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.
Ambulances waiting outside for '12 hours' as hospitals 'not allowing patients in due to bed crisis'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAmbulances have been waiting up to '12 hours' outside hospitals with gravely ill patients as wards struggle with a 'bed crisis', one paramedic has told the Manchester Evening News.
North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) staff are left treating patients with severe 'sepsis' and 'smoke inhalation' outside hospitals, with doctors having to attend them inside the ambulances as wards run out of beds, according to the NWAS paramedic.
Amid the scenes in recent weeks and months of ambulances queuing, the paramedic says the number of emergency calls is 'phenomenal', with hundreds going without an ambulance in Greater Manchester.
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