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 unable to heat 'mouldy and damp' home receives early Christmas present
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman trapped in a 'mouldy and damp' flat without enough money to put the heating on has received an early Christmas present - the offer of a new home.
Gilliam Walker was stuck in the crumbling flat after struggling to survive on £243-a-month of Universal Credit and being unable to pay off £200 in rent arrears - which she suspects prevented her from securing a different property.
This left her with no other choice but to remain in the crumbling Berwick Hills flat in Middlesborough, with temperatures plummeting to just nine degrees inside the apartment.
However, she is now hoping to leave the nightmare property after housing company Thirteen Group confirmed plans are underway to find her somewhere new.
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