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.
Second bird flu outbreak on outskirts of Manchester in less than one week
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor the latest news from in and around Wigan sign up to the MyWigan newsletter here A strain of 'highly pathogenic' avian flu has been discovered near Wigan.
According to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), the H5N8 virus was confirmed in captive birds around Skelmersdale on Wednesday (March 31).
It is the most recent outbreak in a string of 20 incidents in the UK, LancsLive reports. Restrictions on letting birds out were initially put in place in December to stop the spread of the flu.
Housing measures put in place to stop the spread have been lifted, but enhanced biosecurity requirements will remain in place.
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