Dame Judi Dench's eye sight at risk

Dame Judi Dench has revealed that she's suffering from macular degeneration and needs help of somebody to read her scripts.

However, she said she hoped recent treatment had stopped the progressive decline.

Speaking in an interview with the Daily Mirror, she said: "I can't read scripts any more before because of the trouble with my eyes and so somebody comes and reads them to me, like telling me a story."

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is results in loss of the centre of the visual field due to damage to a part of the retina called the macular, most commonly affects people over 50 and affects almost 240,000 people in the UK.