Mary Perkins running PR. She has admitted donning disguises and visiting Specsavers stores, posing as a customer. Perkins was made an honorary fellow of Cardiff University in 2005. The same year she received the "Rotary International Community and Vocational Service Award" for her services to charity and in 2006 won the inaugural Spirit of everywoman Award. Perkins was the first female optician in the UK to receive the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2007. The accolade was also in recognition of her other charitable work, including the Guernsey annual "Specsavers Liberation Tea Dance for
Co-Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, Senj Co-Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, Senj The Co-Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary ( ) also called Senj Co-Cathedral Is a Catholic temple in Senj, Croatia. Once it was the main cathedral of the diocese of Senj, it is now the co-cathedral of the diocese of Gospić-Mark. The Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary was built in 1169 as a Romanesque basilica of a single nave on the foundations of a pagan temple of the fourth and fifth centuries, whose remains are still visible at the back of the sanctuary at about 1.5 meters deep. The façade and the