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.
Hardworking school staff devastated as vandals torch playgrounds and destroy children's flower displays
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter Hardworking staff have been left devastated as a primary school continues to be terrorised by vandals, according to a teaching assistant.
Tonge Moor Academy in Bolton has suffered a spate of anti-social behaviour in recent weeks, leaving their outdoor spaces 'trashed', their playgrounds burned and windows smashed after being repeatedly targeted by louts.
On Monday (April 19), teaching assistant Sandra Obertelli says staff arrived at work and were met with damage yet again, after thugs 'threw a log through a window." Ms Obertelli told the Manchester Evening News : "This has been going on for some time now. [The] first time they just came in
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