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.
Man rushed to hosptial after water rescue as ferry runs aground on island off Scots coast
dailyrecord.co.ukA man was rushed to hospital on Tuesday after a dramatic water rescue off the north coast of Scotland. The MV Alfred, operated by Pentland Ferries, was grounded on the island of Swona at about 2pm during its crossing between Gills Bay on the mainland and St Margaret's Hope on South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
Two lifeboats from Thurso and Longhope were sent to the uninhabited island to help evacuate the 97 people onboard, the coastguard said.
One aboard the vessel has been taken to hospital, the Scottish Ambulance Service said, and has been admitted to Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall.
There were 82 passengers on board at the time of the grounding, the ferry operator said. The ship was being escorted to St Margaret's Hope.A Pentland Ferries spokesperson said: "Passengers had already been transferred to the lifeboats before the ship was refloated." A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the vessel was refloated within 90 minutes of the grounding, and continued under its own power to port. "It has been escorted by the two lifeboats as well as two tugs from Orkney," the spokesman said. " Coastguard Rescue Teams from Kirkwall and St Margaret's Hope were also sent to meet the vessel at port." A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We received a call at 3.26pm and sent one ambulance and a patient transport vehicle to the scene.
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