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 Scots SAS hero who executed his girlfriend with a Gulf War machine gun is feared to have returned here after being released early.
Veteran Thomas Shanks was jailed for life in April 2000 for the murder of Vickie Fletcher outside a pub in Castleford, Yorkshire.
Nurse Vickie, 21, was gunned down by the former soldier on May 7, 1998, after she dumped him for a former patient. The Glaswegian, then 47, and holder of the Military Medal, fled to his home city where he was captured.
It is feared he may have returned to the city and adopted a new identity after winning early release from an English prison.A source said: “Shanks is a professional soldier and used to adopting a new identity and keeping a low profile.
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