Summary

  • Wedding dress funded brother's 'IS' mission

  • Trial of three accused of murdering music shop owner

  • West Bromwich Albion sold

  • WBA joins Wolves and Villa in Chinese ownership

  • WBA's new owner is Guochuan Lai, 42

  • Updates from Friday 5 August 2016

  1. Derby County 0-0 Aston Villapublished at 19:25 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    Derby record their second successive goalless home draw in the Championship after being held by Aston Villa.

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  2. Zenga delighted with 'confident' Wolvespublished at 19:15 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    Wolves head coach Walter Zenga speaks to BBC WM following Saturday's 3-1 win over Birmingham in the Championship.

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  3. Storer must learn from red card - Rowettpublished at 19:04 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett speaks to BBC WM following Saturday's 3-1 Championship defeat by Wolves.

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  4. Wolves 'spirit' key to unbeaten startpublished at 18:56 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    Wolves head coach Walter Zenga attributes their unbeaten start to the Championship season to his players' spirit.

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  5. West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Evertonpublished at 18:03 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    Gareth Barry's header secures Ronald Koeman's first win as Everton manager as they come from a goal down at West Brom.

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  6. Walsall 1-2 Charlton Athleticpublished at 17:45 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    Nicky Ajose scores twice to open his Charlton account as the Addicks run out winners in an entertaining affair at Walsall.

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  7. Birmingham City 1-3 Wolvespublished at 17:02 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    Wolves come from behind to beat rivals Birmingham City and end 10-man Blues' unbeaten start to the Championship season.

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  8. Team newspublished at 14:15 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    West Brom v Everton (15:00 BST)

    Tony Pulis has stuck with the same West Brom side who started last Saturday's 1-0 win at Crystal Palace, which means that Saido Berahino continues in attack alongside Salomon Rondon, and centre-half Jonny Evans continues to fill in at left-back.

    West Brom XI: Foster; Dawson, McAuley, Olsson, Evans; Phillips, Fletcher, Yacob, Gardner; Rondon, Berahino.

    West BromImage source, BBC Sport

    Everton are also unchanged, meaning that they should stick with the 3-4-2-1 line-up that Ronald Koeman deployed for last week's 1-1 draw against Tottenham. Romelu Lukaku, who returned to training on Tuesday following a heel problem, is on the bench with new signings Yannick Bolasie and Ashley Williams.

    Everton XI: Stekelenburg; Holgate, Jagielka, Funes Mori; McCarthy, Gueye, Barry, Baines; Mirallas, Barkley; Deulofeu.

    EvertonImage source, BBC Sport
  9. A striker in formpublished at 11:20 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    West Brom v Everton (15:00 BST)

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  10. Predictions timepublished at 10:50 British Summer Time 20 August 2016

    Leicester 1-1 Arsenal? Burnley 4-1 Liverpool?

    As he always does, Mark Lawrenson has done his predictions for this weekend's games.

    His rivals are Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson, who are behind the Athletico Mince podcast.

    Check that out here.

    And if you fancy your own go at guessing the scores, play our Premier League Predictor.

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  11. Kilmarnock add three more signingspublished at 23:41 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    Kilmarnock sign defender Dapo Kayode, plus Birmingham midfielder Charlee Adams and Burnley right-back Luke Hendrie on loan.

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  12. Birmingham's Morrison extends dealpublished at 18:53 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    Captain Michael Morrison extends his deal at Birmingham City for a further year, keeping him with the club until 2019.

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  13. Torquay sign West Brom's Ward on loanpublished at 18:02 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    Teenage West Bromwich Albion midfielder Joe Ward joins National League club Torquay United on loan until 3 January.

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  14. Cheltenham add Arthur and Smith on loanpublished at 17:26 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    Birmingham City forward Koby Arthur and Bristol City winger Jonny Smith join Cheltenham Town on loan until 2 January.

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  15. Five admit Watford football fan attackpublished at 17:04 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    Five teenagers admit their part in an attack which left a football fan seriously ill.

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  16. Distillery blaze leads to £270,000 finepublished at 16:32 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    A company is fined £270,000 following a fire at a Black Country distillery that melted lamp-posts and saw residents evacuated.

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  17. Some Items stolen from police recovered, but not allpublished at 13:38 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    Tom Turrell
    BBC Midlands Today

    Some of the items stolen from police forces in the West Midlands have been recovered over the past five years. 

    When thieves made off with a blue flashing lamp, officers in Warwickshire managed to get it back. 

    But cops in our region haven't always been so lucky. When four horses were pinched from West Mercia Police the thieves got away scot-free. 

    Whether items were retrieved or not, some people are already asking whether the boys and girls in blue need to be a little more careful with their own property. 

    Items stolen from police forces in the West Midlands
  18. Fletcher for skipper?published at 13:21 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    Kenny Crawford
    BBC Sport Scotland

    Who does Kevin Thomson believe will wear the Scotland captain's armband following Scott Brown's international retirement?

    "Darren Fletcher is the obvious one," he said. "He's got a great C.V. and has had a massive career.

    "And he's a captain at a club [West Brom] at the moment. That would be the obvious one although I don't think I'm in the position to pick the next Scotland captain.

    "I'm pretty sure Gordon Strachan will have an idea of who [he wants] to lead when they have 10-day trips or the international breaks when the boys come away.

    "You can always tell the boys that other boys respect and gravitate to. That's always in the back of a manager's thoughts: if you're popular within the lads - and you make yourself available for other boys, especially the new ones coming into the squad - then that's a candidate that someone would potentially be looking at."          

    Scotland's Darren FletcherImage source, SNS
  19. In Praise of Birminghampublished at 12:59 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    David Cannadine defends his home city of Birmingham against a slur in Jane Austen's "Emma" as, "not a place to promise much", by celebrating its heritage and its current cultural renaissance. Producer: Sheila Cook.

  20. Lescott move to Rangers falls throughpublished at 12:45 British Summer Time 19 August 2016

    Rangers' proposed move for Aston Villa's Joleon Lescott is off after the defender failed his medical, BBC Scotland understands.

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