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.
“It would be decimated”: Furious residents fight council's 'unjustified' plans to destroy trees around beauty spot
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCampaigners say a new flood prevention programme would 'decimate' trees around a popular beauty spot. Campaign group Friends of Poynton Pool have called for Cheshire East Council to rethink a plan that would cut down a significant number of trees.
A public meeting with Cheshire East Council in October 2022 revealed a proposal to fell ‘at least 44 trees around Poynton Pool’, with a ‘further 37 trees at risk of removal’ in order to reduce a 1 in 10,000 year flood risk.
This flood resilience plan has been met with forceful opposition and now local resident Jen Hartshorne has created a petition receiving nearly 1,500 signatures and rallied together other Poynton residents. READ MORE: How Vimto became a Ramadan tradition in the Middle East One member of the action group, Lauren Forth, 35, says she objects to the council’s ‘incredibly extreme’ solution to the flood risk which 'would be a serious loss to Poynton town if this were to go ahead'. “What hasn’t been made clear is why such drastic action needs to be taken,” she told the M.E.N. “Especially when the area has never flooded, it’s never even come close to flooding.” Lauren is not alone in her concern.
Another member of Friends of Poynton Pool, Mike Ellison, added: “The impacts of the proposal have been ill-considered and importantly have not accounted for the loss of the immense value that the trees represent”.
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