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 ordered to drop £7,500 in care fees after failing vulnerable man who did not understand bills
manchestereveningnews.co.ukRochdale council has been ordered to waive more than £7,000 in care fees after failing to provide adequate support to a ‘vulnerable’ man who was ‘unable’ to manage his own finances.
An ombudsman’s investigation found the authority’s failings not only led to ‘Mr Y’ - who has autism, depression, anxiety, and short-term memory issues - racking up a ‘significant debt’, but also caused him distress.
A scathing report says the council had been aware of Mr Y’s inability to manage his finances and paperwork since 2015, yet ‘had not done enough’ to put adequate support in place’.
This, it adds, had left him with a large debt which was ‘primarily of the authority’s making’. The council must now forgo £7,558.17 in charges dating back to October 2016.
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