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.
Driver injured during spate of rock throwing incidents on motorways
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOne motorist was injured and the occupants of two other vehicles were covered in glass after bricks and rocks thrown from the North West's motorway bridges smashed through windscreens.
North West Motorway Police said the incidents were among ten reports they received over the weekend of children and teenagers causing disturbances across the region's motorway network, with youngsters also allegedly climbing up motorway signs.
On Sunday evening, North West Motorway Police posted a disturbing photograph of one of the large rocks that caused damage to unsuspecting car occupants.
The picture was accompanied by the following words: "Yet another incident relating to youths throwing bricks off bridges - another two vehicles damaged and occupants of vehicles covered in glass. "This is the rock that was found by our Highways colleagues.
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