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.
Dumfries and Galloway social housing landlord imposes 6.5 per cent rent hike
dailyrecord.co.ukA rent hike of 6.5 per cent is being imposed by a social landlord in Dumfries and Galloway next month. The management committee of Loreburn Housing Association – which has more than 2,500 homes across the region – said it has no option but to make the increase from April 3.
The landlord last month invited every tenant to take part in a rent consultation with two proposals on the table – an increase of either 6.5 per cent or seven per cent for the financial year 2023/24.
Almost 2,400 letters were sent out and 308 responses were received with 12.3 per cent voting for a seven per cent increase and 87.7 per cent calling for 6.5 per cent.
In a letter to tenants, Loreburn’s director of housing, Sue Irving, confirmed that after “careful consideration” of the feedback the decision was to implement the lower of the two proposed increases.
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