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  • Now, alongisde Bristol-based producer Redlight, she's blasting some Ayia Napa sunshine on to the pasty perineum of January with this bouncy mash of 90s piano house and old-school garage.

    This week's new singles 2012

  • But this month Yves Saint Laurent launches Rouge Pur Couture, a collection of 18 pigment-heavy shades made infinitely wearable by the genius inclusion of a glimmering white lipstick (£22, selfridges. com) that can be worn over the darker colours (including a cola brown that both intrigues and terrifies me, like Cherry Coke, or Ayia Napa) to soften and pale them, thereby creating your very own perfectly wearable red.

    Kiss and make-up: dark lipstick Eva Wiseman 2010

  • Happily, Becky's irritating sister Kylie is moving to Ayia Napa, now that she has found love with the latest of Corrie's Funny Foreigners, Dimitri.

    Jim Shelley's World of lather Jim Shelley 2010

  • In Greece, tourists regularly watch the firewalkers at the village of Ayia Eleni, acolytes who believe that the presence of Saint Constantine protects them.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • But you had to walk only a few hundred yards from the night club and you found yourself in another world, standing before the ancient edifice of Ayia Sophia, once a cathedral but now a Muslim mosque; and nearby the Great Inn or Khan where Turkish travellers stayed, their rooms surrounding a great courtyard in which were tethered the donkeys and camels on which they had come in from their villages and farms.

    The Cyprus Question 1958

  • Ayia Napa, Cyprus's chief clubbing town, has given the island a reputation as an up-and-coming party destination.

    CNN.com 2011

  • Ferdinand has tackled countless challenges throughout his career, some self-inflicted like a teenage propensity for alcopops, to an unfortunate video in Ayia Napa to that missed drugs test, but a love of the game and a deep determination has seen him recover.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Henry Winter 2011

  • In the week it came out he was stabbed in Ayia characters left.

    Evening Standard - Home Alistair Foster 2011

  • The Sun Cyprus is still easy on the Ayia - 23 hrs ago

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2010

  • The Sun Cyprus is still easy on the Ayia - 24 hrs ago

    British Blogs BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2010

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