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.
Driver who caused death of cyclist dad on Scots country road avoids jail
dailyrecord.co.ukcyclist on a country road avoided a prison sentence. Barry McConnell was allowed to serve a community sentence for causing the fatal road accident.
He claimed he was momentarily “blinded by the sun” when he knocked dad-of-one Gwyn Bailey off his bike on the A90 near the former Bangour Village Hospital in West Lothian, on February 27 last year.
Gwyn, 37, was a Welsh national who had worked in Edinburgh as a manufacturing manager since 2011. He is survived by his widow Leanne and their daughter who both submitted victim impact statements to Livingston Sheriff Court.Leanne, 41, said afterwards: “I feel heartbroken for Gwyn, knowing the driver who ended his life still gets to walk free.“I know it’s one of the most severe sentences handed out.
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