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.
Thirst killed 345 non-Covid patients in hospitals and care homes during first lockdown
mirror.co.ukA shocking 345 non-Covid patients died of thirst in hospitals and care homes during the first lockdown. That is a 48 per cent increase on the previous five-year average of 232 deaths from dehydration over the same timescale.
The figures were compiled by the UK Statistics Authority from a six-month study of non-Covid deaths between January and early July.
And they show that lack of water became the invisible killer during the darkest days of the pandemic, when care services broke down.
Care workers could not visit as they either could not obtain adequate PPE or were isolating themselves. Nurse Lesley Carter, of Age UK, said: “It was an horrendous 12 weeks.
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