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.
Feral yobs attack and bite NHS worker after smashing up bus
dailyrecord.co.ukAn NHS worker has told of her terror after she was attacked by 'out of control' yobs on her bus journey home.Diane Hawthorn had just finished her shift at St John's Hospital when the feral gang, aged between 12-13, began hurling slurs at passengers and smashed an upstairs window on the vehicle at around 7pm on April 17.The group were asked to leave the bus by the driver, but confronted Diane after making their way downstairs.
The 40-year-old, from Whitburn, claims they then smashed another window next to her face and pulled her off the bus by her hair.Diane said one child then "sunk her teeth" into her knee during the horrific assault.
Speaking to the Record, Diane said: "I was on the bus on my way back from work and there were young folk upstairs making a racket and breaking stuff. "They broke a window and were shouting insults out the window. "They then came downstairs and one got up in my face, grabbed my hair and pulled me off the bus."The driver and another man on the bus were trying to get her off me, but she got hold of my hair again and pulled me onto the ground."She had a grip of my hair, and was trying to knee my stomach.
I was trying to stand up to get away and she sank her teeth into my knee."The driver and the man then managed to get her off me but she was still trying to lunge at me."Then she threw a stone at the bus window and the glass cracked.
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