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.
'I'd rather go to jail than pay £100 fine for cycling around my town'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn 82-year-old man says he would rather go to jail than pay the £100 fine he has been issued for cycling through a town centre.
Barrie Enderby, from Grimsby, who regularly bikes around Grimsby town centre, says he told a council officer 'stick it up your a**e' when he was slapped with the fine earlier this month.
The pensioner said he was stopped by an officer as he left a bank on Victoria Street South and told he was not allowed to ride his bike in the street.
He told Grimsby Live he has been riding his bike in the town for 40 years and has never been fined before. Barrie was issued a £100 fine under a Public Spaces Protection Order, which was introduced back in the town centre in 2019 to deal with nuisance behaviour, such as cycling in the pedestrianised zone and drinking in the street.
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