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.
Emergency services spend two hours rescuing drunk man from the edge of Oldham quarry
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor the latest news from in and around Oldham sign up to the MyOldham newsletter here Emergency services spent an hour rescuing a drunken man from the edge of a quarry in Oldham on Saturday night (April 24).
Just before 11pm, crews were called to the quarry, off Thorpe Lane, in Austerlands to help an intoxicated man. North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) called the Oldham Mountain Rescue Team (OMRT) to the scene, to help with getting the man, who was unconscious and perched dangerously on the edge of the quarry, down.
The team, who sent 11 personnel to the scene to help with the rescue, discussed the incident on their Facebook page. A post that accompanied a picture of the scene read: "Late on Saturday night, the team were called out to the
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