disappearance. ais year old boy and are charged with the murder of the 16 year old girl who was killed in cheshire on saturday. inflation remains near a a0 year high. the uk s most expensive drug saves a toddler with a rare genetic condition, but it is too late to save her terminally ill sister. nicola sturgeon is stepping down as scotland s first minister and leader of the scottish national party. she will leave office as soon as her successor is chosen. she says she can no longer give the role the full commitment she believes that it needs, and she hinted that after eight years as scotland s first minister, efforts to broaden the appeal of scottish independence could be hampered by what she called polarised opinions about her work. we ll look back at her career and get political reaction from edinburgh and london, but first lorna gordon on nicola sturgeon s resignation. she is scotland s longest serving first minister, the first female to hold the position. and today, nicol
westminster, being talked about. it is harder to see how they could come in a practical sense, become first minister. so, there are some names being floated around. it is still early days. nicola sturgeon will stay as first minister until the leadership contest takes place, if indeed there is a contest. you would think the snp would want to move swiftly on that, because as nicola sturgeon acknowledged herself in her press conference, this is a critical moment for the party because next month they are holding a special conference to decide on what their plan should be for pushing ahead with that bid for independence. things being talked about, the de facto referendum of using a westminster or holyrood election to achieve independence, so, they will want to start hearing the party, from those possible leadership contenders on what their viewers on that and how they would seek to move the agenda forward. the agenda forward. thank you very much. in her more than two decades