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.
Knife crime in Cheshire drops by more than a quarter to make it second lowest in England and Wales
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Cheshire has the second lowest rate of knife crime in England and Wales.
The number of knife-related offences committed in the county decreased by 27.6 per cent from the year ending in December 2019 to the year ending in December 2020.
There were 29 offences per 100,000 of the population in 2020 compared to 37 in 2019. The only area with a lower rate of knife crime in that period in England and Wales is Durham in the North East of England.
Only last month police in the region arrested 42 people and seized 48 blades in a crackdown on the crime. A further 226 weapons were left in surrender bins.
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