The Business Breakfast Briefers are back and this is our 238th show with another super line up. Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to review Fridays national newspapers, discuss what is happening in their own business sector and in their own individual businesses. Plus they pick out the stories that are their Pick of the Punchlines.

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

Alex McIntyre - MP for Gloucester since 2024. He was previously an employment lawyer in the city acting for employers across the country including a large part of work with the NHS. He has recently secured £20million of long-term funding for Matson and Robinswood through the Government's Pride in Place programme which is great news for the city. We will find out more about that and we'll quiz him about life in Westminster.

Alex Giles - Chief Commercial Officer at GHS Clinics, a private medical centre in the heart of Cheltenham based in Eagle Tower. They are home to Second Prime® GHS Clinics patented longevity system that builds a unique plan to extend an individual's health span and improve their aging quota. So we will find out more about the business and how we should all be looking after ourselves more.

Amanda Toner - Director and inspiration officer at Incito Group Holdings Ltd. Amanda and her husband Paul Toner, who is the Franchisee & MD, started the company in 2016 on Westgate Street, Gloucester and now have eight McDonald's Franchises across Gloucestershire employing approx. 900 staff with a turnover of £45 million. It is a fast-food - fast business so we'll find out what's new at McDonalds.

Oli Christie - used to run Neon Play, a mobile games studio in Cirencester that got 200 million downloads, in 2016 he sold the business to Hachette, the book publisher. He is now a business coach and consultant, helping people make the most of the businesses, lives and careers, before it is too late.

We will find out how he's used social media to help grow the business.

And so much more, including: the war in the Middle East, 16-25 year olds job prospects, AI data centre cancelled, Primark's new App, TikTok, Cheltenham Festival cancellation, extra police on Gloucestershire trouble spots, saving the Lido in Stroud and finally the NHS is in trouble and should it be scraped?

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