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.
Masked gang ambush prison officers as they finish work
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city Masked men armed with baseball bats lay in wait and attacked two prison officers as they finished work at a Salford prison.
One officer needed hospital treatment after being struck on the arm and another managed to jump out of the way as the gang crashed a car through a barrier and attempted to mow him down.
The men also smashed windows on the visitors centre at HMP Forest Bank in Agecroft before fleeing. The incident happened two weeks ago but details have only emerged now.
The Manchester Evening News understands that one line of inquiry is that the attack may have been "revenge" for an inmate being moved out of the prison after allegedly assaulting
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