Afternoons with Helen Farmer

It might be so busy on a weekend, but what do you do from Monday? We have top tips for restaurant operators on how to distinguish between a temporary squeeze and a business model that isn't working.

We also meet the man behind a pizza place who is so confident in opening during COVID and during more uncertain times.

We fill you with lots of foodie talk from hand...

Dubai is an amazing place to raise kids, but when five-star hotels, holidays, brunches, deliveries and household help are just part of everyday life, how do we teach our children to appreciate more what they have?

And probably the remaining weeks of summer break is your time to declutter... the help you need is here.

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A Porter Airlines flight, which was preparing to depart from Victoria to Toronto had to return to the terminal as a "young child was standing in their seat and would not secure their seat belt". The delay meant the flight could not depart before the runway closed after midnight so passengers had to be rebooked on a flight the following day. Discussing travel etiquette, cruise...

If you graduated from a university in the UK, what happened to your student loan? Have you finished paying it off, or is it still hanging over you 17 years later?

Sending children to private schools here in the UAE takes a huge chunk out of our budget. So, how much do we actually need to spend to give our kids a good education?

A new report suggests that, for ma...

Many experienced women are finding it hard to find employment nowadays. What does ageism in recruitment actually look like?

Dubai Police have joined us to talk about Hemaya International Centre and how 1,402 students from 31 nationalities graduated through its 2026 Summer Student Programme.

We meet a teenager who has lived with more than 50 severe food allergies...