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.
Scots fire chief cleared of fraud over £500 Land Rover auction sale
dailyrecord.co.ukA chief fire officer from Scotland has been cleared of fraud after making a winning £500 bid on one of his own brigade's Land Rovers in an auction he was running.
Stewart Edgar won the Defender - being sold off after reaching the end of its service life - after using a third-party company to put the bid in on his behalf.
After a week-long trial, a Birmingham Crown Court jury unanimously found Edgar not guilty on Friday after hearing how he secured the 2003-plate vehicle, telling a colleague he had always wanted a red Land Rover for his daughter's wedding.
The 53-year-old former head of Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service, resigned from his £120,000-a-year post in 2018 just weeks after the sale came to light in an internal audit,
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