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.
Rochdale's landmark 'Seven Sisters' flats could yet be saved as council plans to buy back demoliton-threatend tower blocks
manchestereveningnews.co.ukRochdale’s demolition-threatened Seven Sisters tower blocks could yet be saved after the council announced it was to explore the possibility of buying back the landmark high-rises.
The College Bank flats have been owned and managed by Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) since the local authority transferred its housing stock to the landlord in 2012.
However, relations between the council and RBH have become increasingly strained over recent years, with the housing organisations controversial proposals to drop four of the Seven Sisters as part of a regeneration ‘masterplan’ being fiercely criticised by councillors of all stripes.
RBH has previously said it would be ‘willing to facilitate the council taking on responsibility’ for the Seven Sisters, if it came forward with ‘a realistic alternative plan to generate the £90m-plus needed to fund the works to all seven blocks at College Bank’.
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