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.
First UK Covid cases confirmed one year ago - how crisis erupted to kill 100,000
mirror.co.ukA year ago today, an anxious student rang the NHS because he was worried about his mum's cough and fever. The 23-year-old's parents had flown over from China's Hubei province to visit him in York, where he was studying, when she fell ill.
Ambulance staff wearing hazmat suits escorted the patient from the Staycity hotel, where she was staying, to hospital in Newcastle.
Tests would confirm what medics most feared, and on January 31, the government sombrely announced the first known Covid-19 cases in the UK, as two family members were found to have the virus.
Twelve months later the UK has become the fifth country in the world to pass 100,000 Covid deaths - with the government accused of a string of devastating failures.
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