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.
British Empire Medal honour for proud Perthshire Armed Forces chair based in Cyprus
dailyrecord.co.ukA Perthshire woman who represents the UK’s Armed Forces charity in the Mediterranean was presented with her British Empire Medal (BEM) earlier this month.
Tina Graham – SSAFA’s overseas regional chair based in Cyprus – was handed her prestigious title by HE Stephen Lillie, British High Commissioner Cyprus on March 16.This followed the award last year in Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday Honours for Tina’s decades of service to SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, as well as the wider British expat community on Cyprus.
Tina, originally from Alyth, has been working with SSAFA for 36 years. In 1986, she opened a SSAFA office in Belize where her husband was posted at the time.Before this, Tina was in the Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, leaving in 1973 as a flying officer.She returned to the UK in 1988, becoming a caseworker at the Warwickshire branch of SSAFA, as well as being a midwife and manager at Rugby St Cross Hospital.Moving to Cyprus some 15 years later, she continued her voluntary work with SSAFA first as a caseworker, then branch secretary, branch chairman in 2011, until her current role as overseas regional chair.Tina has also been SSAFA assistant director for overseas and clinical governance, as well as chief executive of two London hospitals.On receiving her BEM, Tina said: “Having worked for SSAFA for 36 years, this presentation is the cumulation of a lot of hard work with my colleagues and the teams around me to support our serving and veteran community over the years.“I am incredibly proud to have been presented with my BEM, which is all the more meaningful because it’s taken place in the Platinum Jubilee year of Her Majesty The Queen, both our Monarch and SSAFA’s Patron.”
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