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 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:

David Morton - headmaster of King's School, Gloucester. The school currently has 750 pupils, 230 staff and a turnover in excess of £12 million. What does the government's increase on VAT on independent schools means for King's School and the wider education system in Gloucestershire?

Rob Lister - sales and marketing director of Lister Unified Communications. The Stonehouse-based company has 40 staff and a turnover of approximately £6 million. The hot ticket in town for the communications industry is IoT (the Internet of Things), but what is it and how will affect all our businesses?

Greg Pilley - managing director of Stroud Brewery, established in 2006 as a passion project by Greg, it makes great tasting, ethical and organic beer. The company employs over 100 staff and has a turnover of approximately £2 million. It also has a great restaurant! The hospitality industry is a tough one - so we'll hear from Greg on how NI, minimum wage and energy costs rises are affecting his business and the brewery industry and how important this time of year is to his business.

Andrew Malley - property director for Dransfield Properties Ltd - the owners of Five Valleys Shopping Centre in Stroud. It's been an eight-year, £30 million regeneration development in the heart of the town - it's an amazing transformation. We'll find out all about that and what's coming next.

Another jam packed edition as always. Also covered today - government housing targets of 1.5 million homes, 97% of council employees are still working from home says a new report, the future of school examinations (will they be all online?), council planning departments or lack of them, Forest Green Rovers' new £100 million eco park, pubs turned into housing, The Gloucester Old Spot Pub and much, much more.