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I read with some interest today of the England cricket team’s 3-0 destruction of Australia in the Ashes. I can assure you that this was not an archive article or Kevin Pietersen’s discarded plan of action before his messy exit last week. Instead, it was the story of the England blind cricket team beating their Australian counterparts in [...]

….and I’m here on work experience at Optician for one week in an attempt to kick-start a career in journalism by picking up a few hints and tips that could help me to a long and successful career (I’m trying to be optimistic!) I am currently studying magazine journalism in Portsmouth after two years as [...]

Rock’n’roll legend Lou Reed has been forced to ditch his ever-present sunglasses in favour of regular specs after repeatedly tripping up on stage. Shades have played a key role in Reed’s iconic look, from his inception as the Velvet Underground’s frontman and through his long and varied solo career. But is the idea of glasses [...]

The marine biology community has been awash with excitement this week as some lucky representatives of it took apart a colossal squid. Caught last year in the Ross Sea off Antarctica, the specimen is only the 10th of its kind unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of scalpel-wielding scientists. The creature’s eyes have been [...]

Readers of Optician will no doubt appreciate the careful blend of features published each issue; a delicate balance of the clinical and the topical, the far-reaching and the fashionable. Such perfection does not come easily and the consistently high standard achieved over the past year or two can be credited to one woman: Shannon McKenzie. [...]