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 on six-figure salary stole over £250k from business and sent it to pal
dailyrecord.co.ukmanaging director embezzled more than £250,000 of his employer's money before he was called out by a whistleblower. According to the Liverpool Echo, Adrian Platt denied the "brazen fraud" at Liverpool Crown Court, despite carrying out the scam for six years.
Platt siphoned the cash into three business accounts owned by a mate who lived in Liverpool city centre and tried to claim that the massive sums were payment for "stress counselling".A jury took just 20 minutes to reject his explanation.
Judge David Potter stated that whilst he accepted Platt had been under pressure at work, instead of asking for help from employers he instead turned to criminal actions.
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