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.
Scots biker spared jail over Loch Lomond crash which left French tourist disabled
dailyrecord.co.ukA biker who left a holidaymaker disabled in a head-on motorbike smash has been spared jail.. Usman Rashid smashed into Hubert Hardie by speeding round a blind bend near Loch Lomond.
The "life-changing" collision occurred as the pair rode near the village of Tarbet, Argyll and Bute. The French tourist had to have emergency surgery to save his right leg, suffered a broken spine, and spent more than a month in hospital in Scotland.
It took him so long to recover from his injuries that he had to be discharged to another hospital in his homeland. He is now unable to work as he has to walk with the aid of crutches and has has to get friends and family to help him around the house.
Rashid, 32, previously admitted a charge of culpable and reckless driving over the August 5, 2018 smash, and returned to the dock at Dumbarton Sheriff Court this week to be sentenced.
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