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.
How a barrister and her puppy Mabel foiled suspected thieves and saved a park bench
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Two suspected thieves met their match in barrister Joanne Lewthwaite and her puppy.
Called to the bar in 1990 and now a lecturer for the University of Law, specialising in crime, she was more than a little curious by what she saw in Fog Lane Park in Didsbury.
Two lads appeared to be trying to walk off with a garish park bench but Joanne and her six-month-old labrador, Mabel, enforced the law after subjecting then to some tough cross examination.
Joanne said: "I was taking my usual morning walk with Mabel at about 8am when I saw these two lads walking with a bright pink bench and table.
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