Mike Wade

Edinburgh

Scotland Senior Reporter at The Times

I'm a reporter for The Times. These are not the views of my employer.

Articles

UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE ANNOUNCES NEW ERA AS OFFICIAL SIDELINE CAP AND ON-FIELD HEADWEAR PROVIDER

3 weeks ago | kget.com | Mike Wade

UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE ANNOUNCES NEW ERA AS OFFICIAL SIDELINE CAP AND ON-FIELD HEADWEAR PROVIDER – New Era to Serve As Official Sideline Cap and On-Field Headwear Provider of League – Apr 01, 2025, 11:15 AM ET ARLINGTON, TEXAS, April 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ARLINGTON, TEXAS – April 1, 2025 – The United Football League announced today that New Era, the global brand of sports, culture, style, and self-expression for over 100 years, will become the Official Sideline Cap and On-Field...
UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE ANNOUNCES NEW ERA AS OFFICIAL SIDELINE CAP AND ON-FIELD HEADWEAR PROVIDER

3 weeks ago | whnt.com | Mike Wade

ARLINGTON, TEXAS, April 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ARLINGTON, TEXAS – April 1, 2025 – The United Football League announced today that New Era, the global brand of sports, culture, style, and self-expression for over 100 years, will become the Official Sideline Cap and On-Field Headwear Provider for the spring league and all eight of its teams. As part of this multi-tiered partnership, New Era will serve as the co-presenting partner of the UFL Conference Championships.
UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE TO DELIVER CUTTING-EDGE DATA ANALYTICS WITH GOOGLE CLOUD

Jan 9, 2025 | kron4.com | Mike Wade

Arlington, TX, Jan. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Football League today announced that it is collaborating with Google Cloud to enhance the league’s business and football analytics capabilities heading into the UFL’s historic second season, which will kick off on Friday, March 28, at 8 p.m. ET when FOX Sports debuts FOX UFL Friday with a matchup featuring the St. Louis Battlehawks against the Houston Roughnecks.
Dunblane father calls for hotline to report concerns about gun owners

Nov 30, 2024 | thetimes.com | Mike Wade |Ed Halford

The father of schoolgirl killed in the Dunblane massacre has called for police to reintroduce a “hotline” to report erratic behaviour by gun owners after the sentencing of a man who carried out a murderous rampage on the Isle of Skye. Police officers should also be able to consult health records before granting or renewing licences for owners who display concerning traits, according to the Gun Control Network (GCN), set up after the killing of 16 children and their teacher at in 1996.
‘Now Finlay MacDonald has been found guilty, maybe Skye can have peace again’

Nov 29, 2024 | thetimes.com | Mike Wade

Finlay MacDonald became emotional only once during his two-week trail, and it was the sound of his own voice that set him off. For a couple of hours, the interview he gave to the police after his arrest in August 2022 was played to the court as evidence. Perhaps it was the whining evasions and his evident contempt for the lives of his victims that bought a guilty man to the brink of tears — or, more likely, it was simply self-pity.
Finlay MacDonald: Isle of Skye spree ‘exposed rural policing flaws’

Nov 29, 2024 | thetimes.com | Ed Halford |Mike Wade

Flaws in rural policing have been exposed by the murderous rampage of a gunman on the Isle of Skye in which two officers were ordered not to intervene, it has been claimed. Finlay MacDonald, 41, repeatedly stabbed his wife, Rowena, at Tarskavaig and then shot and killed John MacKinnon, his brother-in-law, at Teangue. He later drove on to the mainland and shot John MacKenzie and his wife, Fay, at their home in Dornie, Wester Ross.
UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE LAUNCHES EXPANSION PROCESS FOR NEW

Nov 25, 2024 | globenewswire.com | Mike Wade

Arlington, TX, Nov. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ARLINGTON, TX (November 25, 2024) - The United Football League today announced it has officially launched its first expansion process. The UFL is accepting proposals from prospective markets looking to bring spring football to their communities and be a part of the growth of the sport.
Meet the Scottish women taking the gender battle to Britain’s highest court

Nov 23, 2024 | thetimes.com | Mike Wade

It’s a question that’s been haunting politicians for years, but thanks to a handful of women who first convened in an Edinburgh flat six years ago, the finest legal brains in Britain will begin this week to determine the burning issue of our times. M’luds and ladies of the Supreme Court please tell us, what is a woman? The case has been brought by the campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) to the UK’s most powerful court and though it may seem bafflingly complex, in essence it is simple.
BBC journalist Glenn Campbell turns camera on himself for cancer journey

Nov 19, 2024 | thetimes.com | Mike Wade

For some journalists the urge to be a good reporter never dies, and that is certainly true of Glenn Campbell, who speaks directly to camera as he lies helpless in the heather, having suffered a seizure during a walk in the hills. “I think my lips are probably twitching a little bit, as well as my hand,” he reports. “That tends to be how a seizure expresses itself when you lose control of parts of your body.
Retired osteopath ‘disarmed Skye gunman after being shot in back’

Nov 18, 2024 | thetimes.com | Dave Finlay |Mike Wade

A retired osteopath disarmed a former patient after the man shot him and his wife at their family home in the Highlands, a murder trial has heard. John MacKenzie told the High Court in Edinburgh that he was returning from feeding pigs at their croft on August 10, 2022 when he heard someone shouting “Drop the weapon! Drop the weapon!” near the house. “I knew there was something wrong when I heard that,” he said.