Mike Edwards (journalist)
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Mike Edwards is a senior reporter on stv central's news programme, Scotland Today.
Born and bred in Inverness, Mike has been a journalist for more than 20 years, and has been part of the Scotland Today team since 1993, whilst writing novels and short stories in his spare time. He is a major in the Territorial Army and was mobilised for active service in Afghanistan in 2002 and the war which removed Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq in 2003. He came under repeated enemy fire until his war ended when he reached Saddam's river palace in Basra. While in Kabul he wrote his first novel "Friendly Fire" which is set there. The book was published in April 2006. ("Friendly Fire" Pegasus, £8.99 www.pegasuspublishers.com) His hobbies are writing, travelling and following Inverness Caley FC.