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.
Man jailed for 10 years in 'UK first' county lines drugs prosecution
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA man has been jailed for 10 years after what police described as a 'UK first' county lines prosecution. Kieran Gaughan, 26, was convicted as part of an investigation into the criminal exploitation of a 15-year-old boy and drug-dealing in the region.
Police executed warrants in Merseyside, Lancashire and Cheshire in February under Operation Pinecrest. The teenager, who hasn't been identified, had been recruited and sent to deal drugs in Chorley, where he was housed at the address of a drug user, Merseyside Police said.
The user would deal drugs and return the cash to the teen, who would remain at the address with the drugs and the proceeds before handing the cash to those who had recruited him - one of whom was Gaughan.
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