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.
Bomb squad scrambled to Bridgwater Canal over fears magnet fishers caught 160 year-old grenade
manchestereveningnews.co.ukBomb squad experts were called to a canal over fears magnet fishers caught a 160 year-old grenade. The puzzling find was made by members of a magnet fishing group on the Bridgewater Canal in Sale, Trafford, at the weekend, sparking a police alert.
Enthusiast Alastair Rogers - part of a regional magnet fishing group - pulled the object up from the water then wrapped it up in a towel and placed it behind a tree.
It was photographed and the images were sent to a military historian, who said he believed the metal lump could have been part of a Ketchum hand grenade, which were predominantly used in the American civil war and first patented there in 1861.
Police were alerted and the towpath area around Raglan Road, near Trafford Rowing Club, was cordoned off at around 4.30pm on Sunday.
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