"Friends were amazed at the difference"

When his hearing problems suddenly improved, Tommy Robinson admits his friends were puzzled. He hadn't told anyone he was going to Amplifon and the hearing aids were so small that nobody noticed them in his ears.

"One of my friends said, 'Tommy, you seem to be hearing much better, what have you done?'," he says. "I took one of my hearing aids and showed him and he said, 'Wow, I didn't know you could get them so amain"

Tommy had booked an appointment for a free hearing test after wife Eileen spotted an advertisement for Amplifon. He now wishes he had gone much sooner.

"It was vanity, to be honest, but as I got older I realised I was missing a lot of conversations," he says. "When you haven't got hearing aids, you seem to hear everything else but the person you are trying to concentrate on. My hearing aids have made a massive difference. They're fantastic. They're brilliant and the value is just unbelievable."

One big benefit is that he can now hear every word his grandchildren say. "Before, my grandchildren would be saying things to me and I wouldn't hear a thing, or I would have to keep asking them to repeat things," he says. "Now I have laughs and jokes with them — and I can hear when they are making fun of me or they're up to mischief. To be honest I should have gone to Amplifon much earlier than I did. Now I can really enjoy time with my grandchildren." ■