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.
Owen Paterson resigns as MP to leave 'cruel world of politics' following ethics row
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOwen Paterson has announced he is leaving "the cruel world of politics" as he resigned as MP for North Shropshire. It comes after the Tory MP was embroiled in a row over ethics standards after he was found to have breached lobbying rules.
Boris Johnson’s government was accused of “corruption” after protecting the former minister from an immediate suspension during a vote in the Commons on Wednesday night.
Tories were ordered not to back the cross-party Standards Committee’s call for Mr Paterson to be suspended from Parliament for 30 sitting days after it found he repeatedly lobbied ministers and officials for two companies paying him more than £100,000 per year.
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