The tiny town is more relaxed than Calvi but the beach is just as popular.

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The singer is also nominated for the breakthrough act award along with Sheeran, Jessie J, Anna Calvi and The Vaccines.

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Calvi, known as God's Banker because of his close ties to the Vatican, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.

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They identified the man who was gunned down in his car in the town of Calvi on Friday as a recently released convict.

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However, another man had been arrested on Friday in Calvi for possession of explosives, although it was not immediately clear if the later bombings were linked to his case.

BBC: Man killed and homes bombed in fresh Corsica violence

Although he was never arrested, the fallout from that scandal took a darker turn when two of its top executives, one of them its chairman, Roberto Calvi, were murdered.

BBC: Vatican Bank 'investigated over money-laundering'

The small picturesque port town of Calvi in the northwest is a good place to start, whether you arrive by ferry from France or by air from the nearby airport.

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Part of that new evidence is testimony given in 2004 and 2005 during inquiries in Rome into the murder in June 1982 of Roberto Calvi, Banco Ambrosiano's chairman, just before the bank's collapse.

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The prosecutors in Palermo want to ascertain if Mr Calvi, whom they describe as having been a beneficiary of substantial Mafia financing, made any investment in Fininvest in the first half of the 1970s.

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Gian Michele Calvi, an expert in earthquake engineering who is one of the indicted seven, says the commission recognised that L'Aquila is in a highly seismic zone, and that a powerful earthquake could therefore happen at any time.

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