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.
Does Manchester need more bus lanes?
manchestereveningnews.co.ukReaders found themselves debating the introduction of a new bus lane in the centre of town, with opinion split over the benefits and drawbacks of the change.
The lane appeared on Bridge Street and means that while cars can still enter the city via that road, they can't go the other way and leave the city going towards Salford.
The move has caused a disgruntled reaction from some local residents in nearby apartment buildings, so we want to hear your thoughts on the changes being made to roads in the city centre. Let us know what you think in the comments section. Residents complained that the 'bus gate' means it now takes longer to drive the diverted route than to walk through the stretch of road linking apartment buildings near the Lowry Hotel to the city centre past Manchester Crown Court.
However, not everyone was entirely sympathetic to the complaints, with one person responding: "I'm sorry thousands of people use that road in and out of Manchester every day on the bus.
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