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.
Cops catch lorry driver with tonne of heroin and ketamine worth £300m in one of UK's biggest busts
dailyrecord.co.ukCops intercepted a lorry containing a huge £300 million drugs haul in what police have said is the ‘UK’s largest mainland drugs seizure’.
The bust followed a covert operation by Greater Manchester Police acting on intelligence. It ended with the seizure of a shipment worth an ‘immense’ value on the streets, which had been imported into the country via a port in the south, reports Manchester Evening News.Drug bosses recruited a Wigan-based team to courier the narcotics - a metric tonne of heroin and ketamine with a street value of £300 million - to the North West.
But they were unaware that their every move was being tracked by police.The drugs were hidden in bags of basmati rice within the HGV that was intercepted at Keele services off the M6.
Now two Wigan men are facing justice for their roles in the staggering seizure.Craig Parr, said to have led the logistics team, was caged for 16-and-a-half years, while Andrew Tait, who acted as ‘muscle’ and offered organisational support, was locked up for 18 years.
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