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.
Man who sold illegal boxes showing Sky and BT Sport flees to Cyprus to avoid justice
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA man convicted of selling set top boxes giving illegal access to Sky TV, BT Sports and Virgin has fled to northern Cyprus, a court heard.
Michael Hornung, 38, of Tameside, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for selling unauthorised decoders, selling articles for use in fraud and advertising unauthorised decoders for sale.
He was found guilty in his absence following a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court last month. He failed to attend a sentencing hearing on Thursday, with the court told he had fled to Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus, a territory with which the UK has no extradition treaty.
Hornung, formerly of Hyde, is estimated to to have sold around 2,700 set top boxes over a three year period between January 2014 and January 2017.
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