Bern crowds scramble for solar eclipse sunglasses

In the city of Bern the shortage of protective glasses in the run-up to the solar eclipse on Wednesday has resulted in a long queue. Several hundred people were waiting outside the specialist shop Foto Zumstein Video on Tuesday afternoon. The queue, which was around 200 metres long, stretched all the way round the block, according to a reporter from the Swiss New Agency Keystone-SDA. A Swissinfo journalist also witnessed the queue. At 1:45pm, around 300 people were hoping to buy a pair of…