Ramadan heralds windfall for London businesses

A doorman at Harrods department store puts a customers purchases in the boot of a Dubai registered car in London. - AFP/JUSTIN TALLIS

LONDON: Inside an upmarket London department store a genteel Middle Eastern woman glides by, trailing flowing robes and the distinctive smell of oud, a perfume popular with Arab women.

Outside, petrol fumes fill the air and motors roar, as young Arab men rev the engines of some of the world's most expensive cars at a traffic light.