Gearing up to fight Gloucestershire's corner in the national ring

Gloucestershire has lost its voice of business, GFirst LEP, but work is afoot to create a powerful regional organisation to ensure the county is heard, writes Ian Mean, director of Business West.

Over 20 years of editing newspapers in Gloucestershire and Bristol, I have often felt frustrated by the lack of joined up business and leadership thinking in our region.

Why Oh why does this upper part of the South West seem to me to be so often ignored by government?

Do you agree with me? Surely, the innovation and great businesses in our region need t…