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.
Buckley Hall Prison inmate, 40, in middle of serving five-year jail term for 'terrifying' attack dies
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA prisoner serving a five-year sentence who was found hanging in his cell on his 40th birthday died in hospital three days later, a report has revealed.
A watchdog has criticised Buckley Hall Prison in Rochdale after launching an investigation into the death of Ryan Brennan. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) said it found his care 'could have been managed better' and wasn't 'equivalent to that which he could have expected to receive in the community'.
Some staff involved in events leading up to his death were suspended, all of whom have since returned to work bar one woman who was interviewed under caution by police, although officers took no further action.
She has since left the prison service, the PPO report said. Brennan was jailed in November 2021 after going on a knife rampage the morning after a birthday drink and drugs binge.
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