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.
Vulnerable 'cuckooing' victim had feet sprayed with Lynx and set alight
dailyrecord.co.ukpolice officer who bought wraps of crack cocaine and heroin snared a booze and drug-fuelled dog walker. "Cuckooing" victim Ian Cowper met the man on a number of occasions to deliver class A drugs, as part of an undercover operation, in Darlington, Teesside Live reports.
The "vulnerable" 50-year-old was "subject to extreme violence" when his home was taken over by dealers, Teesside Crown Court heard.
In a number of alleged assaults, Cowper had his "hair set on fire" and had his feet sprayed with Lynx then set on fire. The dealer who previously pleaded guilty to three counts of supplying class A drugs, appeared in the dock at the Middlesbrough court on Tuesday.
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