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.
Drug dealer found with £180k of cocaine stashed in secret trap door in his van
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA member of an organised crime gang has been jailed for 11 years after being found with £180,000 of high purity cocaine hidden behind a secret trap door in his van.
Paul Marrow was part of plot aimed at flooding the streets of Tyneside with cocaine and amphetamine. The gang used a van with a secret trap door and encrypted phones to ship the drugs to the North East from Liverpool, ChronicleLive reports.
Last month, head honcho John Allock was locked up for 21 years and five others got sentences ranging from a year to 13 years.
Nowl Marrow, 62, of Rainford Road, Dentons Green, Merseyside, who admitted Conspiracy to Supply Class A drugs, has been jailed for 11 years for his role as a courier.
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