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.
'Tenderpasta', the Manchester criminal behind a major £1.6m cocaine ring caught in a builder's yard
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Manchester man who used the handle "Tenderpasta" in a secret communication system to import cocaine worth £1.6m is today facing a lengthy jail sentence.
Ibraheem Adullah , 38, was caught when GMP and National Crime Officers raided a joiners yard in Middleton. Stashed in boxes of phone accessories, they discovered 20 kilos of cocaine. READ MORE: Mum turned into human fireball for 'FIVE minutes' after freak petrol accident The drugs had been sent from Holland and showed a purity of between 70 and 73 per cent.
The raid was part of a Operation Venetic which smashed the Encrochat encrypted phone system used by criminals. Abdullah, also known as Dwaine George, attempted to flee when police came into the yard in Wade Street.
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