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.
School run shake-up as streets around seven Greater Manchester primaries to be shut
manchestereveningnews.co.ukStreets around seven schools in Stockport are to be closed at picking up and dropping off time as part of a new trial. Starting this week streets around a select group of primary schools will be shut to through traffic and parents or guardians parking to drop off or collect their kids in the car.
The schools included in the trial, which will run until the summer holidays are Adswood Primary, Cheadle Primary, Bradshaw Hall Primary in Cheadle Hulme, Our Lady’s Primary and St Matthew's Primary in Edgeley, St Joseph’s Primary in the town centre and St Mary’s Primary in Reddish.
Town hall bosses say all the schools volunteered to take part as they currently have issues with parking around the schools.
They hoped the move will persuade more families to ditch the car for the school run and walk, cycle or scoot instead. READ MORE: Greater Manchester set to be hotter than LANZAROTE this week as 'heatwave' predicted Those still using the car will have to park further away and walk the rest of the way.
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