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.

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

This week's panel of experts were:

Sarah Mansfield - Joint MD and co-owner of the Gloucester Food Dock.

The new £3.5million food and hospitality hot house has been open to the public for 8 months now with 12 of its proposed 15 business now trading. We find out who's next, and their timetables, plus who is trading the best as we lead up to the all-important Christmas trading period.

Simon Hewer - has just become the CEO of Hewer FM.

The company, based at Waterwells Business Park, has a turnover of £21million with over 140 staff and is a major regional player in the heating and renewables sector. It has just gone through a management buyout, so we'll find out all about that - hopefully the do's and don'ts of an MBO but also what it means for the company long term.

David Morton - headmaster of King's School in Gloucester.

The school currently has 750 pupils, 230 staff and a turnover in excess of £12 million. Now the summer holidays are over and we are all heading into a new term, we find out what the new governments increase on VAT on independent schools means for King's but also the wider education system in Gloucestershire.

Rowan Elliott - is managing director of Allstones and Speedy Skips 

The company has a turnover in excess £16 million and staff - In terms of what comes in from Speedy skips customers - 98% recycled. So, we'll find out about that and the overall market sector in aggregates and also, how it's been taking over from Simon Ford as he becomes the companies CEO. 

Another jam packed show as always. Also covered today: junk food, Palace of Westminster renovations, apprenticeships, HS2, Zoopla and rental costs, massive skills gap, social housing short fall, Stroud Brewery, cyber-attack on Tewkesbury, first tenant at Gloucester's £107miilion Digital Forum city centre regeneration and much, much more.