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.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway welcomes study suggesting minimum unit pricing leads to fewer alcohol-related deaths
dailyrecord.co.ukNHS Dumfries and Galloway has welcomed a new study suggesting that minimum unit pricing in Scotland has led to fewer alcohol-related deaths compared with England.
The research, published in medical journal the Lancet, estimated that since the introduction of minimum pricing in May 2018 to December 2020 there had been 390 fewer deaths and 1,000 fewer hospital admissions.
It noted that prior to 2018, alcohol-related admissions in Scotland were running at almost double the rate south of the border.
But over the 32-month period the gap narrowed – pointing to the scheme’s positive impact on cutting damaging long term drinking.
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