Episode 3 Commonwealth City

This programme contains very strong language

The host for the 2014 Commonwealth Games will be Glasgow.

CHEERING

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 have had a multimillion pound make-over.

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

Look, that's where Gran's house used to be.

For the last four years we've followed

the people of Dalmarnock in Glasgow's East End...

..to see what happens when the Games come to town.

As work on the Games heads into its final lap it's creating big opportunities.

I'd like to be there, at the front of the Games.

I want to be saying I 've taken part in Glasgow 2014.

New housing.

When will I get one of those new houses?

And a chance to make big bucks.

Look at this. Got to admire the view where the pounds are coming.

With Scotland's largest ever sporting event

just around the corner, what will be the legacy for this community?

Other people who are going to stage Games will come and say

what's in it for the community? And they can point to Glasgow, they can

point to Dalmarnock and say, there you go, they created their own.

CHEERING

That velodrome will be turned into a bingo hall after the Games.

It'll be called the Chris Hoy Bingodrome.

January 2013, just a year and a half to the Games.

Four miles from Glasgow city centre in the East End, is Dalmarnock,

where the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and Emirates Arena have just opened.

It's all coming together now, you know.

This is where you see it all happening.

It's really, really taken off, so it is.

Come on, do your job!

Behind the hoardings a new village for 6,500 athletes is taking shape.

Despite over £1 billion being spent in the area so far,

this half square mile still remains one of the UK's most deprived areas.

And with an ever shrinking population,

a quarter of what it once was in its heyday,

the community are counting down the days until the Games.

Let the Games begin.

Let the two weeks go as best as they can, but after that, let people

just get back to a bit of normality and get on with their lives.

Like a number of people in the area I'm Commonwealth Games-ed out.

In the centre of Dalmarnock live the Faulds family -

mum, Amanda, and seven kids.

BABY SCREAMS

INTERVIEWER: How old is he now?

Um... He just turned one. No, wait...

With so many siblings it can be hard for eldest Cameron to keep track.

I think he's one. Aye, he just turned one.

Oh, she's actually letting you do it!

Across the road works dad, Darren, Dalmanock's local entrepreneur.

-That's fine. Right. Nae bother.

-See you later.

-See you later.

Dalmarnock's my homeland, my father's father's father's

father's always been from here and I've always taken pride in that.

Two years earlier, Darren was forced to shut his two shops

and cafe to make way for the Athletes' Village.

The end of a great era, in the history of Dalmarnock.

But there was an upside.

The compensation helped pay for Cameron to enrol

at one of Glasgow's top private schools.

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

getting their weans sent to a private school.

Finally, after two years lying empty,

Darren's shops and Dalmarnock's last tenement were demolished.

Heartbreaking. Eye watering...

..seeing it all.

Ohhh!

Right, ladies, come on, we'll do this together.

Now he's running a temporary shop.

He's just heard the council's plans for the new Dalmarnock.

It's the stupidest thing to do.

For three year practically, not a fucking shop, nothing.

Pulled that building down, destroyed the shops,

left it for two or three year, and they announce

that they're going to rebuild the shops here, after the Games go.

There's nothing you can do.

Once they've made the decision it's made and that's it.

They're not interested in the likes of us. Couldn't care less.

I know, they just pulled the plug, full steam ahead, who gives a fuck?

I've been born here. I mean, for God's sake.

All your life, haven't you?

72. I was born and bred here.

-The Games, I wish we'd never got them.

-So do I.

-That's it.

-We're left with nothing.

-That's it.

Commonwealth Games - they're not for us.

HE CHUCKLES

Next door, works community centre manager

and fellow East Ender, Yvonne Kucuk.

I love the fact that the place I was born in, where the

majority of my family live in, is going to benefit out of the Games.

Last year Yvonne became councillor for Glasgow's Calton Ward,

which includes Dalmarnock and the area she grew up in, the Barras.

As a 16-year-old, I had a stall in the Barras market.

Most people here

came from families who earned their living from the Barras,

but over the last few years, the Barras in particular

fell into decline, so I was delighted to become the elected member.

Yvonne's old stomping ground is on the main road

to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and Emirates Arena.

At the heart of the Barras, the world famous Barrowland.

My mammy, her sisters, they all danced there.

My daddy danced there, it's where they met I think.

In 2010, Yvonne found out the council were going to demolish

her community centre, but had no plans to build a new one.

Wee Dalmarnock, who's ignored, trampled on, jumped on top of,

has to fix it itself.

She tried to drum up support.

What we're saying here 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.

But after two years of getting nowhere, Yvonne decided

if you can't beat them, join them, and became a councillor.

Who'd have thought I'd have ended up here?

I feel a fake. Do you understand?

I don't know...

Now in 2013, with barely a year and a half to the Games,

there's still no plans for a new community centre.

This is a small community organisation, with big hopes

and aspirations, obviously, because it's hosting the Games,

and you think, just because things are the right thing to do, they

should be easy, but not everybody's got that perception.

Yvonne is now wrestling with the re-mapping of Dalmarnock.

The main road through Springfield Road,

previously the heart of the area,

was Dalmarnock's Community Centre with shops beside it.

Now the shops have been demolished,

the new Athletes' Village dominates one side of the road.

And at the top of the road is the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and Emirates Arena.

But there's an available plot of land in front of the Emirates Arena,

which Yvonne thinks provides the perfect solution.

Tonight she wants to sell her idea to the locals

so she's called a meeting at the community centre.

Now, look at all that lying empty.

Looking at the big velodrome, big new road, the big car park

in front of the velodrome, the new Athletes' Village.

It's fucking bollocks. Look, nae a fucking stone turned in it.

Yvonne's idea involves Glasgow-based developer Kevin Fawcett,

who's hoping to build a £44 million hotel

and retail development on this plot.

He's offering Yvonne a slice of the pie.

Kevin approached us, says, "Look, I hear you're having a bit

"of an issue in finding a location, I have an option to buy this land."

It's the ideal location for her dream community centre,

complete with a doctor's surgery and a nursery.

For this community, who has been at the mercy of the Games

and the preparation for the Games for the past five years,

I think they're due it.

I think they're due the legacy, I think they're well overdue it.

We've negotiated 375 new jobs,

guaranteed interviews, for any person in this room who wants to work.

We're going to put in training for anybody that wants trained,

that's looking to work in the hotel or the retail development

that's going to come off the back of that.

We would like to be sited right in the heart of the action.

INDISTINCT OBJECTION

But the community isn't as taken with the new location as Yvonne is.

Aye, see if you want to show all us where you want the centre,

-ask the people that stay in Dalmarnock.

-Yes!

-I'm 80 and I'm not going to go away up to there.

-Exactly!

CHEERING

For many, the community centre represents

the heart of the old Dalmarnock.

A feeling which local boy David shares.

The problem is, right, a few years ago there was a lot of land deals

made in Dalmarnock. All the land has been sold away, this is what's

happened. It's not in Glasgow City Council's hands, so we've no land.

All the land's in private developers' land. The only land

we can get our hands on is the land up that road. There's no other land.

If we don't take that land, we're blown out the water.

No community centre.

Yvonne and David now have an uphill battle to persuade

the community to agree to the move beside the Emirates Arena.

Back in 2010, David Stewart was 19 and heading in the wrong direction.

-You ready?

-I'm ready.

Right, I think the Commonwealth Games is

one of the best things to happen to this community.

Fucking...

They're building it up from a decrepit..shithole to a nice area.

LAUGHTER

Growing up in Dalmarnock, male teenagers have just

a 50-50 chance of making it to their 65th birthday,

due to factors like drugs, alcohol and violence.

Got a tag on me and all that, like a stopwatch.

-Show them.

-Want to see the tag?

She's like, "Aye," as well!

Possession and attempting to supply a class A drug,

attempted murder and a serious racial assault.

It was a close shave for David.

Unlike some of his peers, he managed to stay out of prison

and began volunteering at the community centre.

Yvonne became kind of a mentor, probably say she still is a mentor,

just now in terms of, you know, showing a positive route to take.

Now in 2013,

David is fighting for some Games legacy for his community.

People have lived here for generations.

Most people in this room have grew up here

and deserve a piece of what's coming, you know?

This is the benefits that we always...

In 2007 we said, "That's what we want." So we're taking that forward.

Across the road it's the construction site for

the Athletes' Village.

It's being built right on the banks of the River Clyde.

I swam in these waters.

I'm just glad my mum's not alive to kind of batter me

but I remember when I was a young boy, about 14 years old,

15 years old, swimming from one bank to the other.

One of the many behind the new Dalmarnock is Councillor George Redmond.

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.

Will we put it up on the wall somewhere?

George is now in his fourth term in office.

I've met Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, Prince Edward, Princess Anne,

I've met the Queen.

For a wee boy like me, in terms of the family

I grew up in, the person I would probably want to have met

in my life growing up would be the Queen, absolutely no

doubt about it, and I think to get to meet her was absolutely fantastic.

His ward includes Dalmarnock, where he was born and bred.

I think the best place for us to start would be the...

up at the Emirates Arena.

Just a few years ago, none of this really existed

but now starting to see a huge difference, you know.

We've got the Emirates Arena, £133 million.

Clyde Gateway Avenue, we're attracting new businesses in there.

This is the new train station, here, Steven.

It's things like that, on its own, £10 million,

it's investment in the area.

By and large it's went unnoticed.

People don't even appreciate it

because of the scale of change that's taken place.

Someone who has noticed is Dalmarnock's top entrepreneur,

Darren.

All right, Joe?

He's picked up the lease of the area's last remaining pub,

sited across the road from the new train station.

Despite over 25 pubs going out of business

every week in the UK, Darren reckons Dalmarnock's future is bright.

Come and admire the view, where the pounds are coming.

Look at this, look.

150 car park spaces before your very eyes,

and there's the big office block, it's just ready to kick off.

The council has just announced that land beside Darren's pub,

which has laid derelict for years, is about to be transformed

into a prime business and commercial development.

The businesses of Dalmarnock are going to gain more out of this bit

than the Athletes' Village.

Money in the making.

For pub regular Stuart, it comes at a cost.

I love this area.

The more it brings into this area the better it's going to be.

It's just, I just don't like the thought of them

breaking up schemes, cos it was the best scheme in the world

and it's just gone downhill since they've started building,

but obviously it's going to pick up again.

And happy days.

It's definitely going to take off eventually.

And it'll be for the better, or they wouldn't be doing it all,

simple as that.

Changes every day, you pass by something that's there,

pass it the next day, it's away.

Blink your eyes and you'd fucking miss it.

Grandmother-of-four Margaret Jaconelli has felt

the effects of the transformation first-hand.

We're going to see where Granny's house was. Come on.

She's brought grandson Lucca to show him where she used to live,

before the land was cleared for the Athletes' Village.

Look, that's where Gran's house used to be.

See it? Where the car park is.

When you were a wee baby, you used to come to me and stay.

Yes. Good memories.

And it's quite sad to see that they've not built anything here

where we used to stay. You know what I mean?

They've taken it down for a car park.

When three-year-old Lucca was only a few months old,

Margaret was in the midst of a forced eviction.

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 not letting them away with it.

The city council had served a compulsory purchase order,

originally for £30,000.

But the family refused to leave.

Stand back from the door, please.

YELLING

Finally, 20 months after eviction,

Margaret and the council agreed compensation of £85,000.

It's now March 2013.

Since her eviction two years ago, Margaret has been fighting

for the right to legal aid in compulsory purchase.

She's taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Mike Dailly, my solicitor, he's trying to get us a date

so that we can go forward and that we know what's happening.

Just trying to get a fair trial.

The thing that worries me is a lot of people seem to think

that you're just some old greedy granny

trying to get a few quid out of the council

but you've got quite a lot of support and I don't think a lot of people know that.

Yeah, I think it's because you are all close and I get

the strength that you're helping me, because if I didn't have you and my

family, I would have nobody, and I probably would have just go away

into a wee shell, like everybody else and not go on fighting.

People think regeneration is great. They don't realise it's clearances,

and what they do is they come in and they clear the areas out, and then

the speculators and the developers come in and buy all the land.

At the University of Glasgow, Dr Libby Porter,

an expert in regeneration, has taken a keen interest in Margaret's situation.

Cos that's a pretty appalling result

and her story is a particularly hair-raising one, in my view,

but it's a fairly kind of widespread phenomenon, to be honest.

So CPO is the power that allows government authorities

like Glasgow City Council

to acquire people's properties in order to add them together,

make a bigger title, and make that a developable piece of land.

With more land needed, the council also had to deal with private

developers, including one based in America.

He purchased it for £45,000 in 1988

and he sells it to council for £5.4 million.

This a 2.5 hectare piece of land, it's relatively small.

And we're talking about an increase in land value...

price for land that is... mind-boggling.

It's a 12,000% increase in 20 years.

And I just don't see how it can be considered fair that those kinds

of land deals are going on to develop something that's

supposed to be, is lauded to be, about social and economic

regeneration for this particular community.

What it seems to me to be about is big developers

and large land investment companies making enormous amounts

of money on the back of this so-called regeneration scheme.

When Dalmarnock was first proposed as the site for the Athletes' Village and Velodrome,

many rushed in to buy land hoping to make a quick profit.

Caught in the middle of this game of land Monopoly

is Dalmarnock community centre.

The £44 million development which Yvonne

wanted the new community centre to be part of, has collapsed.

So we're still scraping about, looking for a piece of land

and hopefully trying to get it built before next year.

In time for the Games.

She's feeding me. I'm getting fed.

-Two sugars and milk.

-Yes, thank you, my darling.

After years of setbacks, time is now running out.

I actually believed that people would be tripping over themselves to assist us.

No, actually over-compensating for what's happened here,

and I find that that's not there.

And I think that's sad.

OK, the regeneration is vitally important, nobody could doubt that.

We all welcome that, but I think a bit more thought about

the consequences of displacement should have been looked at.

With just 15 months to go till the Games,

useable land is scarce, even if it doesn't look like it.

Up until the 1970s, the area thrived with factories,

heavy engineering and gas works employing many locals.

CHEERING

When the industries left, much of the land was contaminated,

leaving Dalmarnock with Scotland's largest concentration

of derelict industrial land.

The plot Yvonne wanted to build on is now subject to

a legal dispute about whether or not the land is contaminated.

With the doctors' surgery being demolished today and the centre

and play park scheduled for the next couple of weeks,

Yvonne has to find an alternative site

for the community centre urgently.

We are in the way.

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

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

It does get you down, but every day you just say, that's it, gloves on,

back in there, ding-ding. I'm into about round 222 now,

do you know what I'm saying, but I've not gave up yet.

It's summer 2013

and today officials from Team Nigeria are visiting Glasgow.

We call it the Armadillo.

You'll when you see it, it's very... a very particular shape.

-This is the Hydro. Brand-new facility.

-Brand-new?

-yes.

Nigeria is just one of the 70 countries competing next year.

But for the Games organisers, it's especially significant.

This will be the venue for both artistic and rhythmic gymnastics.

Back in 2007, Abuja,

capital of Nigeria, was Glasgow's rival to host the Games.

Well done!

It'll be opened in August of this year and the first concert

to take place is the famous Scottish musician Rod Stewart.

He's old now, Rod Stewart.

He's still going, he's still going strong.

We used to call this the Medal Factory. Medal Factory.

From what we have seen the standard is very high,

the quality of the project is quite high too,

and the progress is at 75%, which is very encouraging.

POWER DRILL WHIRRS NEARBY Hang on a minute.

Hang on a minute, man.

Hallelujah.

Hang on a minute, man. OK. DRILLING STOPS

I can assure you, we're going back home happy and positive,

positively,

and we'll continue to improve in our preparedness. Thank you.

This is a great legacy of the Games and it's named after Sir Chris Hoy,

very famous Olympian, medal-winning athlete

for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games

and also the Olympic Games for Great Britain.

A multi-use venue.

It is something that's available to use by the general public

which is really excellent,

especially as this is the first indoor velodrome

like this in Scotland.

Och, ya bastard!

It's been months since the velodrome opened,

but one of Dalmarnock's keenest cyclists, Bonesy,

is yet to try it out.

-Not so good.

-Fuck the can, right, fuck the can, right.

Plenty of time without the can.

See if you got me a bit earlier!

That's us settled now, know what I mean?

I'm gonna do a wee burly, right?

How long have you been here?

All my life. Brilliant. Best place in Glasgow.

He's at the next Olympics.

Aye, I'll be the next, er, Chris Hoy.

Where's Bonesy?

Recently Bonesy and his brother Chas found some old home movies

of Dalmarnock in the 1960s.

Hey, Stevie boy!

This is rare.

There's my boxer shorts out the back!

Aye!

ALL SPEAK AT ONCE

Are we going to watch this or shout at the telly?

-Malky.

-There's wee Malky there, with the hair. Remember?

-Big Dan.

-Danny.

-Drew.

-Johnny boy.

-Johnny boy there, aye.

Back then the place was thriving, with over 10,000 residents,

and shops and jobs on every corner.

Look how busy it is then!

-That's them all going to bingo.

-This the woman my ma knows.

-Mrs Hunter.

That's her with the red coat on. Look.

That's all gone now, Stevie.

All that's all gone now. What you're seeing there.

Your ma's house got knocked down, my ma's house got knocked down.

See if we could turn the clock back the now and, like...

I'd rather be in those days than where we are here, the now.

Then you could leave your door open, know what I mean? Now you can't.

Go back 20 year, 30 year, whatever -

even fucking 50 year, 100 years -

to me, Dalmarnock was always a luxury place to stay in.

Dalmarnock has changed now and it's all these new houses getting built.

See everybody that stayed down here,

they'll never get a flat back in there.

See the only way you'll get a house in there if we private-let it.

Or buy one. None of us have got the money to buy one.

The people of Dalmarnock's not benefiting out of this.

Bonesy's not as taken with the past as the others.

Fuck that carry on, they're all shouting they preferred it.

No, fuck that. You know what I mean?

Every cunt running about fucking starving.

All that carry on.

-Not for you, then?

-Never seen one can of beer, did you?

Never seen one can of beer. Not one Budweiser.

Across the road is Dalmarnock's future.

After the Games the Athletes' Village will be

converted into 700 new homes,

400 of which are for social housing.

Councillor George, who grew up here in the 1960s,

is hoping this will bring back the community he once knew.

It is the most modern,

environmentally friendly housing development

ever assembled in the United Kingdom.

You know, and we're very, very proud of that,

and we're very proud that people who live and have been brought up

in Dalmarnock will get the opportunity to live here

and actually experience it.

When the boards come down,

and the houses are there for people to see,

and people from the area will say - "There's my new house."

"That's the house that I'm going to be living in,

"I'm going to be bringing up my kids."

You know, and that, to me, is really what it's all about.

Getting to 2015, when these houses will be filled,

and families will be, you know, living there,

they'll be out their windows shouting on their kids to, to behave

or come up for their dinner.

George is working behind the scenes to bring back a primary school.

There's going to be hundreds of kids here living in the area

and obviously looking for a school,

which will give them that platform to be successful in their life.

And that's the real joy that I will have that,

getting from the vision of creating a new neighbourhood

to actually seeing it complete and finished and people enjoying it.

Across the road, the community centre is now closing.

But there's been a major breakthrough.

At the very last minute Glasgow City Council have found them some land.

CLAPPING

Right, so tell me, you guys must be walking on air now.

Yes, we are. I am anyway, aye. It's been five years of hard work,

and grim determination but we've got it.

The council are now going to squeeze them onto a new plot of land.

Right next to the Emirates Arena.

We've finally found a home, the best possible location,

it's right there, on the thoroughfare,

right in the heart of a new area,

the new houses, the velodrome is our neighbour, so we're delighted.

It seemed to be a bit slower than was necessary.

-But, ultimately...

-A bit slower?!

-A wee bit slower.

Six years since the announcement. A bit slow.

-But the council works in a kind of...

-Mysterious ways!

-It's that big tanker, trying to pull it around.

-It's a big beastie.

But I think they always knew that, or the senior officers knew,

including the director, that unless we had something signed and agreed,

legally binding, then, you know, we'd still be in a community centre...

With nae electricity.

Yes, probably no electricity!

..but we'd still be in there with the generators

-and the happy faces and...

-Sleeping bags.

-Mm-hm.

The confidence is so high in the community just now

that the hopes and aspirations are being achieved.

Young people like David Stewart - totally outstanding -

his commitment for this community.

Down, down... Down or I'll call your daddy.

That's it, your daddy's getting phoned.

You look back five years ago,

just after the Games announcement where David was,

and what his life was and his family background,

they've actually used the catalyst of the Games

to springboard to actually better their life.

They're not just achieving, they're over-achieving -

so that's something I'm immensely proud of.

Following in Yvonne's footsteps,

David has just got a place at the University of Glasgow

to study Community Development.

He's the first of his family to get into further education.

It's amazing. Couple of year and I'll have a degree.

A lot of them don't start uni until they're 18 anyway.

-It's all right.

-Doing it at that age will have an impact on your life.

Cos it's universities that'll determine your fate.

A lot of them go to big schools, or private schools,

to get the highers to get to fucking uni, you know what I mean?

Darren's daughter Cameron is coming to the end of her first year

at one of Glasgow's top private schools.

-What do you want Cameron to do?

-Sorry, bro?

Cameron, what's she thinking about doing when she's older?

I don't know. I'm just going to let my lassie.. She's loving it

at school, you know. And hopefully just...

she'll make the right decision.

Aye, to go somewhere. Go somewhere good.

-That school can do more for them...

-Definitely!

..than I could ever imagine, you know.

I shall unceremoniously try to climb up here

with the high heels on.

Oh, dear!

Plans for the new community centre are now under way,

but it's hard to say goodbye to the old.

Right. The old reception.

Oh, my God, listen to it echoing, look! Wow.

Oh, mam and dad - all squeezed in.

30 years, aye? 30 years.

I just think it's sad.

David and development manager William share the moment.

Great events -

the Christmas parties, the LEGENDARY Christmas parties.

Pensioners all drunk, wouldn't go home.

-Birthdays, funerals...

-Birthdays, funerals... God, aye.

The future's secure, I suppose,

but it's just been one massive struggle.

And it shouldn't have been this hard.

Demolition for the centre and play park

is scheduled for the start of the school holidays.

In the meantime, the community centre will move round the corner

into an old tenement.

You have to do this, look!

At the top of the road, Bonesy and friends and family

are about to try something for the first time.

They live two minutes from the velodrome,

but until today, it's been a world away.

Look at the height of it!

See the treadmills up there?

Yep. Top man.

Mr Hoy.

Did you get that bit, aye?

HE CHUCKLES

Naebody behind us, no?

HE CHUCKLES

Is there a bar round here?

HE CHEERS

Forgetting to turn the legs!

The track is over 250m long,

and made of specially imported Siberian pine.

It's dodgy up there, innit?

The bikes have no brakes.

Oh. Oh, my.

There's a 44-degree incline.

Going to have a wee breather, right?

And cyclists hit speeds that would bring a smile to any face.

Pedal!

Need to be going faster than that!

HE SPLUTTERS

MAN LAUGHS

See the next time you come see us, he'll get the stabilisers on.

It's easy.

It's 6.00am,

and Darren is opening Dalmarnock's first proper shop

in over three years.

How you doing?

You don't want to go there.

He's leasing a new shop in addition to the pub.

Slowly, he's rebuilding his empire.

HORN BEEPS

I sit here every morning,

watching the sun coming up over the Athletes' Village.

It's beautiful. Right there, you see it.

Beginning of a new era.

Hey, Margaret.

His shop is a few minutes' walk

from the entrance to the new Athletes' Village.

With thousands of people moving here after the Games,

Darren is hoping for some of the footfall.

He's moved the business just in time.

The old Dalmarnock is now a wasteland.

Lot more life down here, obviously.

-MAN:

-So you're happy?

-Aye. Lot happier.

Fucking two streets away, it's like a ghost town up there.

It's September 2013, just ten months to the Games.

Along with 50,000 other hopefuls,

David applied to be a volunteer, and today is his big interview.

I think that many people applied that you need to go through

the selection process just to even to be a volunteer, but...

-Might be a lucky haircut.

-Aye.

-Want some gel?

-No, that's fine.

-You sure?

-It's fine.

Velodrome - I'd love to be in there, volunteering.

Welcoming people and actually speaking to people who...who come.

About the fact that we've got a new community facility,

the new play park, and actually seeing, you know,

what we've benefited from it, but tell them the truth, you know?

Tell people the truth that, aye, there was problems.

Hopefully everybody comes here.

But to say, you know, but in the end,

you know, the community, parts of the community, pulled together.

I've come here to tell them that I want...

I want to be a volunteer, and I deserve to be a volunteer,

and I'm going to convince them that I'll be a volunteer.

It's December, and the community centre is being ripped down.

It's a shame, seeing it.

End of an era.

I think that's it - the old Dalmarnock, all away.

Over nine days, demolition work continues

from early morning till late afternoon, including weekends,

right across the road from Darren's house.

BOY SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY

LOUD MACHINERY

Look out there. There's lots of stuff out there.

PEOPLE CHATTER

Meanwhile, in the Emirates Arena, it's a big moment for Yvonne.

Glasgow City Council's leader is launching

the start of work on Dalmarnock's £5 million community hub.

The point of today

is to focus very much on the local community here in Dalmarnock.

You've done it. You've stuck with it.

You've seen it through all the tough times.

I want to pay a special tribute when it comes to tenacity

to my colleague and friend, Councillor Yvonne Kucuk.

APPLAUSE

Yvonne's actually a difficult woman to say no to.

LAUGHTER

And the reason that it's so difficult to say no to her

is because she doesn't ask on her own behalf, so well done.

Well done to George.

I know that you would want me to give the final thanks

to the people of Dalmarnock.

Well done, one and all.

But this won't just be a community centre.

Alongside will be a cafe, doctors' surgery,

chemist and nursery,

bringing nearly 60 new jobs to the area.

For Yvonne, it's the culmination of a 7-year struggle.

ALL CHEER

-YVONNE:

-I'm immensely proud of the work we've done,

and hopefully that the work that we do now

brings benefits that's not going to just last

for the 11 days of sport,

that's going to last for... for years after that.

Still can't believe it.

No believe it till I get the key and walk inside it and think,

"Oh, my God, this is ours. How did we get this?"

Building work will continue right up until the Games,

with Yvonne and the community taking ownership in early 2015.

With Christmas around the corner,

Darren is keen to get away from all the construction work.

Oh, look at this, eh?

-I've been in it before.

-Have you been in it before?

Today, it's a trip to the city centre,

from Dalmarnock's £12 million revamped train station.

Andy.

CHILDREN SING 'LET IT SNOW'

Here, Andy, Andy.

Get ready.

# Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

# When we finally kiss good night

# How I'll hate going out in the storm

# But if you'll really hold me tight

# All the way home I'll be warm

# The fire is slowly dying

# And, my dear, we're still goodbye-ing

# But as long as you love me so

# Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. #

# And have yourself a very merry Christmas now. #

As 2013 draws to a close,

the countdown to Scotland's big year begins.

A year that will include the Ryder Cup, the Referendum,

and the Commonwealth Games.

After nearly two years' construction work,

the Athletes' Village is unveiled.

With prices between £75-200,000,

they're higher than the average costs in Dalmarnock of £54,000.

Nice, isn't it? Unbelievable.

Just £250 will reserve a new home to move in after the Games.

It's crazy to think that they'll be sitting here for a year, empty.

Well, not empty but no...nobody'll be home.

David has his eye on the new housing scheme.

Good views to be looking out at other good properties,

when you're in your house.

The idea of me buying my own house in Dalmarnock

is me buying my stake in this community.

I've invested a lot of time, energy, enthusiasm,

commitment in this community.

I want to bring up my family in Dalmarnock

where they can use the facilities which I fought,

among other people, to make happen.

I mean, this is all a real opportunity for people to get...

get their own house in Dalmarnock,

because of obviously the scale of houses

that are being demolished and cleared away.

And it looks like people want to move here.

Within hours, nearly all the houses are snapped up,

with a third of buyers from the East End,

and the rest from Glasgow and the Central Belt.

People are going to be moving to Dalmarnock

who probably don't even know the area.

The biggest barrier might... might be a kind of class issue

in terms of, these people, you know, will have...

..probably, you know, successful careers and whatnot.

Careers, that's it - they'll have careers.

Whereas people in Dalmarnock, majority of them have got jobs.

A job and a career is a completely different thing.

Margaret has come to see her lawyer, Mike Dailly,

to hear news about her appeal

to the European Court of Human Rights,

made over three years ago.

Quite a few files here for you, Margaret.

I've got 12 drawers full of stuff.

Right, so...

..unfortunately, the application to the European Court of Human Rights

wasn't successful,

and the difficulty is - the way it works -

is you don't get told a reason.

There is no right of appeal.

I think you and I are obviously both incredibly disappointed about that.

The problem is, the European Court of Human Rights

considered that, well, you had been given compensation,

therefore what is the breach?

I think - what strikes me - is that

the way that compulsory purchase law worked in your case,

and obviously it's not just you, it's happened to other people.

No, I know.

But the fact that, you know, there is no availability

for legal aid, so ultimately, there's no equality of arms,

and you're faced against a big...

Effectively, it's like a corporate juggernaut, right?

-OK.

-That can't be right.

The way that the...the way that the system's working,

I don't think is...is fair.

So I guess there is that ultimate kind of question,

which is, when is it time to...?

-Finish.

-Yeah, when is it time to say enough...enough is enough?

Maybe I'm stubborn, right?

As I said to you before, I think I'm stubborn,

but I don't think anybody should be treated this way in Scotland.

I believe everybody should be treated fair.

And there's naebody better than anybody else.

Nae big companies should be better than the wee ordinary people.

We should all be treated the same,

and that's... that's all I've asked for.

And it's not about politics or anything,

it's about people getting treated equal,

and that's all I've asked for.

I know there's some place out there that can give me justice,

and that's why I keep on.

-So you're not giving up?

-No. I'll never give up.

Right, wee bits at a time. Here.

Right. Pick up your bits.

-Yay.

-Was that a good shot?

Margaret and Jack are now going to petition the Scottish Parliament.

They want anyone facing compulsory purchase in the future

to be entitled to legal aid.

When we tell people our story, people are appalled.

They cannae believe this happened in Scotland.

Naebody should ever have to experience that.

There needs to be somebody held accountable for what's happened,

and that's what keeps us going.

It's not as easy just to get on with your life

when you've had that sort of...

When you've had an injustice done, you know, there's something...

It wasn't an injustice.

-It was bloody horrific, what happened to us.

-Horrific.

We were wiped out, and the people of Dalmarnock,

the East End were wiped out.

Dalmarnock's a lost community.

And it'll never get rebuilt back again to the way it was.

Andy. Good boy. Look at that, eh?

HE LAUGHS

My wee boy, yeah?

At the other side of town, in the affluent West End,

Darren is picking up his daughter from school.

Here. Brian. Put that in.

Cameron is now in her second year.

Right, Andy, come on.

Love it.

Every time I'm up here getting the wean,

I greet when I need to go back home.

It's a better class of life. Different life up here.

DOOR BUZZES

-PIANO NOTES

-One and two. It's a bit less on the second.

Make sure it doesn't become one, one, two...plonk.

PLAYS NOTES

Yeah. Have a go. See if you can get that.

PLAYS CLASSICAL PIECE

Good.

I think my school's changed me.

Because everything seems different.

I don't really see anybody in Dalmarnock any more,

like any of my friends who were, like, primary school.

It's like two completely different lives that people live,

like, in Dalmarnock and here.

It's just completely different, so you can't, like, compare it so...

-I don't...

-Hey, look at that, eh?

HE LAUGHS

My boy.

-So how was it?

-Good.

-That's good. You enjoy it?

-Aye.

That's good. Let's go.

How is Anne?

Four miles away in Dalmarnock,

people from all over the UK are piling into the Emirates Arena.

Good morning, everyone!

Today it's the start of training for 15,000 volunteers,

known as "Clydesiders".

Thank you very, very much for putting up with the cold.

It won't be long now, I promise.

Do we have any singers here?

Including a successful local lad - David,

plucked from over 50,000 applicants.

I'd like to be at the front of the Games,

I'd like to be saying, you know, "I've taken part in Glasgow 2014."

We all heard the stories about London and people,

the games makers and stuff and how much they got from it

and how much enthusiasm they brought to the Games and stuff.

I want to be able to say that.

MUSIC: "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang

You guys are going to be what makes the 2014 Commonwealth Games tick.

Give us a cheer when it comes to you. Here we go!

CHEERING

# Celebrate good times, come on... #

For the volunteers, the unveiling of their uniform, specially

designed for the Glasgow weather.

# Celebrate good times, come on... #

It's a first taste of the excitement about to come.

Soon the eyes of the world will be on Dalmarnock.

So work on its community hub, on the side of the arena,

is going full pelt.

DRILLING

But David's impatient for the community to feel the benefits.

It's good to be involved in Dalmarnock because

there's a lot of things happening, but...

it's no real in terms of... None of this is actually done.

The community hub is still on site, it's not actually delivered.

The new play park is on site, it's not actually delivered.

So even though there's a lot of hype and excitement about, you know,

it still doesn't feel real.

We've kind of went backwards to go forwards.

But the Games are coming.

And it's only 100 days to go.

Over in Kelvingrove Art Gallery, in Glasgow's West End,

Yvonne and George and the great and good

have been invited to an exclusive event.

There's still work to be done, we know that, but up to date

it's been amazing. So tonight, have a night off, have a few laughs.

Today the design for the medals is unveiled.

APPLAUSE

Gorgeous. I think they're very Rennie Mackintosh, aren't they?

-Sorry.

-No touching it? Sorry.

-Sorry, no touching.

-Fabulous, aren't they?

-Yeah.

Me told.

I would like to have seen it more...

I don't know... Glasgow Green

or Kelvingrove Park or...

and opened up so everybody seen it together.

But that's just me.

I would have liked to have seen the kids in

seeing it and touching it and lifting it up. It's their Games.

But there is good news for the kids.

George's dream of bringing back a primary school to Dalmarnock

has just been approved.

This has been a long journey, been a lot of ups and downs, but

you know, it's like, if you believe in something,

and you believe in what you're doing,

you need that courage to stay, you know, stay the distance.

One thing we've got, we've got courage,

and we're willing to stay the distance.

This is only part of the regeneration of Dalmarnock,

this is only part of the new opportunities that people will get.

There's a long way to go.

This summer, the city will come alive.

Millions of tourists, athletes and spectators

will flock to the Dear Green Place.

The world will look in and have a wee look and I think we'll,

I think we'll do the city proud.

We'll throw one hell of a party, one hell of Games.

CHEERING

Definitely there's something unique about this city,

or unique about the people of this city.

There is nobody quite like us, I think.

Even with adversity, and all the troubles and all the barriers

and all the ills, we're all proud Glaswegians

and we all love this city.

For the last four years, we've been filming the community of Dalmarnock.

You've been asking me the same question for about five years, Stephen.

Witnessing people's lives go through ups...

THEY LAUGH

..and downs.

They forget people stay in here.

They've built a Berlin wall all the way round the area,

we cannae get out, we cannae get in.

From bulldozing the past...

..to unveiling the homes of the future.

Fucking magnificent, innit? What they've done.

It will be years before it's known if Scotland's largest sporting event

will create a lasting legacy for the city.

But for those living in the East End,

their new Dalmarnock has finally been born.