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.
GMP is splashing out £7.5m on 143 detectives for its ailing CID
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox Unloved, overworked, tired and underfunded - Life on Mars' Gene Hunt would have something rude and pithy to say about it.
CID, once a byword for policing glamour, has been the poor relation in the dysfunctional family that is GMP for years, with the brightest sparks in the force agitating for moves to specialist units like the major incident team or counter terrorism.
That could be about to change with a new chief constable on the way and - the M.E.N. can reveal - a £7.5m investment in CID which will bolster the number of plainclothes detectives working on local divisions by 143.
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