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.
One in three high school students absent in Bolton after huge Covid variant spike
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter Nearly a third of high school students in Bolton were absent from school because of Covid-19 on the worst day for attendances since the latest spike in cases.
Figures show that 31.5 percent of secondary school pupils in the town reported absences on May 27, with a further 21 percent of primary school pupils also off.
In comparison, the average Covid absence rate for the whole of the North West was just four percent, data from the Department for Education shows.
Bolton has been experiencing a huge spike in coronavirus cases since late April, driven by the Delta variant. This train of the virus was initially discovered in India, and is more
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