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 who thought she just had jet lag after Australia trip left devastated
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Timperley pensioner returned from a trip to Australia and felt tired. Valerie Thompson had lost a bit of weight during her holiday, but thought nothing of it and put her exhaustion down to jet lag.
Before her trip she had completed an at-home cancer screening test sent through the post by her GP and had almost forgotten about it by the time she arrived home.
But when her results came back, the worst was confirmed – she had bowel cancer. Valerie said: “I wouldn’t be here if I had ignored the home test kit for bowel cancer. READ MORE : The Wanted's Siva shares emotional tribute to bandmate Tom after tragic death "I had no symptoms and was going to throw the test away when it came through the post.
I decided to do it and then headed on holiday to Australia. “Feeling a bit tired on my return – which I assumed was jet lag – and having lost a bit of weight which I thought was due to endless walking and a different holiday diet, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer.” Over the last two years, Trafford GPs have witnessed an 85pc increase in lower gastrointestinal cancers across the borough and are now urging patients to complete ‘life saving’ bowel cancer screening tests at home.
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