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 mum 'force-fed vomit' during horrific abuse at Fornethy House
dailyrecord.co.ukA brave Glasgow woman has opened up about the horrific abuse she suffered as a child at a notorious residential school. Lynn Sheerin was one of hundreds of girls who endured mental, physical, and sexual abuse at Fornethy House in Kilry, Angus.
The school opened in August 1960 after being gifted to Glasgow City Council (known then as Glasgow Corporation) by the Coats family and used to provide short-term respite care for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.
However, instead of receiving support and nurture, many students were subjected to unimaginable abuse by teachers and staff.
It took 15 years before the truth came to light and Fornethy House was finally closed down, with many victims too traumatised to tell anyone, even their parents, what had happened to them.
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