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Wolves striker Kevin Doyle has surveyed Villa’s attacking riches and concluded – “you couldn’t do it without Steve Sidwell.”

James Collins concedes Villa will have to find a way past “Britain’s best young goalkeeper” if they are to taste derby delight in the Premier League clash with Wolves at Molineux.

Chief Sports Writer Martin Swain pinpoints the here and now significance of the Villa and Wolves derby ahead of the tussle at Molineux.

Albion’s misfiring forwards have received an emphatic vote of confidence as the team gear up to face Coventry looking to end a six-match goal drought.

Assistant Albion boss Eddie Newton has backed defender Gonzalo Jara to stand tall in the Championship and make light despite his lack of height.

The master and his apprentice will clash when Walsall travel to Colchester in League One.

When pensioner Malcolm Wright discovered a charity collection box stuck in brambles as he walked along a canal towpath, he thought he would do the decent thing.

Postmen and women picketing delivery centres across the West Midlands today declared: “We have no choice.”

A teenager killed in a horror hit-and-run crash in South Staffordshire was today named as James Taylor of Coseley.

A teacher prosecuted after she was accused of banging a six-year-old pupil’s hand on a desk has had her case thrown out by magistrates.