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.
Wigan Council paid out £375,000 to fraudulent claims for emergency Covid business support
manchestereveningnews.co.uklocal authority has identified more than £1.1m in overpayments for 96 claims made as part of three government grant schemes it administered.
Most of these were payment errors and a further four were ineligible claims.So far, the council has recovered around half a million pound in overpayments.But £343,000 paid out to 28 fraudulent claims for grants is still oustanding.It comes after the council handed around £80m in emergency financial support to businesses based in the borough during the coronavirus crisis.Deputy chief executive Paul McKevitt told the audit committee this week that the council's priority was to distribute the funding as quickly as possible.He said: "We could have been tougher in terms of what we asked businesses for but.
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