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

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

The Business Breakfast Briefer show is sponsored by Hazlewoods Accountants and Business Advisors.

This week's panel of experts were:

Alistair Cunningham OBE - CEO of Tewkesbury Borough Council, responsible for a budget of £13million, 220 staff and providing services to over 98,000 people.

18 months ago he moved from Wiltshire. He was awarded his OBE for his contribution during the 2018 Novichok incident in Salisbury and Amesbury. We find out what the difference is between running Wiltshire and Tewkesbury, and his views and plans for the new 'garden communities' at Ashchurch.

Amanda Toner - co-owner and inspirational officer at Incito Group - the company that holds the franchise for the all eight McDonalds stores in Gloucestershire, with 1,100 staff and a turnover of £41million.

She is just back from a global McDonalds conference held in Barcelona and shares her view on the future of the business as it adapts more and more to the digital age. This is a company that never stops changing, challenging and growing. Plus of course dealing with a client base and staff, covering all the generations including - generation GLASS.

Peter Miles - MD at Forge Motorsport UK and Forge Engineering - the company has 54 staff based at its Bristol Road HQ, five in USA and five in Taiwan. Turnover is £5.5million down 20% on last year and Peter explains, honestly about the difficult situation that the company finds its self in as he battles ever rising costs and competition, and how determined he is to keep the business going.

Mark Hurrell - is the newly elected High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. The ex-editor, presenter, producer, managing director of BBC radio Gloucestershire has now retired from the Beeb - but he still motors on. He has just been installed as the new High Sherriff following his public Declaration at Gloucester's historic cathedral on April 14.

The role, which is largely ceremonial, has been in existence for over a thousand years and is a Crown appointment. We find out all about that and what he hopes to achieve in his year in office.

Today was jam packed show as always. Also covered in todays show: Flooding in Dubai, Water Companies and the rise in their company CEO's pay at the same time huge rise in sewage into our rivers, sick note Britain, the BIG English Fry UP is in danger, mobile phone usage for children and much, much more....