Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo rejects suggestions the club have become a stepping stone to bigger rivals.

Northampton secured their first League One win of the season following promotion with a narrow 2-1 victory at Shrewsbury.

Mallik Wilks scores a late header to give Hull a narrow win at home to Crewe and maintain their winning start to the season.

Josh Gordon's late equaliser for Walsall denies Football League new boys Harrogate Town back-to-back wins to start the season.

Tom Conlon scores one goal and creates the other to help Port Vale to victory at Exeter City.

Swansea City are held to a goalless draw at home by Birmingham City in the Championship.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores a hat-trick and James Rodriguez claims his first Premier League goal as Everton thrash 10-man West Bromwich Albion.

Jacob Billington, an Everton fan, died in a spate of stabbings in the city earlier this month.

John Brayford's late header secures Burton's first league win under Jake Buxton courtesy of a 2-1 victory over Accrington.

Katharine House Hospice in Staffordshire helps adults and families coping with progressive illness.

Aston Villa sign forward Bertrand Traore from Lyon in a £17m deal.

Inspectors also found prisoners at HMP Hewell in Redditch "could not be safe".

A sculpture based on the path's buzzard waymark will be unveiled on Kingsland Bridge in Shrewsbury.

Kent become the latest side to qualify for the T20 Blast quarter-finals as others keep their last-eight hopes alive.

Coventry City pick up their first league victory of the season thanks to Kyle McFadzean's late winner against QPR.

People will not be able to socialise with other households in their homes or gardens.

Michael Leydon sent texts to his victim blaming the attack on "drink, tablets and stress".

There have been 25 "clusters" or "outbreaks" of coronavirus across schools in the West Midlands in the past seven days - meaning two or more people have tested positive for Covid-19.

Thirteen of these have affected primary schools with 12 in secondary schools in the seven days up to 18 September, according to the Public Health England community surveillance study., external

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The BBC Economics Editor, Faisal Islam tweeted a "fair chunk" of new acute respiratory infections are now in an education setting.

The North West is the only region to have more clusters with 31 recorded.

About 7,000 students are isolating from schools in Birmingham with more than 1,000 affected in Wolverhampton.

Solihull Council blamed a "glitch" in the booking system as 400 people arrived without the right details.

Hospitals are now back on the "same emergency footing" as they were at the height of the pandemic, the boss of England's biggest hospital trust has said.

Dr David Rosser, the chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said a total 113 patients were being treated for the condition in its hospitals, which he described as "very worrying".

He said 14 of those were currently receiving life support treatment, up 50% on the previous week.

Staff are "stressed and apprehensive," he added, saying "levels of anxiety among our staff that we may go back to what we saw in April is beyond anything I've experienced in over 30 years in the health service.

"I've never known a clinical team as distressed and apprehensive as they are at the moment."