Optician news in brief

Vision charity the Eyecare Trust has made promoting regular eye examinations a key objective of its strategy for the next three years. The trust has published its 2011-2014 Charity Plan, which also sets out to form 'a series of strategic alliances' to tackle both age and obesity-related vision loss. Chairman, Dharmesh Patel, said eye care was missing the health agenda of too many people.

A tribute to Made in Italy eyewear has been on display in Turkey during the past two weeks. The 'Eyewear, a never-ending Italian Story' exhibition was held at Harvey Nichols department store in Istanbul from June 30 to July 14. Taking up 8,000 square metres of the store, a timeline showed the evolution of Italian glasses.