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.
Plans to build flood storage basin on children’s play area in town centre park
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA park’s children’s play area is set to be used as a flood overflow area with a ‘storage basin’ created to divert rising water from nearly 300 homes and businesses.
Horwich town centre has a ‘long and repeated history of flooding’ from Pearl Brook, occurring in 1946, 1951, 1964, 1992, 2002, 2004 (three times) and 2012.
Flooding most recently hit the area on Boxing Day 2015, when several properties were affected in Back Emmett Street. Other affected areas from Pearl Brook breaking its banks include Winter Hey Lane and Mason Street areas.
Plans will go before councillors later this week to use Old Station Park, in St John Street, as a flood overflow area. The proposals also includes relocating the current children’s play area elsewhere in the park and refurbishing a multi-use games area, which was previously used as a contractors’ compound for during the construction of the new leisure centre. READ MORE: Green light for bus reform: What does it mean for passengers? Several mature trees will also be lost if the project is approved with council officers stated that there could be ‘biodiversity net loss’.
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