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.
Teen diagnosed with cancer after concerned head teacher rang parents
dailyrecord.co.ukA teenager received a heart breaking leukaemia diagnosis after his concerned head teacher phoned home to his parents, Manchester Evening News reports.
Connor Ellerton had previously suffered with multiple ear infections but his GP was not worried about them and prescribed him with antibiotics.
The then 14-year-old, from Merseyside, carried on as normal until his head teacher rang his mother in 2019 after Connor's rugby team training session to inform her something was wrong.
The school asked his parents, Joanne and Ian to come and collect him and they decided to take him to A&E. Joanne said: "Connor had an ear infection and the doctor gave him some antibiotics but it kept happening.
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