Colin Black steps down from practice role

Co-founder and principal optometrist of Scottish optical chain Black & Lizars, Colin Black, has bowed out after 43 years in the profession.

He will be succeeded at the group's Fenwick Road practice in Glasgow by colleagues Graham Freeman, Brenda Quirk and Angela Gosine, but remain with Black & Lizars as senior clinical adviser.

Black said: ‘I have been very fortunate over the course of my career to have had such dedicated and able staff, without whom the development of clinical excellence would not have been possible.

‘I am immensely grateful to my original Black & Lizars co-directors, optometrists, ophthalmology colleagues and GPs who have been so incredibly supportive over the years. I am also grateful to have had the most incredible, loyal, varied, interesting and appreciative patients.’