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.
Hundreds of new homes to be built on old mill site despite fears of 'over-development'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukHundreds of new homes are to be built on the site of a burnt down mill despite fears over congestion, flooding and loss of green space.
Proposals for a 311-home estate, at the former Rex Mill site, in Middleton, were passed by a majority vote at the latest meeting of Rochdale council’s planning committee.
The Kellen Homes development, off Don Street, will include 45 affordable homes - four specially adapted for disabled people - as well as 99 ‘built-to-rent’ properties.
The site - which also includes the old British Vita playing fields - is split between two ‘parcels’ either side of the River Irk.
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