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.
'Graphic and perverse cruelty at its worst': Ex-primary school teaching assistant filmed young child attacking wild animals with spade in 'abhorrent day'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn ex-teaching assistant who encouraged a child to take part in 'graphic and perverse animal cruelty at its worst' has been spared jail.
Paris Jade Carding, 28, of Fawley Grove, Wythenshawe, joined her then-boyfriend Grant Leigh Jnr, 30, of the same address, on October 24 2020.
Horrific pictures and videos were later shared on a private Facebook group - 'The Real Terrier Men and Lurcher Men'. They showed dogs kept by the couple - and Leigh's father, Grant Leigh Snr, 52 - savagely attacking badgers and foxes.
These were discovered by a police wildlife crime officer following a tip-off. Grant Snr , who was serving a suspended sentence at the time of the offences, operated as an administrator of the group where he boasted about taking his son badger baiting as a way of celebrating his recent prison release, Tameside magistrates court heard. READ MORE:Three people rushed to hospital after car smashes into tree and bursts into flames A joint investigation by RSPCA and Cheshire Police executed raids on October 26, and found six dogs in squalid conditions at Leigh Snr's house on Marler Road in Hyde, and one at Carding's who all had injuries consistent with hunting activities.
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