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.
Builder wakes from coma to find he'd blown off hand and mum's roof with bedroom firework
mirror.co.ukA builder woke up from a coma to find he'd blown off his own hand and obliterated the roof of his mum's house after setting off a firework in his bedroom.
Paul Carr accidentally started the blaze with the 'industrial strength' firework that destroyed his attic room while his mum and young cousin were downstairs, reports the Liverpool Echo.
While they were not seriously hurt the 28-year-old construction worker lost his right hand in the blast as well as the index finger and thumb on his left hand.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Carr had told a paramedic that he had been 'grinding industrial fireworks to be turned into gunpowder.' He later admitted being responsible for the blast, on the basis that he'd been trying to combine two fireworks
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