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.
Phone lines 'helped to trap' major county lines drug gang, jury hears
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor the latest Oldham news sign up to the MyOldham newsletter here A jury has heard how mobile phone calls and texts tracked to phone masts across the Pennines helped bust a gang running cocaine and heroin across county lines.
Simon Potter, 48, and Amanda Kershaw, 41, both deny conspiring to traffic Class A drugs between Manchester and York between April 22 and June 16 last year.
Prosecuting Deborah Smithies told the hearing at Bolton Crown Court how the drugs business was being run by Manchester-based drug lord Jack Smedley.
He has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, but it is alleged Potter and Kershaw were also actively involved in helping him from their flat in Cambridge Street, York.
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