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.
Pontins 'used Irish surnames blacklist to exclude Gypsies and Travellers from park'
mirror.co.ukPontins kept a list of Irish surnames in a bid to stop Gypsies and Travellers from staying at its holiday parks, a whistleblower revealed.
Staff were required to block potential customers with those surnames from booking holidays as part of the firm's efforts to keep out "undesirable guests".
Staff also monitored calls and refused or cancelled bookings made by people with an Irish accent, it was revealed. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) verified the claims and found that Pontins discriminated on the basis of race and breached equality laws by declining to provide its services to guests of a certain race or ethnic group.
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