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World Sight Day Cycling Challenge

A group of optometry students are set to complete a World Sight Day Challenge fundraising first by cycling from Glasgow to Cardiff. The ‘Optoms Cycling for Sight’ sponsored bike ride will link UK optometry departments across 10 days, starting at Glasgow Caledonian University on 13th September before making stops at Bradford, Manchester, Aston, Anglia, City and finishing at Cardiff University on 23rd September. The initiative has being initiated by Bradford University students Jessica MacIsaac, Fares Hatoum and Abubakr Patel. Jessica, Optometry Today Student Representative, comments: “Optoms Cycling for Sight aims to get all optometry students as a united force behind the World Sight Day Challenge, as we can play a critical role in helping to provide access to eye care in the developing world”. Jessica Explains “Hopefully the success of this will lead to annual event where we can continue to make a difference to the 670 million people who are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye examination and a pair of spectacles.” Read more...

My Local Optician - World Sight Day Cycling Challenge

Shamir Lenses

Very pleased to have three pages about all the different lenses from Shamir. You can read about Occupational Lenses - Shamir Office, Shamir Computer, Shamir Workspace, and Shamir Smart Office as well as their sports lenses - Shamir Proline, Shamir Golf, and Shamir Ski.



My Local Optician - Shamir Lenses

FODO Publishes Optics at a Glance

Some interesting stats on the optical sector have just been published by FODO...

My Local Optician - FODO Publishes Optics at a Glance

Tom Davies Limited Edition Feminine Styles

TD Tom Davies introduces 6 new feminine Limited Edition designs for Autumn/Winter 2011/12July 2011 sees the launch of 6 new feminine spectacle styles, available in Limited Editions of just 50 pieces per style. Inspired by a vintage aesthetic, each design is produced in the highest quality acetate, highlighting the feminine qualities of this material and experimenting with graduated colour (model LE 37670), striped effects (LE 37679) and an opaque/transparent contrast (model LE 27977). Read more...

http://www.mylocaloptician.co.uk/subcontent.asp?id=46&subid=362

Bushnell Eyewear Division

News of the creation of Bushnell Eyewear division which will oversee the Bollé, Bollé Safety, Cébé and Serengeti eyewear brands.

Bushnell Eyewear Division's Aolivier Ciaravino

Itchy and Inflamed Eyelids?

Well, we've added a page on blepharitis. Not only that, we have information on products that may help from Spectrum Thea. They also do products for dry eye and you can read all about that too and other simple eye conditions, a page which we've hopefully made a bit easier to navigate. Let us know what you think.

Charity Pages

We're always happy to highlight charities and support groups on our charity pages. All we ask for is a link back to our site. We've just added MACS (The Micro and Anophthalmic Children’s Society) and Sight Aid International.

Silhouette add colour to Zenlight

The new colourways include Yellow Spirit, Purple Dream, Green Strength and Red Action. Each of these fresh and dynamic colours is in keeping with the current colour-blocking trend, and in the Zenlight the colours are applied to translucent framed backgrounds. Full story here

 

Silhouette Zenlight

 

 

We're back!

We've neglected our blog a little of late, but aim to change that. We'll continue to post interesting stories and product updates, and we also aim to highlight interesting pages on the site that you may find useful.

My Local Optician - MP Visits Taunton Practice

My Local Optician - MP Visits Taunton Practice

We report on Taunton Deane MP, Jeremy Browne, taking time to visit a Taunton Opticians,
(29-1-11) to see the benefits of a new NHS urgent eye care service.

Getting listed

We're going all social media. Facebook's linked to twitter - now the turn of the blog to get listed. Technorati for starters - RFNDZVES9VG6.

Find Local Opticians - My Local Optician

Find Local Opticians - My Local Optician

All our England listings are live and all our home visits optician listing are live for England, Scotland and Wales. Making the final touches to the Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland optician listing - live at the end of this week.

My Local Optician - Better Vision for the Elderly

My Local Optician - Better Vision for the Elderly

Through to the end of February 2011 we are running a much needed campaign to improve and retain good vision in the elderly.


We all tend to assume that in these days of knowledge and high speed communications that failing vision and increasing numbers of people living with sight loss is more likely to be a reference to a Third World country, but not so, 1.8 million people in this country have some form of sight loss. What is really incredible is that over one half of this number could have better vision simply by taking a sight test and getting a new pair of specs...