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Chris Bennett: What are you doing for National Eye Health Week?

Chris Bennett
By the time most people read this Scotland will have voted on independence

By the time most people read this Scotland will have voted on independence (16.06.14). That debate certainly seems to have occupied minds north of the Border, but fear not, there is still time to act on National Eye Health Week which starts on Monday.

The NEHW website's list of what is going on catalogues a range of activity and the South East looks to be leading the way. This region boasts 14 events against just two listed in Scotland but there are sure to be many more that didn't make it to the list.

As ever it is the individual practitioners that make events like NEHW real. In Scotland that means local optom Lloyd Griffiths  holding an ask the expert session in Elgin while in Glasgow Pinders Opticians is holding a children's day. The busy south east sees everything from cake sales and coffee mornings to the most intruiging quiz at the Reliance Fish Bar in Gravesend. In between are carrot walks in Birmingham, school assemblies in Chester and spectacle cleaning in Prestwich.

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