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.
Sign up to the free MyBury newsletter to get the best stories direct to your inbox While it began as a small bakery 170 years ago, Holland’s Pies is now one of the best-known pie manufacturers in the UK.
Holland’s started life as a small shop in Haslingden in 1851, selling pies as well as cakes and bread to hungry locals but before long the company had outgrown its base and in 1929 took over a disused cotton mill in Baxenden.
Textile mills don’t offer the typical layout for a food production factory and so it took six years to convert the building.
Holland’s is still based at that former mill today with 95% of employees coming from the local area. One of those employees is Noel Duffy from Baxenden who has worked for Holland’s for 41 years.
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