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 live in fear of them...": Vile 'Portuguese Mafia' cuckooing gang terrorised vulnerable addicts and used CHILDREN to peddle drugs
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA vile drugs gang known as the 'Portuguese Mafia' cuckooed vulnerable addicts and used CHILDREN to peddle drugs. The gang terrorised blocks of flats in Rochdale, deliberately targeting addicts before taking over their homes and using them as a base for their crimes.
Their terrified victims were too afraid to challenge them, and one had the keys to their flat stolen. Some have been relocated for their own protection, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Some members of the gang laughed as they were sentenced. The judge said she'd been subjected to 'abusive language' during their trial, and cannabis was also discovered in the dock during the case.
The gang, also known as the '706', peddled cocaine, heroin and cannabis on the Freehold and Falinge estates in the town, using threats of violence to instil fear.
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