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.
Shop used chute from flat above to sell illicit cigarettes, council claims
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA chute was being used by a shop in Cheetham Hill to sell illicit tobacco from a flat above, trading standards officers from Manchester council have claimed.
More than 17,000 cigarettes and 2.75kg of hand-rolling tobacco were found alongside an audio device in the flat above Euro Market in Cheetham Hill Road.
Trading standards officers believe that staff would sit in the flat and listen to orders before passing the products down to the premises through the chute. READ MORE: How Manchester council wants to 'stamp out' spiking amid rise in cases Designated premises supervisor Hassan Darvishi denied he had access to the flat despite documents relating to him as the shop owner being found inside.
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