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.
Terrifying moment machete-wielding robbers ambush cash-in-transit guard before making off with £80k
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTerrifying CCTV footage caught the moment two men armed with a machete ambushed a cash-in-transit guard inside a newsagents.
Gordon Hopkins and Anthony Hughes targeted the employee in an early morning attack after he entered Haslingden News in Rossendale to fill the cash machine last September.
He was then attacked by the pair, who were also armed with a large piece of wood, before they quickly escaped in a Volkswagen Golf from the Manchester Road store, with three stolen cassettes totalling £80,000 in cash.
It was Lancashire Police who later spotted the same car on the M62, less than an hour later. Officers from West Yorkshire Police stopped the vehicle in Sowerby Bridge.
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