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 tax to rise after councillors agree budget plans at meeting where Tory described as 'Tameside Trump'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCouncillors have agreed to hike council tax by nearly five per cent at a meeting where one Labour member described his Tory opposition as the ‘Tameside Trump’.
On Tuesday night, a majority of members of the full council voted in favour of the budget for 2023/24 which includes a maximum council tax rise of 4.99 pc and £15.776m in cuts.
For a Band A property, the most common type in Tameside, it will see the annual bill rise by £54.96 a year from April – without Mayoral precepts or town council precepts on top.
The hike includes two per cent which is specifically to be used to fund adult social care in the borough. Councillor Jacqueline North, first deputy in charge of finance, resources and transformation moved the budget, but took aim at government handling of the economy which she said was pushing many of the borough’s residents to ‘breaking point’. READ MORE: 'Thousands' of dead fish found in major river - and experts are still searching for the cause “No councillor in the land can ever be happy with the prospect of raising taxes on residents in the midst of a cost of living crisis,” she added. “But if we wish to continue protecting and delivering the services that we are legally obliged to provide, including care for children and adults, waste collection and road maintenance, then we are truly left with no choice. “The government is relying on councils to make this choice.
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