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.
Plans for holiday homes on Dumfries and Galloway island where murder took place
dailyrecord.co.ukHolidaymakers could soon be given the chance to stay on an island where a murder took place. Plans have been submitted to turn two buildings on Little Ross, right, into holiday accommodation.
The island is also home to a lighthouse and it was in the cottages there that the body of relief lighthouse keeper Hugh Clark was discovered one day in August, 1960.
It emerged he had been murdered by assistant lighthouse keeper Robert Dickson who was convicted of the crime. He was sentenced to be hanged but later took his life in prison.
Ironically, an official from the Northern Lighthouse Board was due to come to the island on the day of the murder to inform the staff the station was to be made automatic.
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