Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Controversial plans to extract two million tonnes of stone at quarry could get go ahead
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA quarry firm will this week hear if their intention to extend their site to dig out millions of tonnes of stone has been successful.
Armstrong’s, who currently operate Montcliffe quarry, off Georges Lane in Horwich, close to Rivington Pike and the West Pennine moors, intend to extend the site northwards.
The plans are a resubmission of a previous application which was refused by Bolton Council in March 2021 for three reasons, harm to landscape character, inappropriate development in the green belt and harm to biodiversity.
Bolton’s planning committee will decide the latest application on Thursday, July 21. In planning documents submitted to the council Armstrong’s said that they now proposed a shallower quarry depth meaning that 820,000 fewer tonnes of mineral would be extracted and the anticipated time-scales for completion of extraction works would be 14 years rather than the originally anticipated 20 years. READ MORE: UK heatwave LIVE weather, traffic and school closures updates with red extreme heat warning in place In total, Armstrong’s plan to extract 1.93 million tonnes of grit stone for the production of high quality stone and aggregates.
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