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Martin O’Neill lit the blue touchpaper ahead of tomorrow’s CSKA clash by delivering a damning response to Zico’s claims Villa are one-dimensional.

The Express & Star’s Brendan McLoughlin guages the mood of Villa fans en route to Moscow for the UEFA Cup clash with CSKA Moscow.

A shop in Willenhall caught selling loaves of bread which had been gnawed by mice and where droppings were found on the floor has been fined of £2,000.

A paraplegic who killed a West Midlands scout master by mowing him down in his car has been jailed for nine years after being extradited to face court proceedings.

Albion midfielder Filipe Teixeira is ready to play through the pain at Everton after the latest setback in his first Premier League season.

The birth of their first child should have been a moment of sheer joy for her proud parents. But instead, the arrival of tiny Megan Valerie Diack was tinged with heartbreak following the murder of her father Andrew days before.

Passers-by saved a woman’s life today following a fire at a flat in Tipton.

Suspected Wolverhampton murder victim Steve Adams died after receiving serious head injuries outside the Wolverhampton house where his stepson had moved less than a month earlier, it emerged today.

David Cameron’s disabled son Ivan died today after being taken ill overnight.

Like many doting fathers, Colin Bateman wanted to keep his promise to take his son sledging when a blanket of snow covered the Black Country.