:00:15. > :00:17.Sporting stars dominate the list of Midlanders decorated
:00:18. > :00:19.in the New Year Honours, which have been published
:00:20. > :00:23.Top billing goes to a Paralympian who already has an astonishing 30
:00:24. > :00:28.Staffordshire's Lee Pearson has been awarded a knighthood
:00:29. > :00:31.His gold medal in Rio was his eleventh in a glittering
:00:32. > :00:36.Paralympic career which stretches back over five games.
:00:37. > :00:39.Staying on horseback, and there's a CBE for Nick Skelton
:00:40. > :00:41.from Warwickshire who won a showjumping gold in Brazil
:00:42. > :00:43.and for Gloucestershire's Charlotte Dujardin, who won gold
:00:44. > :00:50.Paralympic swimmer Sascha Kindred from Herefordshire also picks up
:00:51. > :00:52.the CBE after winning gold in the pool in Rio.
:00:53. > :00:54.Adam Peaty from Uttoxeter is also recognised -
:00:55. > :00:56.he gets an MBE after he won the 100-metre breaststroke
:00:57. > :01:10.Away from sport there was an MBE for Marcia Shakespeare for her work
:01:11. > :01:12.as a volunteer on gang, gun and knife projects.
:01:13. > :01:14.Her teenage daughter Letisha was killed in a shooting
:01:15. > :01:20.It's a bittersweet moment in the sense Letisha went out
:01:21. > :01:23.on a New Year and lost her life from being murdered.
:01:24. > :01:25.The sweet moment is there's a reward at the end,
:01:26. > :01:28.that all of the work and effort I've put in to make a change
:01:29. > :01:41.There was also an MBE for Karen Ross from Walsall for services
:01:42. > :01:43.to the reduction of knife crime among young people.
:01:44. > :01:46.Her 16-year-old daughter Rosie was stabbed to death while sunbathing
:01:47. > :01:54.in Birmingham City Centre 15 years ago.
:01:55. > :01:57.And there are more details about who's been included
:01:58. > :02:02.in the New Year Honours list on the BBC News website.
:02:03. > :02:05.The family of a Wolverhampton man who was shot dead as he sat
:02:06. > :02:08.in a parked car have paid tribute to a "devoted father,
:02:09. > :02:14.33-year-old Carl Campbell was shot on Tuesday.
:02:15. > :02:18.It's since emerged he was jailed seven years ago for a hit and run
:02:19. > :02:24.His family say it was an accident and he panicked.
:02:25. > :02:26.Two men, Mohammed Humza and Vikesh Chauhan,
:02:27. > :02:28.appeared via video-link at Wolverhampton Crown Court earlier
:02:29. > :02:35.charged with Mr Campbell's murder and were remanded in custody.
:02:36. > :02:38.A trial's begun in the Midlands to test whether giving blood
:02:39. > :02:40.to patients on board air ambulances will save more lives.
:02:41. > :02:43.At present patients who are bleeding don't usually get a transfusion
:02:44. > :02:49.Here's our health correspondent, Michele Paduano.
:02:50. > :02:52.Duncan Buckley's body buckled and shattered in a car crash.
:02:53. > :02:56.He was in a coma for a month and needed 25 operations.
:02:57. > :02:58.The air ambulance gave him saline at the scene,
:02:59. > :03:02.but would giving him blood have been better?
:03:03. > :03:07.Some air ambulances give blood and clotting plasma,
:03:08. > :03:10.some red blood cells, some saline, but now
:03:11. > :03:14.the Midlands Air Ambulance is leading a national investigation
:03:15. > :03:17.across ten treatment centres to find out whether giving blood before
:03:18. > :03:27.Prehospital medicine is becoming more and more widely recognised
:03:28. > :03:34.We want to find out if what we are doing in our area
:03:35. > :03:41.The patients who qualify will be near death -
:03:42. > :03:43.no pulse, serious injuries, haemorrhaging with a blood
:03:44. > :03:46.These boxes are made by the Royal Wolverhampton Hospital.
:03:47. > :03:49.Medics here don't know if they contain blood or salty water.
:03:50. > :03:51.It's important to know if the blood works because if they used
:03:52. > :03:54.them on helicopters, it could take up a large part
:03:55. > :03:57.500 patients will be followed over the next three years.
:03:58. > :03:59.The study is led by Birmingham University
:04:00. > :04:07.This was a trial that was deemed impossible due to the complexity
:04:08. > :04:13.We are already finding other services from across the world
:04:14. > :04:16.We now have an expertise in prehospital research
:04:17. > :04:37.And that means offers to undertake other research projects,
:04:38. > :04:47.The former Porterville football match character has died aged 40.
:04:48. > :04:52.There was a minute of applause before to make's game.
:04:53. > :04:54.So, to tonight's football results and in League One,
:04:55. > :04:56.Port Vale won that game against Chesterfield by 1-0.
:04:57. > :04:59.Meanwhile, Shrewsbury lost 2-1 at Rochdale to end the year
:05:00. > :05:04.In League Two, Cheltenham Town were beaten 1-0 at home
:05:05. > :05:10.Onto rugby now and Wasps have tonight gone five points clear
:05:11. > :05:13.at the top of the Premiership after a thrilling
:05:14. > :05:16.Wasps fell behind to two early Newcastle tries before starting
:05:17. > :05:18.a comeback with this effort from Danny Cipriani.
:05:19. > :05:23.They went on to win the game by 34 points to 30.
:05:24. > :05:28.Our next bulletin is just after 7:30 tomorrow evening.
:05:29. > :05:31.Until then, I'll leave you now with the weekend weather
:05:32. > :05:39.It was another foggy day today and fog will be persisting
:05:40. > :05:42.as we head through tonight and we still have a yellow warning
:05:43. > :05:46.For mostly eastern parts, we could get some freezing fog
:05:47. > :05:50.High pressure is still holding on, but we are starting to pick
:05:51. > :05:53.up a bit of a breeze as we head into tomorrow.
:05:54. > :05:55.That breeze will break the cloud down a little bit.
:05:56. > :05:57.Some clear spells to come tonight and where we get that,
:05:58. > :06:01.our temperatures will fall away and we could also see some more fog
:06:02. > :06:03.patches developing with lows of a possible 1 Celsius
:06:04. > :06:05.in Herefordshire, but elsewhere holding up a little
:06:06. > :06:09.But it's another cloudy start to the day tomorrow with some more
:06:10. > :06:12.Perhaps a few spots of drizzle across the north of the region
:06:13. > :06:15.but some breaks in the cloud by the afternoon with some
:06:16. > :06:25.But it should be dry and clear as we head through to midnight.
:06:26. > :06:28.Then there's a band of rain for New Year's Day from the west
:06:29. > :06:30.and behind that, something much colder on the way.
:06:31. > :06:41.There's much more on that in the national forecast next.
:06:42. > :06:42.Good evening. Looking ahead to 2017 it looks like we