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.
Petition against Citadel closure with more than 3,000 signatures is rejected by South Ayrshire Council
dailyrecord.co.ukA petition against the closure of Ayr's Citadel leisure centre has been thrown out by South Ayrshire Council.More than 3,000 have lodged an online protest against the proposed switch to a new £45 million facility in the centre of town.But objectors say their voices will be "ignored," after the mass protest was stonewalled.Council bosses claim the opposition — lodged through popular petition site change.org — has breached their "protocols" and cannot be deemed competent.Furious organiser John Ferguson, 73, told Ayrshire Live: "They are denying democracy, plain and simple."The council is trying to wriggle out by saying there aren't enough valid addresses contained within the petition, which is a nonsense."More than 3,000 people have signed in
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