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.
Homeless tourist sleeping in car park helped by Stirling residents after house was gutted by fire
dailyrecord.co.ukA tourist sleeping in a car park in Doune after his house burned down has thanked a village for coming to his aid.Tom Crump, 35, travelled to Scotland with his three dogs last month but has been left with nothing to return to after police from his hometown in Derbyshire called to say his home had been destroyed in a fire.He was about to go back when his truck also broke down and he has been left stranded in Doune Ponds car park.Despite the bad luck Tom’s spirits have been lifted by the local community who rallied around him.The tree surgeon said: “The locals have been amazing, bringing me heaters, food, picking up my washing, bringing the dogs food and even letting me use their shower.“I’ve been walking people’s dogs for money and I’m contacting all tree surgeon firms to see if I can get work.“I’ve lost everything, all my possessions, the value in the property and all the improvements I had made on which I had spent £45,000 of the inheritance my dad had left me.”Tom’s two-bed terraced house suffered so much damage in the blaze, caused by an electrical fire, that the building has been left with structural damage and is deemed unsafe.He now cannot return to the home which he bought for £55,000 in 2017.
Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area. He is currently in negotiations with his insurance company.Tom, who hails from Worcester, had been enjoying spending time in Loch Lomond, Argyle and Bute and Aviemore in the Highlands.The tree surgeon, was towed by a local from Callander, in Stirlingshire, to a car park in Doune.He is now living there with dogs Marley, 12, Missy, nine and one-year-old Sifa.Tom said: “It really meant a lot to me when I bought the house as I’d been homeless a few times as a child and I
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