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.
Three rare white reindeer calves born in Cairngorms get ready for Christmas tour
dailyrecord.co.ukThree "beautiful" rare white reindeer calves are getting ready to spread festive cheer this Christmas with a UK-wide tour.The calves—called Vanilla, Mr Whippy, and 99—were born this summer and are now preparing for their first Christmas as part of the UK's only free-ranging herd of reindeers.
The herd lives at the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands, which provides the snowy and arctic conditions the animals require.The first reindeer were transported from Swedish Lapland in 1952 by Mikel Utsi and his wife Dr Ethel Lindgren as an experiment, and they have grazed the land since then.Tilly Smith, owner of the Cairngorm Reindeer Centre, said: "The Cairngorms is ideal for the reindeer.
We're centrally positioned within the highlands which means we have a more continental climate."We're more likely to have cold, snowy, arctic like conditions which provide the best vegetation.
Our mountains, although vast and impressive, are also gentle which suits the reindeer as they aren't the most nimble."Mark Tate, CEO of VisitCairngorms added: "The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd are a firm favourite among our winter visitors and it's easy to see why.
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