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.
Woman says £30 Puma sliders saved her life after she was nearly electrocuted while vacuuming her fake lawn
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA woman has said her £30 Puma sliders saved her life after she was nearly electrocuted while vacuuming her artificial lawn. Kerry Tattersley, 36, was vacuuming her fake grass lawn in her backyard when she went to unplug the extension lead and touched a live current.
The resulting contact from the electric shock produced enough force to throw her back into the nearby wall. The support worker from Halifax, said: "I was in my garden vaccing my artificial grass and my extension lead was plugged in too.
I had finished vaccing the grass and went to unplug the extension and the back plastic bit must have been loose. Read more: Specialist teams continue to search Oldham mill after human remains found "I didn't know, and I grabbed it and it fell off while I had hold of the plug and I got electrocuted and I got flung back into my wall.
The pain was like a dull ache and a massive tingle through my body and it was like electricity going through my arms. "I was running up and down my kitchen.
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