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New Villa boss Gerard Houllier is prepared to be courageous in the Carling Cup tonight after revealing he will rotate his squad for his first game in charge.

Michael Appleton today insisted Albion would welcome an extended run in the Carling Cup despite the prospect of wholesale changes at The Hawthorns tonight.

About 30  years ago I wrote a column challenging the rise of glass “recycling” which involved pulverising perfectly good bottles and melting them down to make identical new ones, writes Peter Rhodes.

Critical Mick McCarthy today hit out at a ‘poor’ performance by Wolves after they scraped through to the last 16 of the Carling Cup against 10-man Notts County.

Wolves fans hurled bricks and breeze blocks at rival supporters’ coaches, injuring a 78-year-old woman, after a match in which disgraced former Albion star Lee Hughes taunted supporters with a Baggies T-shirt.

The boss of a Black Country tanning salon chain was today starting an eight-year jail sentence after a major police operation unmasked him as an armed drug dealer.

He is known to children across the Midlands as Baldy the Clown, the man in a jazzy suit and oversized red shoes who tells jokes and shapes balloons.

Two drivers were taken to hospital following a three-vehicle crash in Wolverhampton.

Travellers have set up camp on an historic Black Country brewery site.

A lottery millionaire from South Staffordshire got “bored” after his £2.7 million win and wanted a normal life despite using his fortune to buy luxury homes, cars and holidays, a court heard.