30/12/2011 Midlands Today

Good evening. A 12-year-old boy is being treated as a potentially

significant witness after a woman died from multiple stab wounds at a

flat in Wolverhampton. Police launched a murder investigation

after the 36-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene in the

Whitmore Reans area yesterday. She suffered 18 separate stab wounds. A

man, who was also found at the flat with stab injuries, is being

treated in hospital. The boy is currently being cared for by

specially trained police officers. Wards at four separate hospitals

across the region have been shut after an outbreak of the winter

vomiting bug norovirus. Visitors are being told to stay away from

wards at three hospitals in South Warwickshire including Warwick

Hospital. Ward one at Walsall Manor Hospital is also closed. But

visitors are being allowed again at City Hospital in Birmingham.

Three men have been jointly charged with murder after a 23-year-old man

was stabbed to death in Shrewsbury. Jason Scott Cooke died during an

incident in the Monkmoor area of the town on Tuesday evening. The

three men, who are all aged 24, have also been jointly charged with

burglary. They will appear before a special sitting of Telford

Magistrates tomorrow morning. Four other men arrested in connection

with the incident have been given bail while inquiries continue.

A former soldier who was severely burned in Iraq is on the verge of

running his 52nd marathon in a year. Karl Hinett from Tipton in the

Black Country will run his last race in Liverpool tomorrow. As Bob

Hockenhull reports, he has raised more than �20,000 for the burns

unit where he was treated. Karl Hinett's running exploits this

year have taken him much further than his local park. 51 marathons

so far in 19 countries starting with Zurich in Switzerland at

midnight on January 1st. The first marathon they felt like it I had

maybe bitten off a little bit more than I could chew. I took it a week

at a time and hero am. -- here I am. An oustanding achievement for

anyone, but particularly for Karl who was in a coma for 11 days after

his tank was petrol bombed in Basra in 2005. The Staffordshire Regiment

soldier suffered 37% burns and endured five years of surgery.

first challenge was looking in the mirror. Because of the scars. But

again, you start off small and work your way up. His charity marathon

challenge has raised �20,000 for the burns unit at Queen Elizabeth

Hospital in Birmingham. Karl is confident he will manage this

weekend's marathon in Liverpool. After all, he is planning ultra

races in the Amazon and the Antarctic and will also climb

Everest for another charity. He aims to run 100 marathons by the

end of 2012. He is confident he will manage the back-to-back

marathons in Liverpool this weekend. He will be running in the Antarctic

and Amazon later in the air and will also climb Everest for another

charity. In a little over 24 hours time, we

will enter the Olympic year of 2012. And to mark the occasion, the torch

from the last time the Games were held in this country was brought to

Birmingham. Kevin Reide reports. 91-year-old Olympic cyclist Tommy

Godwin in Birmingham today with the two bronze medals he won in the

1948 London Games. Joining him, fellow cyclist Harry Reynolds who

later won silver. And future hopeful, Birchfield Harrier

sprinter Amelia Benjamin with the 1948 torch. The trio were

highlighting Birmingham's role in the Olympics as the city plays host

to both the American and Jamaican Athletics teams. The idea of the

Games coming to London and the effect it has had on Birmingham and

the Midlands from the commercial side is wonderful. And Tommy thinks

it will all be very different from when he was involved. The media was

not interested in those days. There was a little bit in the paper. The

team was put together two weeks before and you were told, you are

on the Olympic team. But what do today's youngster think it will be

like? I think more young people will come to the Games. It will

have a possible impact on sport in Birmingham. -- positive impact.

Meanwhile, here in Coventry, the excitement is also building, as

this city is one of the few venues outside London specially selected

to host some of the Games. We have got 12 Olympic football matches

coming up to Coventry, 250,000 people are expected to come to the

City. We are really looking forward to it. So for the Midlands, it is

roll on London 2012. Onto football now and the Wolves'

manager Mick McCarthy has angrily criticised the decision to uphold a

red card given to one of his players. Nenad Milijas was sent off

during the 1-1 draw at Arsenal three days ago and an appeal by

Wolves was thrown out. Nick Clitheroe reports. I wonder what

kind of a view he has got... This was a press conference with a

difference. Mick McCarthy decided to turn the tables and start asking

us questions. Does anybody think it was a sending off? He's angry that

an FA disciplinary panel upheld referee Stuart Atwell's decision to

send Nenad Milijas off for this tackle at the Emirates. There is

one person who thinks it is, one referee I have spoken to think it

is a booking. Who sits on the panel and who decides when everybody but

one in here and everyone I have spoken to think that is a bad

decision, who has compounded that bad decision by agreeing with them

and why would that happen? To back up his argument, he had prepared

another clip of what he suggested was a very similar tackle by Ronald

Zubar which did not even lead to a free-kick. But despite his anger at

the injustice, McCarthy is delighted with their performance

and hoping the players repeat it at Bolton tomorrow.

And you can keep up-to-date with your team's fortunes over the busy

Bank Holiday period on your BBC local radio station.

So it's out with the old and in with the new tomorrow night. But

what will the weather have in store It has been a thoroughly at soggy

affair for many of us to date. Quite a lot of rain and some mild

air bear it. You will certainly notice that this evening and

overnight. It will turn very mild indeed. It has been an

exceptionally warm year. The Met Office have just given as the

statistics. It was the second warmest year on record in the

Midlands. It was also the driest since 1960 fault. You might

struggle to believe that with all of the main debate! -- with all of

the rain today! It may be a bit misty over the hills but in our

there will come tomorrow morning said temperatures will be in double

figures. Tomorrow will be mild. Some outbreaks of light, patchy

rain and drizzle. A better chance of seeing something brighter in the

south and east. Look at the temperatures! Exceptional for the

time of year. If you are celebrating tomorrow night, there

will be a bit of rain at times. It will be breezy and very mild. Some