I was staying in Pickering on family business (bereavement). I experienced rather alarming problems in one eye - maybe just very intense black floaters, but very intrusive, and as my mother had glaucoma and woke up one morning to find herself blind in one eye, I thought I better get it checked out. It seems the only optician in Pickering is Robinsons, so I visited their Eastgate premises and explained the problem. I was eventually phoned back and told that because I don't have a local GP - big surprise, I live in London - the optician would not deign to look into my eye and tell me whether there was a major problem or not. I'm up here for a week - let's hope it's nothing serious. I am disgusted by their attitude. .