Mike Edwards

I have to say I'm gutted. I love the idea of George Best Airport in Belfast and John Lennon Airport in Liverpool. I used to get really excited about the prospect of using airports, until I started using airports and the novelty was washed away in an insta... See more

And when the website opened for bookings, I hovered over my laptop like an excited teenager with my bank card in my sweaty paw, ready to pounce. But by the time I went online the good seats had gone in the presale and all that were left were those up in t... See more

One is Sergeant Alexander Edwards VC of the Seaforth Highlanders, a cousin of my grandfather. The other is Private William Kennedy, the great-uncle of my good friend Mark. Edwards won his Victoria Cross for three remarkable feats of heroism near Ypres in ... See more

That opening image was of five grinning blokes of a certain age in the bar at Glasgow Airport, holding a map bejewelled with yellow stickies marking their destinations during a week-long tour of battlefields in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. The fli... See more

And I can't abide those who whang on about the consistency of their coulis when there are children starving. Neither am I one to overindulge, although I love my grub. My dad had a couple of good adages about scran – eat little and often and always leave t... See more