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.
Plans for new housing development next to waste centre rejected after 'significant' concerns were raised
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MyTameside newsletter here to keep abreast of what's happening in your neighbourhood Plans to build a new housing estate next to a waste centre have been refused by councillors over concerns that the houses would ‘prejudice’ the facility.
A developer had applied to Tameside council to construct 59 homes on land in Droylsden which contains industrial buildings. The site sits next to Ash Road Waste Recycling Centre, and the applicant had proposed use the same road to access the housing development, but with an additional queueing lane.
The number of homes had been reduced from 74 since first being submitted, and were proposed to be be split between mews houses, semi-detached properties and apartments.
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