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:

Richard Graham was MP for Gloucester for 14 years until the recent general election when he lost his seat to Labour. In his time in Parliament, Richard worked under five different Prime Ministers, been various envoys, championed the city, regeneration, history and its business and community. He's the Chairman of the Gloucester History Festival, so we'll find out what's next for this successful event and what's next for Richard.

Alistair Cunningham OBE - CEO of Tewkesbury Borough Council, responsible for a budget of £65million, 220 staff and providing services to over 98,000 people. This year the council decided to rebrand to North Gloucestershire Borough Council - we'll find out why and how it's going, and we'll look at the councils plans for the new 'garden communities' at Ashchurch.

Priti Diniz - MD and founder of Pretty Smart Business Solutions - the company helps businesses win work the pretty smart way. Specialising in management of BIDs & BID writing - they have worked with companies like Siemens energy, SSE, Balfour Beatty, Total Energies and many more. So, we'll find out all about that and we'll ask for her top three tips in writing a Bid.

Another jam-packed edition as always - also covered today: The budget, care home workers salary increases, Storm Milton & flooding in Gloucestershire, the Tewkesbury Bridge to no-where, the Railway Triangle, Charlton King's library, Gloucester's newest pub - the Thirsty Pine and much, much more.