Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to review Fridays national & regional newspapers, discuss what is happening in their own business sector and in their own individual businesses. 

Finally, they round off by picking the stories that have caught their eye in this week's Punchline-Gloucester.com.

Taking their places on the business briefing panel this week were:

• Ian Mean - ex editor of the Gloucester Citizen and Cheltenham Echo and Western Daily Press, director Business West and vice chair of Gloucestershire LEP
• Will Abbott - partner at Randall & Payne accountants
• Lindsey Holland - owner of The Cleeve Hill Hotel, chair of TURF Cheltenham, Executive of Cheltenham Chamber of Commerce
• Viv Hargreaves - former editor of county publications and Forester Newspaper, chair of Gloucestershire Academy for Music, chair of Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra, chair of Gloucestershire Young Musicians and Deputy Lord Lieutenant for the Queen in Gloucestershire.

It is a lively informative chat with the panel working their way through the national papers before getting behind the nitty gritty of their own businesses and market place. A fully-packed show.

The panel fire through lots of subjects, with news and views and there is something to learn for everyone who is interested in business from the people who are at the sharp end of running their companies. It is well worth the investment of time to listen to four top experts - in business you never stop learning.