Darren Bent's penalty is enough to beat Gianfranco Zola's Birmingham and take Derby within a point of the Championship's top six.

West Bromwich Albion's Callum McManaman is to join Sheffield Wednesday on a half-season loan deal from 1 January.

Ashley Giles rejoins Warwickshire as sport director, with Lancashire agreeing to release him from his deal at Old Trafford.

Follow live text commentary from the Premier League as West Brom face Hull City at the Hawthorns.

Scott Laird scores the only goal of the game as Walsall see off struggling Port Vale at Vale Park.

West Brom manager Tony Pulis describes his side's 1-0 Premier League defeat to Arsenal by the Emirates after Olivier Giroud's 86th minute header as "hard to take".

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger describes his side's 1-0 win over West Brom after a late Olivier Giroud header as "not easy mentally" following back-to-back Premier League defeats.

Wolves head coach Paul Lambert tells BBC WM he wants goal-line technology to be made available for Championship matches.

Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud heads a late winner as the Gunners end a run of two league defeats with victory over a stubborn West Brom.

Ivan Cavaleiro's late penalty gives Wolves back-to-back wins for the first time since August with victory over Bristol City.

Ross McCormack scores the winner for an under-par Aston Villa against Championship strugglers Burton Albion.

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Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud makes his first league start of the season as he comes in for forward Theo Walcott, who does not make the bench. Left-back Kieran Gibbs replacing Nacho Monreal is the only other change by Gunners boss Arsene Wenger from the team that were beaten by Manchester City last time out. 

Arsenal XI: Cech, Bellerin, Gabriel, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Xhaka, Sanchez, Ozil, Iwobi, Giroud.  

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West Brom boss Tony Pulis makes one change from the defeat by Manchester United last time out as centre-back Jonny Evans comes in for Jonas Olsson.

West Brom XI: Foster, Dawson, McAuley, Evans, Nyom, Yacob, Fletcher, Phillips, Chadli, Brunt, Rondon.

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Steve Wilson
Match of the Day commentator

On current form it's possible that West Brom could finish higher than in any season since 1981.

They've scored three or more goals in four league games already: that's rather like the quiet bloke from Quantity Surveying arriving at the office party in a low-cut sparkly number with slingback heels and a Chihuahua puppy in his handbag. Surprising.

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In 1996, two boys went out to play and did not return. They have never been found and no-one has been charged over their disappearance. So what happened to the friends who would become known as the "Milk Carton Kids"?

BBC News has tracked the likely route two teenagers took from their homes before disappearing on 26 December 1996.

How people are spreading the Christmas spirit by helping those in need.

Two Kurdish immigrants are found guilty of trying to join the Islamic State group in Iraq.

West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster signs a new two-and-a-half-year deal with the club that will run until 2019.

BBC News invites a military wives choir to sing a festive carol on-air.