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.
Mum arrested after helping stranger travel to carry out assisted suicide at Dignitas
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman risked a 14-year prison sentence by helping a stranger travel thousands of miles to carry out a medically assisted death.
Sue Lawford had only met Sharon Johnston once when she agreed to chaperon her to Dignitas, a non-profit organisation in Switzerland that provides assisted-suicide to those with terminal or severe illness.
Sharon had been left paralysed following a freak accident at home. She had gone upstairs to put her pyjamas on for the evening, but on her way back down she tripped and fell down the flight of stairs, Wales Online reports.
The incident caused her to fracture several bones in the top of her neck, leaving her with virtually no movement in her body, apart from some in one hand which allows her to operate her specially adapted wheelchair.Sharon was also left doubly incontinent and relied on carers who would visit her home four times a day.
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