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.
Station Hotel fire in Ayr probed by police as huge emergency response closes train line
dailyrecord.co.ukA police probe has been launched after Ayr's Station Hotel was placed on lockdown this afternoon.Emergency services raced to the scene after a fire broke out at the rear of the abandoned B-Listed pile.
Seven fire appliances were mobilised - including a major incident support unit from Bellshill - as teams converged on the structure which overlooks the town's train station.Large crowds of onlookers gathered at the top of the town to watch the unfolding spectacle, which began shortly after 3.30pm.
Trains to and from Glasgow down the west coast were severely distuped after power to the overhead lines was cut as part of the emergency response.
Services to and from Ayr were slowly restarting when the line re-opened at 8pm tonight.It's understood fire crews who arrived at the scene were initially prevented from entering due to the 'Dangerous Building' notice first slapped on the structure more than five years ago.They eventually gained access at the ground floor level where a group of firefighters were seen making their way slowly into the building, with some slowly scaling the scaffolding.
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