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Birmingham have allowed out-of-favour striker Marcus Bent to go on loan to Championship side Middlesbrough until the end of December.

Royal Mail bosses and union leaders are to hold more talks this morning amid uncertainty about further postal strikes.

Heavy rain and wintry gales are on their way in the West Midlands, ending the balmy temperatures of one of the best Octobers on record.

Former Wolves and Stoke idols Kenny Hibbitt and Denis Smith are once again locking horns – assessing the referee!

It has been a strange few days but turned it out nice in the end for Wolves blogger Nathan Lloyd ahead of the trip to Stoke.

Albion blogger Jarrod Hill compares and contrasts the Baggies’ start with season goes by as the team look for the drive to carry into the Watford game.

As League One rivals Southend go into administration, Walsall blogger Mark Jones takes a look at how some of the Saddlers’ other old rivals are bearing up in the current climate.

Villa blogger Dave Bytheway still feels lucky to have escaped Molineux with a point but has been struck down by League Cup fever ahead of the trip to Everton.

Expressandstar.com bring you all the latest transfer gossip on Wolves, Albion, Villa, Walsall and Blues.

Online Sports Journalist Craig Birch is joined by Wolves correspondent Tim Nash and Walsall reporter Nick Mashiter around the table this week.