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.
RAF veterans exposed to 'toxic soup' of chemicals at Scots airbases face fight for compensation
dailyrecord.co.ukScores of cancer-stricken RAF veterans who were exposed to a “toxic soup” of chemicals at Scots airbases are being denied justice, it was claimed yesterday.A former Scots Guard has compiled a harrowing list of more than 100 specialist engineers who fell seriously ill after being exposed to potent solvents in their work with the RAF in the 80s and 90s – about half of them having worked at bases in Lossiemouth, Leuchars and Kinloss.And as one widow sees her late husband’s quest for compensation thrown out due to a lack of evidence, Les Mason has demanded a public inquiry into the “Victorian” conditions veterans worked under.He claims too many cases are being dismissed without proper investigation and wants MoD bosses to finally commit to a full-scale probe into the spiralling cluster of illnesses.
He said: “This is a money-saving exercise across the board."People are telling me their claims have been so drawn out over many years that the anticipation is that they will either die or give up before the claim is finished.
That is the general consensus throughout the veteran community I deal with.”The Record first investigated the plight of Scotland’s “squippers”– who repaired aircrew survival kit – in 2016 and the list of servicemen and women falling ill has since risen from two dozen to more than 100.
Many of the engineers have cancers including non-Hodgkin lymphoma, throat cancer and blood cancer.Others are battling life-threatening respiratory and skin disorders which they claim were caused by a shocking litany of health and safety failures.
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