Oldies in contact lenses

Has the contact lens fraternity found a new advocate in Richard Branson's mum. Perhaps so if the report in Today's Daily Telegraph is anything to go by.

In it Eve Branson explains ' the truth' behind her rescue by Kate Winslet when Branson's Carribean hideaway recently went up in flames.

She insisted she wasn't in fact 90, perhaps 86 or 87 and that she didn't need to be carried down the stairs." I would have got down those stairs all right on my own but it was dark and slippery and I didn't have my contact lenses in.  Sign her up!