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.
“What are you after?” Man unwittingly offered ‘weed’ to two plain-clothed police officers
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A man offered ‘weed’ to two plain-clothed police officers - he even showed them a coffee cup containing the drugs.
Abdirahman Hassan Dagah, 32, was lurking around Robin Hood Street, Cheetham Hill, which is notoriously known for drug dealing.
He was spotted poking his head out of a blue gate, when the officers walked past he asked: “What are you after?” Dagah, of Didsbury, then stated he had ‘weed’ and showed them a Costa Coffee cup containing five wraps of the drug, asking them: “One or two?” When they identified themselves he repeatedly apologised and said he was ‘only doing this because times are hard’, Manchester Crown Court heard.
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