A week of news - not so silly season

Summer months in the UK normally bring two things - silly season news stories and an easy commute – but there is little evidence of either thus far.

An unprecedented mudslide near Optician HQ caused havoc getting home on Monday, wiping away any possible benefit from the schools being off in one fell swoop.

And while the royal wedding and phone hacking scandal have made way to a deluge of plastic bags and weather stories in the national press, optics is coming into its own.

This week's magazine includes a war of words over children's eye testing, the inclusion of optics as a public health indicator and news of a contact lens clampdown by the General Optical Council.