Chris Bennett: Staying ahead by staying informed

This week’s round up of news reminds us just how quickly some things change and how others remain unaltered.

Optician’s top 10 picks from the news pile are a million miles away from what we might have expected. The unpredictability of news is what makes it interesting, and important, to watch. The trick is not becoming so fixated on one thing you find others creep up on you. Stay informed so you can react to events in the best manner

Optician has largely been a Brexit-free zone bar a flurry of activity after the public voted to leave the European Union. Few would have predicted the intractable nature of negotiations or the tangents on which the Brexit agenda has been sent. But what of the collateral damage done while we all stare transfixed into the Brexit black hole of rhetoric? How many people simply switch the news off out of sheer Brexit-induced frustration?