The festival is an important auction market for purebred camels, and as well as commandinghigh prices, award-winning specimens can confer immense prestige on their owners.
With the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates extremely low, high-dividend-paying stocks have been commanding a premium from investors seeking to boost income generated by their portfolios.
There are other lesser known champagne houses that undercut their more famous brethren, and while harder to find in this country, there are also plenty of high quality French sparkling wines from outside the Champagne region commanding far lower prices.
He said the advent of rolling 24-hour news has had a "profound effect" on policing, with commanding officers often spending more than half their time dealing with the media on high-profile cases.