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.
Residents watch in horror as enormous blaze takes hold at Scots primary school
dailyrecord.co.ukAn "enormous" blaze in the grounds of a Scots primary school that consumed an equipment shed is being treated as wilful by police.More than a dozen people phoned 999 after the fire took hold in the grounds of Muiredge Primary School in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, at around 3.45pm on August 9.
Eyewitnesses said thick smoke soared into the sky as the shed, believed to contain wooden pallets, burned - and high winds threatened to divert the flames towards neighbouring houses.The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent one fire engine to the Watson Street school, and firefighters used a single hose reel jet to extinguish the blaze and dampen down the scene.
They left the scene at around 4.20pm.A local resident told the Record that she had her windows open amid the muggy weather - but had to close them when she realised she wasn't smelling a barbeque from the next house over.She said: "It started at about 3.45pm.
I first noticed the smell as my windows were open and I thought someone was having a barbeque in a garden over the wall. It was a wee shed that was on fire - the smoke got stronger really quickly and the flames were enormous."My first thought was for the kids that play around there, and there's a grassy area beside the school that they use as a cycle path.
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