Mike Edwards (Scottish journalist)

Michael Andrew Edwards OBE VR DL BA is a Scottish author, army reserve officer, charity trustee, dementia campaigner, retired journalist and Deputy Lord Lieutenant.

Shortly after his dismissal, Edwards moved to Switzerland and worked in Bern for the World Service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation covering the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Coup and the first Gulf War, before joining Scottish Television in 1993.

He is a major in the Army Reserve and was mobilised for active service in Iraq and Afghanistan where he came under repeated enemy fire.

is a volume of autobiography, which focuses on life as a journalist in Scotland, his service while mobilised for operational tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as an Army Reserve officer and an account of life with his elderly mother Margaret, who was living with a diagnosis of dementia, after he took early retirement from STV to care for her.

Mike is a Trustee of Glasgow Humane Society In June 2021, he was appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire.

Mike Edwards has been an Army Reservist since 1994 and has served in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Mike Edwards at the launch of his third book, 'You're Seeing It!' in December 2022.
Mike Edwards received his OBE from the King in an investiture at Windsor Castle in July 2023.