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.
'Prison officer' arrested after disabled man allegedly 'punched' and called an 'idiot' outside Forest Bank prison
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA woman has been arrested and an investigation launched after a disabled man was allegedly assaulted in the car park of Forest Bank prison.
The Manchester Evening News understands the woman works as a prison officer. A disabled man claims he was punched, dragged around and sworn at after commenting that a woman had parked in a disabled bay.
John Baines drove more than 90 miles from his home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, to visit his father in prison. It was the first visit since his dad was jailed three months ago.
John, 36, says he parked in the Forest Bank car park, in Salford, and was soon joined by a prison officer who parked her car in a disabled bay nearby.
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