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.
Parents told to cover up children's faces outside school as cameras mysteriously appear on lamp posts
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids Parents have been told to cover their children's faces when leaving primary school after video cameras mysteriously appeared outside.
Residents spotted the cameras strapped to lamp posts outside Poplar Street Primary School in Audenshaw. It's not known why they've been put there, or even who installed them, sparking fears among the community as to what the footage will be used for.
In a message to parents, the school's headteacher Iain Linsdell said: "A very observant parent has spotted what look to be unauthorised video cameras strapped to lamp-posts along Ravenwood Drive.
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