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 to adopt 20mph speed limit on all residential roads as councillors back call for safer streets
manchestereveningnews.co.ukRochdale is to make 20mph the ‘default’ speed limit on all residential roads after councillors backed a call for safer streets.
A full council meeting has unanimously voted to adopt Resolution 11 of the UN’s Stockholm Declaration, which says a 20mph limit should be in place wherever ‘vulnerable road users and vehicles mix’.
It means the limit will be enforced on most of the borough’s streets ‘except where strong evidence exists that higher speeds are safe’. READ MORE : However, the ‘20s plenty’ rule is unlikely to apply to busy main roads, due to ‘the type and volume of traffic using them’.
The decision came after Labour tabled an amendment to a Liberal Democrat motion urging councillors to agree to lower speed limits across the borough.
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