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.
Work stopped on demolishing West Lothian 'ghost town' as deadly substance found
dailyrecord.co.ukHalloween gremlins have stopped work on the demolition of West Lothian’s ghost estate.No sooner had the excavator’s hydraulic grab moved in to take roof blocks off the shell of a home in Deans South than work was stopped to investigate possible asbestos.Kerry Mackintosh and her family planned to be on site to watch the house they had fought to leave for 18 years demolished by Beattie Demolition contractors on Monday morning.Monday was the culmination of a long campaign for a new home in exchange for the former council house she had bought before it was condemned for its porous concrete roof.But after a weekend of mixed emotion and disturbed sleep there were only more delays.
Kerry was getting ready to drive across Livingston to watch her old home in Deans South demolished when the phone call came.“I’d been excited and psyched up for the demolition.
Then I got the phone call and my heart just sank.” she said on Monday.It took 18 years to win a deal secured when Springfield Properties bought the Deans South from West Lothian Council.
Most of the estate’s empty and boarded homes have already been demolished.The street where Kerry and neighbours, Joe and Isobel Baxter, had also bought their house is one of the last to goDemolition work stopped as Springfield Properties staff made the call to her about asbestos fears.
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