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 teacher dies days before she was due to face trial over alleged assault of pupil
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots secondary school is in shock after the death of a respected teacher just days before she was due to face trial for allegedly assaulting a female pupil.
Languages teacher and church minister's wife Katherine Scouler had been suspended since October after the classroom incident while trying to take a mobile phone off a girl.
Her trial was due to call at Jedburgh Sheriff Court this Thursday when she was due to face a charge of pulling the girl's hair and striking her to the head with her hand.But during the early hours of Saturday, February 4, she suffered serious injuries in an incident in the garden of her home in High Street, Hawick, Roxburghshire when it is believed she was attempting to take her own life.Mother-of-two Mrs Scouler, 53, was taken by ambulance to Borders General Hospital and then transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary where she died from her injuries last Tuesday.Colleagues at Hawick High School are said to be angry at the lack of support given to Mrs Scouler by her employers Scottish Borders Council during the disciplinary proceedings and believe she had accidentally struck the girl while trying to get the mobile phone.Counselling has been provided for staff and pupils after news of the tragedy swept the school last week.Her heartbroken family released a statement through a legal firm at the weekend saying: "Her sudden death has left us completely devastated.
No words can express the sense of loss we feel about her passing."It asked that the media and the wider public now allow the family to grieve and respect their privacy.The Crown Office confirmed there would be no further active proceedings against Mrs Scouler.A spokesperson said: "We have received a death report in relation to this
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