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 woman discovers she contracted hepatitis C from secret blood transfusion as child
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots woman has spoken of her horror after discovering she contracted Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion she received 25 years ago.
Pamela Pennycook, who suffers from spina bifida, underwent spinal fusion surgery when she was 11-years-old at Edinburgh's Princess Margaret Rose Hospital in July 1980.
Unknown to Pamela and her parents, she received a transfusion of three pints of blood.It wasn't until 25 years later when she was diagnosed with Osteoporosis in December 2005 that she would find out the blood she received was contaminated.
Pamela, now 52, from Edinburgh, said she was stunned when a doctor's receptionist told her over the phone her blood tests were positive for hepatitis C.
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