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.
Scots carer who stole from 87-year-old widow on day of her husband's funeral dodges jail
dailyrecord.co.ukA carer who stole from elderly widow's bank account on the day of her husband's funeral has avoided a prison sentence. Margaret McPhail, 62, carried out £11,800 worth of cash withdrawals on 87-year-old Agnes Fowler's account from her home in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire.
McPhail - who cared for her neighbours - withdrew the cash between March 5, 2019 and January 21, 2020. She was snared after family members went through bank statements after Mrs Fowler's husband's death.
A transaction found to have taken place on the day of the funeral led to them uncovering further unsanctioned uses of the bank account.
McPhail pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to the single charge of theft. Sheriff Mark McGuire ordered McPhail, of Cambuslang, to pay her victim £2,500 in compensation.
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