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.
A kind-hearted Scots schoolgirl was left devastated after a cruel grinch swiped her Christmas charity bucket from her home.
Lucy Stewart suffers from rare conditions, Tracheo-oesphageal Fistula and Oesophageal Atresia, which affects her food pipe leaving her struggling to swallow and breathe.
The 11-year-old had been raising funds for The Archie Foundation which works with families to allow parents to stay in hospital with sick kids.
The Elgin schoolgirl relies on the charity during her Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital visits, and had just been discharged after struggling with painful bowel issues.
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