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.
Council fires librarian who questioned Chinese involvement in shopping centre
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up for the MyWigan newsletter for the biggest stories direct to your inbox A loyal librarian of 34 years has been dismissed after she raised concerns about Chinese involvement in plans to redevelop a shopping centre.
Maureen O'Bern, 58, was suspended by Wigan council after she criticised its regeneration project at The Galleries shopping centre earlier this year.
In social media posts, Ms O'Bern, who worked at Leigh Library, criticised the involvement of Beijing Construction Engineering Group International (BCEGI) - a state-owned Chinese firm - in the £130m masterplan.
The council hopes to build a new 150-room hotel, 464 homes and a multimedia centre with a cinema, ten-lane bowling alley and indoor mini golf as part of the
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