Chris Bennett: Seeing through the season of mists

Autumn’s mists and mellow fruitfulness were immortalised by Keats but as this week’s In Focus reveals the season’s maturing sun takes its toll on wellbeing and can be a tough time for the eyes.

The onset of shorter, darker days would have been familiar to Keats’ contemporaries but today there are a whole host of new visual challenges. Halloween brings on the familiar problems with cosmetic contact lenses, Guy Fawkes Night was until recently a grim night for the emergency services, on the roads the clocks going back bring a host of problems not least the scourge of High Intensity Discharge headlamps.