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.
Machete-wielding gang forced their way into man's home and 'treated him like a dog'
dailyrecord.co.ukA masked gang forced their way inside a vulnerable man's home before one of them threatened him with a machete and a kettle full of boiling water.
Niko Lovatt, 29, and his two accomplices treated their victim "like a dog" after bursting their way into his home late at night on February 17.
However, the terrifying raid at the property in Weston Coyney ended when the police showed up at the door following a secret 999 call, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard how the man, who suffers from epilepsy, has been left traumatised since the incident.
Lovatt has now been locked up for over seven years. Prosecutor Sally Cames said the victim was home and was in the kitchen when he saw car lights through the glass front door at just before 11.30pm.The victim initially thought his brother had come home from work, but he heard a series of threatening knocks, followed by demands to open the door.
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