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Seeing flashing lights in your vision can be unsettling. In this guide, we explain what causes flashes, when they’re harmless and when it’s important to seek urgent eye care.

Find the perfect sunglasses for your face shape and discover 2025's hottest trends

The truth about myopia in children and what parents can do to help

You’re outside enjoying the sunshine, you check your phone… and suddenly, you can’t see a thing on the screen. Sound familiar?

Are designer glasses and sunglasses really worth the money?

Presbyopia: A normal part of ageing

An eye examination is about so much more than just what you can see...

Practical advice on what to do if you've been told you have cataracts

When it comes to eyecare, the terms optician and optometrist are often confused. So, what's the difference?

Driving at night can be a challenge, with reduced visibility and dazzling headlights making conditions even trickier.

We don't give our sight a second thought until our glasses start slipping down our noses, and suddenly, it becomes all we can think about!

Winter driving poses unique challenges. Are your glasses winter ready?

Enjoy the Best Vision This Winter: Including Tips for Safer Driving

Have you ever noticed tiny specks, strings or cobweb shapes drifting across your vision? These are called floaters.

Your eye examination is due, so where's the best place to get an eye test?

What age should your child have an eye test, is the school vision screening enough, and what can your child expect from an optician visit?

Why did this dress divide the internet? What colour do you see it; black and blue or white and gold?

When choosing new glasses there are many decisions you're faced with. Which frame should I choose? What type of lens is best for me? Without seeing your face shape and prescription it would be hard to answer these questions but one question we can always answer with a certain "Yes!" is "Do I need anti-reflective coatings on my glasses?". What are anti-reflective coatings? Anti-reflective coatings reduce reflective light on the surface of glasses lenses. The coating allows lig

So, it's been a week since the majority of the UK were blessed with a sky full of aurora borealis... except those of us who were fast asleep! The most common question I've been asked (apart from whether I saw them!) was why the colours of the Northern Lights were much more visible through a phone camera than with the naked eye. Let's dig into the anatomy of how our eyes work, and process light, to better understand why our phone cameras have the upper hand... The human eye ha

Chances are, if you know anyone who knows anyone who's tried varifocals, you've heard the horror stories! We've heard everything from "my next door neighbour's cousin didn't get on with varifocals" to "I don't want varifocals, they're for old people!", but the most common thing we hear is... "I didn't get on with varifocals when I tried them 15 years ago." My reply to this statement is always, "would you be happy with the mobile phone you had 15 years ago?" and the answer is,