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.
David and Victoria Beckham win battle over lake at £6m Cotswolds home as council back them despite row with neighbours
thesun.co.ukDAVID and Victoria Beckham's plans to build a huge lake with its own island at their £6m Cotswolds home have been approved by ecology officers, despite rows with their neighbours over the project.
The couple have been backed by the council in the row - who say that the lake plan can go ahead as long as they don't use motorised boats on it.
In August, the couple won approval for the huge lake at their Cotswolds home despite the plans angering two locals, who called it “ugly" and "out of keeping" with the rural area.
Then, the Beckhams submitted plans to make it even bigger with a land mass in the middle, which received two more objections.
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