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 single mum hit with £760 electricity bill forced to use candles to light home
dailyrecord.co.ukA single mother-of-two whose energy bill soared to £760 a month cannot afford to heat the home and uses candles for light. Struggling Nicola Elson, 32, says she has to fork out up to £760 a month for electricity at her two-bed flat in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.She has lived in the property for the past year and spends the majority of her salary towards her electricity meter.She says she sits with candles on at night with the heating off in order to save the pennies - which means her two children often have to stay elsewhere.
Nicola said: "There have been times I have had to pick food or electric, or I have had to borrow off friends and family to get things I have ran out of, or even to put the electric on. "My children's grandparents have to pay for my children's shoes, coats, bags, lunches, sometimes clothes because everything I have goes on my meter."If I get something extra, I need to then struggle somewhere else, that being the meter, the internet bill, or not being able to watch TV for an hour in the morning before school."Nicola moved in in March 2021 and she claims, at first, she needed to put around £140 on her Pay As You Go meter every week to see her through.She rang up her provider, ScottishPower, to enquire as to why the price for her electricity was so high.She says she was told that it was due to her appliances, but she only had a fridge-freezer, TV, kettle and cooker at the time.Nicola also heats her house using electricity with plug-in storage heaters.She brought in an electrician who replaced her meter but this didn't make a difference, and it is affecting mum Nicola's relationship with her family.She said: "I have five children but three of them live with their father, they come to stay
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