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 kayaker winched from rapids with 'broken leg' in hair-raising rescue
dailyrecord.co.ukThis is the hair-raising moment a Scots kayaker was winched to safety from fast-flowing rapids after suffering a 'broken leg'.
Dramatic video footage shows coastguard and lifeboat crews springing into action at the River Moriston in Invermoriston near Inverness on Wednesday October 12.
The alarm was raised at around 6pm after reports came in of a man believed to have broken his leg. Battling strong winds, a search and rescue (SAR) paramedic is hoisted down to the scene in the clip.The casualty, surrounded by other kayakers, lay on a rocky area while white water rapids careered past the group.Avoiding huge trees and a number of large rocks in the river, the paramedic successfully reached the man.Within seconds, he was safely attached to
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