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0:00:07 > 0:00:09Ballysally, Coleraine.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11A community of close on 3,000 people has,
0:00:11 > 0:00:13like the rest of the country,
0:00:13 > 0:00:17been weathering the economic storm over the last year.
0:00:17 > 0:00:23This is the end of our time on the estate.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Emma has set herself a challenge.
0:00:56 > 0:01:01Five, four, three, two... Five...
0:01:02 > 0:01:03Am I the same colour yet?
0:01:05 > 0:01:09We're doing this for six weeks to try and train about how to box.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Her boxing debut is part of a fund-raiser for charity.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18I think it's one and a half minutes, three rounds.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21And then, whoever has the most face punches
0:01:21 > 0:01:23wins that fight.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Face punches. Yeah, you heard right.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29I just seem to be, like, getting addicted to the adrenalin rush
0:01:29 > 0:01:32and setting myself these crazy challenges.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34It makes life a wee bit more exciting.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'm not a "sit at home and watch TV" kind of person.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39I'm going to get fit to...
0:01:40 > 0:01:43I'm thinking like, you know what,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46when you're sitting there with all those people around you,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49I think adrenaline will kick in.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52And hopefully, I'll remember to keep my guard up
0:01:52 > 0:01:53and just keep going.
0:01:53 > 0:01:58Because if you stop, like, it's not going to be a good scene, is it?
0:02:01 > 0:02:06I definitely am nervous. I am nervous now.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23- Is that it there?- Aye, there.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25- How'll we get across? - Have to cross at the lights.
0:02:25 > 0:02:30Louise and her 11-year-old son are out shopping for a uniform.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Jordan's just about to start secondary school.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39Hi, we're just looking for a wee Coleraine College blazer.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42- Yes, are we needing a jumper at all? - A jumper.- Grand.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44- I'll get a wee jumper to put on him first.- All right.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Could you take this wee top off for me a wee second?
0:02:48 > 0:02:50It's just nice on you son.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56It's scary watching him
0:02:56 > 0:03:00in a big uniform rather than
0:03:00 > 0:03:02the wee primary school one.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Do you need PE kit or anything at all?
0:03:10 > 0:03:13- I'll leave that for another week. - No, you're grand.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18The uniform takes a large slice out of Louise's benefits.
0:03:18 > 0:03:23For the jumper and the blazer and everything could roughly be just under £100.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28But then adding the PE kit into it could make it round £150 to £180 or so.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33You get a grant but it doesn't cover everything, like.
0:03:33 > 0:03:38You get £78, that's supposed to buy PE kits, blazers, everything but it doesn't.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41You just have to take it out of your money every week.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Work it that way, you know. It's hard. But you get there.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46- HE WHISPERS - Shut up, you!
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Hey! Take them ones off.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53- Is that all you need then? - Aye, that's it for now.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Give me that in. All right?
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- Comes to 71.- That's grand.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04My God.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Scary money.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25I was about 15 when I met Noel.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- So I was.- I was 13.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Maybe 14, maybe I was younger actually.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38After 21 years of marriage, Noel and Mandy
0:04:38 > 0:04:43are still trying to work out the secret to domestic bliss.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Ups and downs just.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49You know, up and down.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51SHE LAUGHS
0:04:51 > 0:04:56Sometimes, it pisses me off living with a joiner and you can't get him to do anything,
0:04:56 > 0:05:01but then I just stop complaining and then he does it in his own time.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03He decided he was putting a shower in two years ago,
0:05:03 > 0:05:07so we got the enclosure and the shower and everything else.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10It's sitting there for two years but he just hasn't got it in yet.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12It'll be in before Christmas.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16What year, I don't know yet, haven't picked the year yet!
0:05:28 > 0:05:30It was pure nerve wracking.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33I done it in the living room and she wouldn't sit in the bloody seat.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36It was cracking me up, I wasn't going to do it at all then.
0:05:36 > 0:05:4123-year-old Kyle has just asked his 16-year-old girlfriend Annie to marry him.
0:05:41 > 0:05:46I didn't think it would happen so soon, so I didn't...
0:05:46 > 0:05:48And she said yes.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52I was watching TV one night and he got up with a big smile on his face
0:05:52 > 0:05:54and I was like, "Where are you going?"
0:05:54 > 0:05:55And I followed him in
0:05:55 > 0:05:58and he lost the head and said, "Go into the living room."
0:05:58 > 0:05:59I went into the living room
0:05:59 > 0:06:02and he came in and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04I didn't know what to say.
0:06:04 > 0:06:09I asked him about ten hundred times, was he taking he piss out of me.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12They're not rushing into tying the knot just yet.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16It'll happen in another 20 years.
0:06:16 > 0:06:1820, 25 years.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21I don't think we're just ready for marriage yet, like.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23But I'll give that a few years.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26It'll take a few years to save for it.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45- Hiya.- Hi.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Alcohol support worker Emma is back at work.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53She had to take some time off
0:06:53 > 0:06:57after one of her clients threatened to kill her.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59I think, you know, we dealt with it really well.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01But at the end of the day I had to say to myself,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05look, the project must go on, I suppose the show must go on.
0:07:05 > 0:07:06And you can't just stop.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10I've a job to do and you know, I'm not going to let other people suffer
0:07:10 > 0:07:12just because of the actions of one person.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15And I suppose everything got sorted out quite quickly, you know,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17the bail conditions were set in place,
0:07:17 > 0:07:20restraining orders put in place and I felt safe enough.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22But, at the time, when I got the messages,
0:07:22 > 0:07:24I was very frightened, of course.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27You know, I think it'd be inhuman of me to say I wasn't.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32The threat to her life jeopardised another life.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Around that time, I was about 10, 12 weeks pregnant,
0:07:35 > 0:07:37coming up to 12 weeks pregnant and I kind of thought,
0:07:37 > 0:07:41"Well, it's not just me I have to worry about now," you know.
0:07:41 > 0:07:47At the end of the day I'm not capable as I would have before
0:07:47 > 0:07:51if something was just to happen to... I don't know, I suppose, I just...
0:07:51 > 0:07:56It did make you feel more vulnerable because you were in a totally different situation.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Mandy's on her way to see daughter Tanya,
0:08:12 > 0:08:16who's just moved into her own council house on the estate.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20Just trying to get her settled in. She hasn't been well enough all week.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Tanya!
0:08:24 > 0:08:25- What?- Are you up?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Aaron, are you getting up?
0:08:28 > 0:08:33Her unemployed son Aaron sometimes stays over in Tanya's.
0:08:33 > 0:08:38It's five past now, or ten past, so it is.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43- I had a beer last night. - Oh, that's why he's lying in.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46A beer last night, so he's lying on a wee while.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49You go down in front of me.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Tanya has severe diabetes and epilepsy.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58She needs daily visits from a health worker.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01But Mum and Dad check up on her every day too.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Have you took any insulin this morning?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06- I've took them.- Right.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10- That's good this morning.- It is.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12The whole family worry about Tanya coping on her own.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14It's down, still...
0:09:14 > 0:09:19I'd lost my voice for a full year from last July.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22The stress maybe is calming itself down a wee bit
0:09:22 > 0:09:24since she's been a lot better.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Noel, he calls up... just keep an eye,
0:09:27 > 0:09:29you know, when I'm not there.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31He's very good too.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35Well, Aaron, what are you for doing the day?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43He needs to be doing something, I think.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47If he'd a wee job, even a wee part-time job or something,
0:09:47 > 0:09:49it would give him something to do.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52It's disheartening sometimes when you've no work and...
0:09:52 > 0:09:55You know, you get fed up, just.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59But then, there's no jobs really out there for young ones now.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Near enough everybody I know is out of work.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05There's hundreds in for interviews and things.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06It's hard to get a job.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09It's the same thing every day, you're doing the same thing.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11The same stuff's on the TV as well.
0:10:11 > 0:10:17Jeremy Kyle, flat to the mat.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Hi. I was just wanting to talk to someone
0:10:29 > 0:10:31about a decision made on my housing benefit claim.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Single mum Emma has just discovered
0:10:34 > 0:10:36the government has stopped paying her rent.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43I got a form last week to put in my last five pay stubs,
0:10:43 > 0:10:48which I did, and I got a letter back saying that I owe £200.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52How is that changed so much when I just got a letter saying
0:10:52 > 0:10:55that I was eligible less than, like, a few months ago?
0:10:55 > 0:10:59She's received a pay rise at her part-time job in a local cafe.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02But because she's earning an extra 30p an hour,
0:11:02 > 0:11:04she's no longer entitled to housing benefit.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06OK.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08All right, thanks. Bye.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12He was such a nice man though too.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15I didn't want to be like, "Yous are a bunch of idiots."
0:11:15 > 0:11:19And he's like, "No, sorry we don't appear to have that letter on file."
0:11:19 > 0:11:22And it's like, but I just sent it and yous just adjusted my claim.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24How do yous not have that letter?
0:11:24 > 0:11:25It's so annoying.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29I am contributing to, you know, society and my community and things
0:11:29 > 0:11:32I'm not just sitting at home saying, you know,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35give me free rent, give me a free house, you know,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38you'll pay my food and lodgings for me, or anything like that.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40I'm not saying that, like, I do want to work.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43And if they'd just stop putting up these friggin' barriers
0:11:43 > 0:11:46and frustrating me to make me want to just quit my job, like.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Get off!
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Now that he's engaged, Kyle's keener than ever to get a job.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07But there's not that many about.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12I'm constantly doing things about the house.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Just boredom really, sometimes.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20I've paint lying there, so I done the living room orange
0:12:20 > 0:12:24so now I have to change this orange to a different colour.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Purple this time.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31I'll do that wall first, I think, see what it's like.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39I've just started to change my life a wee bit.
0:12:39 > 0:12:44I've definitely settled down a bit, like, compared to what I used to be.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47I think I was about 19 or 20
0:12:47 > 0:12:50er...
0:12:50 > 0:12:55through depression and a personality disorder and stuff,
0:12:55 > 0:13:00I basically just wasn't happy with my life and I wanted it to end.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04And then, on more than one occasion I was near dead, like.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08The very first time, I tried to hang myself.
0:13:08 > 0:13:13I tried to kick the step ladder away from me.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16But instead of the step ladder kicking away from me,
0:13:16 > 0:13:19it just kind of slid along the ground.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22And then, I sort of was able to get it again, and then...
0:13:24 > 0:13:26I think, "Fuck that, that's too hard."
0:13:26 > 0:13:28There's no easy way out, like, so...
0:13:35 > 0:13:39The most frightening thing was whenever I self-harmed.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43And I hit an artery
0:13:43 > 0:13:47and I lost so many pints of blood, like.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50It was quite scary too.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55After I done it, I used to get my dad to take me to the hospital
0:13:55 > 0:13:56to get stitched up.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02It was kind of stupid, like, what I put them through.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07But there's always light at the end of the tunnel, so there is.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11There's always help there, you just have to want it.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19I don't do any stupid things anymore. I've too much to lose.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32I don't even know if I can cope.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35I've that much to do, I don't know what I'm doing.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38As she's about to go off on maternity leave,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Emma has to deal with some shattering news.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46I'm just ringing kind of to fill you in on what's going on.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50I was already finishing on Friday for maternity,
0:14:50 > 0:14:52but I won't be coming back.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56They kind of let me know last week that, unfortunately,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58they're going to have to make me redundant.
0:14:58 > 0:15:03So, really, when I finish this week, that's it.
0:15:03 > 0:15:04SHE SIGHS
0:15:05 > 0:15:10The charity she works for has been forced to close the entire project
0:15:10 > 0:15:12and Emma will be out of a job.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16There's no money in the funding package
0:15:16 > 0:15:19around kind of sick leave, maternity leave...
0:15:19 > 0:15:22to, you know, even for money
0:15:22 > 0:15:25to pay somebody else to come in and cover me.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28So Threshold, being a charity,
0:15:28 > 0:15:32they're obviously not profiting, they don't make a profit.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35So they don't have any kind of spare money about
0:15:35 > 0:15:37that they could use to cover those things.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40You know, it'll be scary to think that
0:15:40 > 0:15:43I'm telling people this this week.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45And I don't know what kind of effects
0:15:45 > 0:15:47that's going to have on them for next week
0:15:47 > 0:15:49and I won't know because I'll not be here.
0:15:49 > 0:15:55Once Friday comes, my phone literally will be off and that's it.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10You have to break them bits.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- What bits?- Them bits.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20- Are you sure you have to?- Uh-huh.
0:16:20 > 0:16:2215-year-old Kelly-Ann isn't thrilled
0:16:22 > 0:16:25by brother Jordan's new school uniform.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Now it's all right.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Now I've got to take it off me.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36It's a harsh reminder of a new school year.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40I just know it's coming soon and I really can't be bothered.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42I don't want to see that.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Hold on!
0:16:45 > 0:16:48- HE GIGGLES - Ah!
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Kelly-Ann is dreading another year in her own school uniform.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56I know I have to, so...
0:16:56 > 0:16:59I'm just going to have to.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01But I don't want to.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Cos I'll have to get up early again.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08I wasn't up till 12 today, but that was different.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30No, you don't. No, you don't...
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Noel and Mandy have hit on a way of helping their two grown-up children.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44Aaron has become Tanya's official carer.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48- When I know Aaron's here, I'm at peace.- And I'm the same.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52Tanya would rather have somebody she knows, her family.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56I'm excited coming off the dole, go down there and say to them, like.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58He'll have steady money every month.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02At least if I get through the week, if I get another job or something,
0:18:02 > 0:18:04if somebody wants something done,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06I can go and do it and make some money.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Aaron's going to look after her 16 hours a week
0:18:09 > 0:18:10and come off the dole and get paid.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13He's going to get paid for it, as a job for caring for her.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17- So it gets off the... - ..the brew.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20The diabetes, everything's all right.
0:18:20 > 0:18:26It's the epilepsy and the walking and shaking.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- Oh, I think it'll be good for Aaron because, as I say,
0:18:29 > 0:18:34he's been looking after Tanya, he's been helping us anyway.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38So he might as well do the caring as bring a stranger in.
0:18:38 > 0:18:39And it's going to be a job to him,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42and he's only going to be doing it two nights a week.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45So the rest of the week is his own.
0:18:45 > 0:18:50There's probably other folk in similar...similar situations.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52You just never see it.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Aye.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57We just batter away. Is there another biscuit in this house?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Any chance of getting one?
0:19:00 > 0:19:05He's been peeing over that floor anyway, I see.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07They're just staying here.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11If anything ever happened to Noel, I don't know how I would cope,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13trying to keep everything together.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16And him the same. I don't think he could do without me.
0:19:16 > 0:19:21He said he could, but I don't think so, you know.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Emma has to break her redundancy news to Martin,
0:19:37 > 0:19:39one of her neediest clients.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42I'm going off on Friday for maternity.
0:19:42 > 0:19:47- Mm.- But then I got some bad news at the end of last week
0:19:47 > 0:19:48to say that I'll not be coming back.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52- So that's you finished then? - So that'll be me finished on Friday.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55I'll miss you but... You're a good girl, you know.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58But I'm not going to get all emotional.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59THEY LAUGH
0:19:59 > 0:20:02You've helped me a wild, wild lot over the years.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05I thought I knew everything, but I didn't. You know...
0:20:05 > 0:20:07- I don't know everything either. - You're very smart...
0:20:07 > 0:20:10- You taught me stuff as well, Martin. - A wee bit, but not much.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15My head isn't as heavy as it was. I felt like I'd the weight of the world on my shoulders.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Cos we've got through a lot since then.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Aye. One step at a time. I don't go down them streets any more
0:20:20 > 0:20:24- doing what I used to do.- Yeah. - You know, and...
0:20:24 > 0:20:27The place is nice and relaxing, but the problem is it might get too relaxed.
0:20:27 > 0:20:33I have to get out on that bike and all that and keep myself going.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Things are looking good, aren't they?
0:20:35 > 0:20:37- They're getting there.- Yeah. - It all takes time.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40She's helped a lot of people
0:20:40 > 0:20:44and now it's time for her just to look after herself, you know.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48- And the bump!- Aye, the wee baby.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54I think if I was leaving him and if things weren't going well,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57it would be heartbreaking, you know, having to go.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59But because he's so well settled now,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01he's come on so much from we started,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04he's a lot more support there than he did before.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07And things are definitely on the way up.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09I don't feel so bad, I suppose, about leaving.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13I'm probably more emotional than I thought I would be.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15I think it's just cos I'm finishing
0:21:15 > 0:21:19and, like, for the last two years this has been my life, really.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Do you want to break, or I'll break?
0:21:39 > 0:21:43Rab and his son Kyle are on a rare night out together.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46It's been years and years.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48A long time, like.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51We've never really been out, you know what I mean, together.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54They're at the local church hall.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57This is the only time, really, on a Tuesday night
0:21:57 > 0:21:59I've started to get the two of us together, know what I mean?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02So, a bit of a change. At least I know where he is.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Did you pocket anything?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12It gets me out of the house, in here, like.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16It gets you socialising with other people too.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19You get my friends here as well, like.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22You can practice at your darts or practice at your pool as well.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23It's good craic.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30He must have been doing a lot of praying there, to get that shot.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33You want to have seen the shots he was pulling earlier on,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36- I was saying God must... - Oh, yes, good shot!- God must...
0:22:36 > 0:22:40That's what I'm saying, God must be on his side when he's pulling shots like that.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Kyle's even started going to church on a Sunday.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48Definitely, I'm glad to see him going here.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51And Kyle's still here at ten, half ten at night. He's enjoying it.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55I never thought I'd have seen Kyle going to church on a Sunday
0:22:55 > 0:22:57or being at a meeting like this here
0:22:57 > 0:23:00on a Tuesday night in the church hall.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Cos Kyle never appealed to me of doing that.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05But he has now changed.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09Hopefully it's for the good and he'll keep at it.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13He has proved me wrong.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Ladies and gentlemen!
0:23:24 > 0:23:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Let's get ready to rumble!
0:23:32 > 0:23:37After weeks of training, Emma is ready to test her boxing skills.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42I just want to prove to people, you know,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44I'm not a waste of space. I'm not.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46And I'm trying to do something better with my life.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48I guess I am a bit of a fighter.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Hopefully, in a positive way.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52- In a controlled environment! - SHE LAUGHS
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Emma's managed to raise £500 for charity.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58I guess I don't know anyone personally with disabilities
0:23:58 > 0:24:01cos that's who we're doing it for, we're doing it for Mencap.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05And I said, I guess if my...if my first daughter was still alive,
0:24:05 > 0:24:07that's who I'd be fighting for.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11So, to me, I'll be thinking about her and I'll be fighting for her.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13You know, because she wouldn't be able to fight for herself.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Sadly, she couldn't.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17So at least I'm going to go out there and do it for her,
0:24:17 > 0:24:19at the back of my mind.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22I'll do it in a positive way, you know, and not be sad about it.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25At least, you know, it's good... It's good to keep...
0:24:25 > 0:24:29I like to keep talking about her cos then you don't forget about her.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Number four.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome into the ring...
0:24:38 > 0:24:43Emma Wilson!
0:24:43 > 0:24:48CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:25:15 > 0:25:18That's it! Keep it going, Emma!
0:25:21 > 0:25:22SHOUTING AND CHEERING
0:25:23 > 0:25:26After two rounds, the winner was decided on points.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29And the judges were unanimous.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31And the winner in blue...
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Emma Wilson!
0:25:33 > 0:25:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Fight number five.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50I can't believe it! Oh, my God!
0:25:56 > 0:25:59It's been the toughest of places to be
0:25:59 > 0:26:02in the teeth of an economic storm.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05By the end of our year on the estate...
0:26:07 > 0:26:11Jimmy and Denise have been forced to drop the price of their house AGAIN
0:26:11 > 0:26:13for the sake of daughter Lauren.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Martin continues to battle the booze
0:26:19 > 0:26:22without Emma.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28And Kyle remains on the lookout for a job.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34But the spirit of Ballysally has shone brightly throughout.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Look at that, isn't that a lovely view? That's so nice!
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Emma's started university
0:26:39 > 0:26:43and passed her first assignment with flying colours.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Noel's on a DYI roll.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55He's finally putting in that shower.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Bath out, shower room.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00So that's two projects on the job -
0:27:00 > 0:27:03kitchen and bathroom. Come on.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06Bye-bye.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Oh, God!
0:27:13 > 0:27:14It's a new chapter for Jordan.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Move!
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Two seconds... It's only for my tie.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22And Kelly-Ann has made a decision.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28When I said to people, "I'll start school on Monday," they went, "Aye, are you going?"
0:27:30 > 0:27:33I totally couldn't get to sleep, till like after one o'clock.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Cos my stomach was in knots, like.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39And I know, as soon as I go, they'll be like,
0:27:39 > 0:27:43"You've too much make up on! Take that eyebrow bar out!" Wait till you see.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52- The bus is coming at twenty to. - Oh! I need a lighter!
0:27:55 > 0:27:57- See yous after.- Bye!
0:28:05 > 0:28:08SHE LAUGHS
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Thank God. Relieved.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15They're all away.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16A bit of peace.
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