Buckle-up your seat belts - today we're talking about drones, flying, Retailing and Education. The Business Breakfast Briefers are back, and this is our 240th show - with another great line up.

Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Moose 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.

Daniel O'Neill, co-founder of ProCook. The company has 79 stores, 800 staff, with a turnover of £86.3million. Two years ago, Daniel stepped down from the day to day running of the business. This year ProCook aims for more growth, with ambitions of 100 stores, £100m revenue and 10% operating profit margin. So how is it going and what is their secret of their success?

Kevin Robinson, co-owner of Drone Clean UK - a man who has taken cleaning to new heights, literally. Swapping ladders for cutting-edge drone tech, the company uses drones to clean towering commercial sites, large structures to hard-to-reach rooftops, their company is making the dangerous - safe and the impossible -routine. Drone clean has a turnover of over £1m and 15 pilots. We will find out how it all started and how business is up and up.Matthew Burgess, principal and CEO of Gloucestershire College - responsible for over 1000 staff, 15,000 students across three sites (Gloucester, Cheltenham and Cinderford) with a turnover of over £50million. The government has announced 19 colleges nationwide will become Technical Excellence Colleges (TEC) and Gloucestershire College will be one of them. We'll find out what that means for the students and the college's future.Andy Clarke - Phobic Flyer - Mobile Network Project & Programme Delivery Consultant Private GA Pilot and Commercial Drone Pilot. He started to learn to fly in 2013 and passed his PPL in 2020 and setup The Phobic Flyer website and social media channels in December 2021. He regularly livestreams on YouTube from the Aviator Pub at Gloucestershire Airport, providing real-time views of general aviation (GA) movements to a global audience documenting evolving landscapes and local topics from a truly bird's-eye view. In his spare time, he works for BT.

With so much more, including: vaping squirrels, mobile phone ban in schools, shop lifting, the Morgan car factory, missing A417 link road, Spec Savers recycling, new location for Cheltenham Brassier and so much more.

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

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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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. The Business Breakfast Briefer show is sponsored by Hazlewoods Accountants and Business Advisors.Jeremy Hilton (LIB DEM) - Leader of Gloucester City Council and Councillor for Kingsholm & Wotton for over 30 years.

He was first elected in 1982. Throughout his time as a councillor, he has earned a reputation as being one of the most hard-working members of the council in Gloucester. Make no bones about it this is a difficult job at one of the most difficult times in the city’s history, with devolution down the tracks, the city’s finances stretched, Gloucestershire airport sale fallen through – there are positives signs of the city’s renaissance. We’ll find out more. Julie Sargent – CEO – Cheltenham Lido – 50m heated outdoor swimming pool, that combines fitness, health and wellbeing. It has 100 staff, a turnover of £1million and receives over 240,000 visitors per year. Julie joined the team in 1996 as the first employee of Lido Ltd. This is a tough business – rising energy & staff costs, customers feeling the pinch, how does she balance it all. Plus Julie gives us a breaking news story on the future of the Lido!Marc Begg - Managing director of Cirencester Fabrication Services. Marc bought the business during the height of the pandemic and increased sales in the first year by 20%. He then launched a new company called Kyeburn and brought another - Muntions Traditional Plant Support. The company has 35 staff and a turnover of £1.5million. Like the Lido he faces cost of energy, staffing, fuel all going up, we find out how he managing to balance it all.Deirdre Clarke – owner – Off the Rails Café, a delightful small café set within one of the loveliest stations in the country – Kemble Station. Its renowned for its lovely homemade food, great coffee and great service. We’ll find out all about it.And so much more, including: the war in the Middle East, rising cost of energy, possible mortgage interest going up and inflationary pressures, Meta & Facebook facing age restrictions,. NHS doctors and dentists being Uber drivers, price of steel going up 30% to 50%, Next sales results, Gloucester Quays three new restaurants to open, Joe Brown opens in Cirencester, Gloucestershire food support scheme and so much more.Its all here in the Punchline!!