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.
Pensioner who went to top school 'didn't know sickening child abuse images on his laptop were illegal'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A paedophile pensioner has escaped jail after police found more then a thousand pictures of extreme porn and sickening images of child abuse on his laptop.
Philip Sansby, 71, claimed he didn't know the pictures were illegal and had downloaded the images accidentally - even though he went to a top independent school.
Following a tip-off, police raided his home in Hyde in September 2019 and, when officers suggested he had downloaded and shared indecent images of children, Sansby told them: "I downloaded it but I scrubbed it off." Officers seized his Toshiba laptop and a number of hard drives.
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