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.
'We're spending cash on posh streets and cycle lanes... not on dangerous potholes'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor years I and other drivers have been carefully negotiating a notorious crossroads in the borough of Bury. Tens of thousands of vehicles daily go through it.
But the issue is not the volume of traffic which demands nifty steering, it is the appalling state of the centre of the road surface.
The point at which Bury New Road and Church Lane and Stanley Road meet in the centre of Whitefield is a cluster of twenty craters, cracks, and holes.
HGVs can thunder over it without too much harm but car drivers, motorbike riders, and cyclists need to take care or risk a split tyre, wrecked suspension, or even injury.
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