are living in poverty.

The gap between them and them is huge,

and I'm here in the middle trying to breach it, I suppose, I don't know.

But, come on, it's lovely, isn't it?

Today, Darren's oldest, Cameron, is facing a rite of passage.

The end of primary school.

CHILDREN SHOUT

Cameron really will be leaving all her friends behind.

-I've wrote "from all the dinner ladies", darling.

-There you are.

Good luck. Good luck to you. Where are you going to?

Kelvinside.

-Oh, Kelvinside.

-Oooh!

-Oooh!

Don't be going by us!

The family are using the compensation from the shops

to pay for Cameron to go to one of Glasgow's top private schools.

I'm sure it's every mum and dad's dream,

getting weans sent to a private school.

Obviously, I think, Steve, the education, the way your weans

are educated, has a...a benefit on the lifestyle, kind of thing.

A key factor in it.

Why is everybody grieving? We're meant to be happy.

-Cameron, you are having a wee cry there.

-No.

LAUGHTER

Calum's life is changing too.

Recently his mum asked his dad to get more involved in Calum's life.

Calum senior's now back on the scene,

this time hopefully for good.

-Dad?

-What?

-This wee worm won't go on my hook.

Oh, I'll be all snagged now.

Are you getting the hang of it?

He's not got any patience, but...

See? I told you this bit was pants.

See now, my dad,

and he's doing more stuff for me and that,

so, well, no' more, but he's, like, he's took me fishing

and just wants to do a lot more stuff.

For dad Calum, it's the fresh start he's been wanting for a long time.

Best thing I've ever done.

I was on the street for a long time

and tend to make more screw-ups than good moves,

you know what I mean? So...

I'm just glad I'm back.

And that's me back for good.

BAND PLAYS

To celebrate Dad's return, Calum's mum invites him

to one of the big events in the East End calendar,

the annual Orange Walk.

If we do get split up, make a meeting point.

You go into town.

Glasgow's controversial marching season falls between April and August.

Hello! What a fucking day, eh?

Tens of thousands parade across the city

to mark the defeat of the deposed Catholic king by the

Protestant William of Orange, in the late 1600s in Ireland.

Glasgow has over 300 parades a year,

more than Londonderry and Belfast combined.

-OVER PA:

-In this ever-increasing multicultural

and anti-cultural society,

we call upon the Kirk to stand up for our Protestant heritage

and speak with much greater conviction

and authority for the Protestant people of Scotland.

Dalmarnock is having to change with the times,

but some of the old ways remain.

A violent dispute with neighbours has left Calum

and his family feeling threatened.

Some people you just cannae trust any more what you used to be able

to trust, so I think we might be, I don't know, we might be moving.

In Edinburgh, Brian's murder trial is nearing an end.

NEWSREADER: Two brothers have admitted murdering a man

and dumping his burned body near a bridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow.

The remains of Brian Faulds were found near Dalmarnock Bridge

in September last year.

Paul Christie, who's 29,

and his 27-year-old brother Adam pleaded guilty

to murdering Mr Faulds at a flat in Dalmarnock Road last September.

It's been ten months since Brian's death.

I let myself go for a while there.

That's just what happens, you know.

Wisnae thinking about anything...

..but revenge, obviously.

But that's me back on top.

Got my bar back up.

-Fit again.

-HE LAUGHS

You ready? I bet you cannae touch the fence.

The London Olympic 2012, go!

With his life getting back on track, Darren takes his seven kids

to the capital to experience Olympic Games fever.

Have a lovely day!

Same to you. Cheers.

Oh, it's beautiful, isn't it?

Fucking massive, an' all.

Come on.

Amanda.

Fuck.

Just let him climb, fuck 'em.

Smile!

There we go.

Right, come on down now.

Look at that, they're wet, they're soaking, they're black and they're loving it.

Up the road where we come from, all you hear is them

going on about Spain.

Don't know what they're fucking missing down here, I tell you.

It's now less than two years to the Commonwealth Games.

CHEERING

And in Glasgow, the official mascot, Clyde,

a flying thistle man, makes his debut.

Over in the East End, the Athletes' Village is coming on apace.

Across the road, the velodrome

and sports arena are bang on target for the grand opening.

And down at the community centre, Councillors George and Yvonne

have had some good news.

You all right, darlin'?

The Games' organisers have agreed to a proposal, put forward

by Yvonne, to build a new community centre and a play park.

It will be used during the Games as a welcome centre.

It'll be unique in Scotland.

There'll not be a community campus like this.

Owned, managed, every brick and the ground will be owned

and managed by local people. It's the first true community asset

and legacy asset for local people.

I think we've been very fortunate to be able to keep the community together,

where, you know,

the community centre, I think, has been critical for that.

Did I think it was going to be as grand as that five year ago?

No, I thought we're just going to get a wee community centre. And I was happy with that.

But now we're getting more ambitious and getting greedy

and we demand it, and we so truly deserve it.

And this will be a wow building.

Wow. And local people will manage and own it, and then,

when they're all employed, and everything's good

in Dalmarnock post-Games, I can say I've done my job.

I've got my exit strategy.

We'll lift Dalmarnock out of the indexes of mass deprivation

and I can move on to help some other area.

That's the way I see it.

It's August 2012, and Darren's oldest daughter

Cameron's first day at secondary school.

-MUM:

-It's seven o'clock. Come on.

Cameron's going to one of Scotland's top private schools

in Glasgow's West End, paid for by the compensation from the shops.

Nervous?

She's going to a different school than all her friends

and she's going to get a good education.

I want to go to that school

to get a good education and not just secondary school.

-Feel better now?

-Yes.

Amanda's school run takes her through Glasgow's affluent West End.

I'd love to stay up here.

So I would.

Different life, isn't it?

I used to love Dalmarnock and do you know what? Honestly, I hate it now.

That's the truth of the matter.

I was happy where I was and I didnae think I'd ever want to move.

But over the last few year, I've been desperate to get out of it.

Everybody you knew moved out, plus when that happened to Brian,

that made it even more desperate to get out.

Who'd want to hang about somewhere after that?

In the city centre,

engineering assistant Steven has also landed on his feet.

Let's go.

Thanks to his experience on the velodrome site,

Steven's been given the chance to work on another landmark building.

It's a different project altogether than what the velodrome was.

Different set-up and all that,

different system of working. It's really interesting, so it is.

Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1896,

Glasgow's School of Art is getting a 21st-century update.

Steven's dreams of a career as an engineer are one step closer.

I start college in September.

I'm doing the NC course in civil engineering.

So I'm looking forward to it.

It's just happening so fast.

And it's come so early and I wasn't expecting any of it at all, but...

to be honest, I'm happy that it's happening this fast.

Just to gain as much experience as I can.

Hopefully progress in life and...

I'm happy right now and that's the way I like it.

Back in the East End, the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

and Emirates Arena are finally open for business.

CHEERING

CHILDREN: Three, two, one!

OPEN!

CHEERING

Two years ago, this was just a muddy field.

Now it's a world-class stadium.

But it's a place Calum is unlikely to ever visit.

What do you think about leaving, then?

It's good.

The place is rubbish so... I'm not missing anything.

Since the fallout with some locals, the family no longer feel safe

and they're leaving the area for good.

CALUM SENIOR: You dae know this is the most stressful time

in any cunt's life?

-You dae know that, don't you?

-Nah, it's smashing.

I'm well enjoying it.

And finally, nearly 26 months since its due date,

the last tenement in Dalmarnock is knocked down to make way

for the Athletes' Village.

Heartbreaking. Eye-watering.

Seeing it all.

The heart of Dalmarnock, all away, just like that.

Whoa!

Hoo-hoo!

Just to think, Steve,

my grandad Faulds

stood on that corner,

with a roll-up, a can of supie

and a walking stick... for 30 year,

smacking every cunt that walked past with his walking stick.

Whoa!

Fuck's sake, Jimmy!

All it needs is autographing.

I'll give it mine.

Next time, in the final episode of Commonwealth City...

..ever the entrepreneur, Darren takes over Dalmarnock's last pub...

Gonnae admire the view... where the pounds are coming.

..Yvonne's big dream hits a brick wall...

I actually believed that people would be tripping over

themselves to assist us.

..and local lad David turns his life around

and hopes to buy into Dalmarnock's future.

Nice, innit?

The idea of me buying my own house in Dalmarnock is me...

buying my stake in this community.