Good evening and welcome to this Thursday evening's headline briefing.
The top stories today include; all the latest news from Ibrox as Gerrard departs and Nicola Sturgeon's response after being accused of too many selfies.
Here are all the top stories keeping you up to date this evening.
Steven Gerrard Rangers exit LIVE as Ibrox next manager search escalates
Don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it's happened.
That is the only positive way Rangers fans can look at the departure of Steven Gerrard.
If they had been offered that all-important title that stopped Celtic winning 10-in-a-row when he arrived in May, 2018 then they would have accepted that.
It was all that mattered in their eyes and he achieved that but there is no doubting the disappointment at the timing of his departure to Aston Villa.
Scot tortures and kills hedgehog by brutally stamping on it and stabbing it with knife
A sadistic brute tortured and killed a hedgehog by stamping on the animal before stabbing it with a knife and striking it with a pool cue.
Niall Sheriden also played football with the female creature in the corridor of his homeless accommodation in Midlothian and hit it with a ‘wet floor’ cone.
The sick 22-year-old used a knife to stab the hedgehog around ten times during the harrowing incident caught on CCTV.
Nicola Sturgeon hits back after being criticised over number of COP26 selfies
Nicola Sturgeon has hit back after being criticised by a leading environmental charity for failing to sign up to a commitment to reduce fossil fuels.
Friends of the Earth said the First Minister "was keen to use the language of climate justice and be photographed with Greta Thunberg" but claimed her rhetoric had so far failed to translate into firm commitments to end oil and gas production.
The SNP leader has been pictured with a variety of politicians and climate activists at COP26 in Glasgow including US politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and David Attenborough.
Dad and sons dragged teen off bus and tried to shove him in car boot after mum was spat at
A teenage boy was dragged off a bus and nearly bundled into a car boot during a horrifying "vigilante" revenge attempt to teach him a lesson.
Duncan Patrick, 53, "grossly overreacted" after being told that his wife had been spat at and "harangued" and so got his two sons to track down who was to blame.
Attendance Allowance myths that stop people of State Pension age claiming help worth up to £358 a month
New research by Age UK has found that an estimated 1.25 million women who are claiming State Pension are living below the breadline, the equivalent to one in five.
The charity says single female pensioners are at a much higher risk of being in poverty than single men and pensioner couples.
