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.
Bomb squad race to Scots beach as dramatic footage shows wartime shell being detonated
dailyrecord.co.ukPolice rushed to secure the scene as the beach was cordoned off. Bomb disposal experts were also called in to inspect the explosive and decide what action to take.
Confirmed to be a naval shell, it's thought it was leftover from when the beach was used for practising D-Day landings in World War Two.
The bomb squad decided the shell needed to be detonated and dramatic footage has shown the explosive being blown up.East Lothian Council Countryside Rangers, who shared the clip, said: "Ranger Jen found what she thought could be a wartime ordnance on the beach at Gullane on Thursday.
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