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.
Giant humpback whale living in Firth of Forth vanishes after getting entangled in fishing gear
dailyrecord.co.ukA giant humpback whale that has proved popular with locals after making its home in the Firth of Forth has recently vanished.
The stunning marine animal is thought to have survived getting entangled in fishing gear in the new year but may now have left the estuary.
The whale got caught in ropes over the festive period with onlookers having spotted cuts to its tail stock and dorsal ridge on New Years Day.
Lyndsay McNeill, who maintains the Scottish Humpback Catalogue which helps identify individual whales, believes it was most likely these were caused by the whale becoming entangled in rope, but that they were not believed to be serious injuries.The whale appeared in the Firth of Forth in December last year and proved a hit with locals who
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