What is the first news story you remember?

[Lockdowner35]

I think it was Rhys Jones murder in 2007 for me.

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

The Black Panther murderer being caught or possibly sentenced which means I would have been 3 or 4.

[elsaesmeralda]

9/11 probably

[Squeakypotato]

Margaret Thatcher resigning.

[whereisthejoy]

End of apartheid in South Africa (1990)

[Aroundtheworldin80moves]

Dunblane was the first I really remember. I was 9 or 10. I was one of the older pupils at Primary school who became a 'door monitor' checking all the doors were properly shut after break and lunch time.
And the 1997 election.

[toomanypillows]

The Falklands war.
I was at primary school and the teachers rolled the big wheel brown cased TV in so we could all watch it

[toolazytothinkofausername]

The death of Princess Diana on 31st August 1997.

[grapewine]

The Berlin Wall coming down. I was 12 at the time. I've never forgotten those photos.

[SpongeBobJudgeyPants]

Going back to the 1960's, some riot that involved the police defending themselves against missiles with requisitioned (?) old fashioned tin dustbin lids. Don't know what the event was, can't imagine that would google exactly the way I remember it...

[Spied]

Fred and Rose West investigation.

[Scarby9]

First one I took notice of ws the Torrey Canyon - I drew a picture!
First one I remember clearly was the Mexico Olympics.

[FlibbertyGiblets]

Ginette Tate. Same age as me. The first time really that I realised that horrible people existed in RL not just in books or fairy tales. Her Dad died last year not knowing what had happened to his daughter, so sad.

[TinkersRucksack]

Peter Sutcliffe murders, I think about 1978 so I would have been around 5

[Hillbillyhotel]

The Soho bombing in 1999 is my first real news memory,I was 12. My parents never left us but had gone out that night and left DSis and I with my Grandma. They weren’t in Soho and we don’t live in London but I remember feeling really vulnerable without them watching it unfold.

[Dnadoon]

Shanklin pier (IOW) blowing down in the storm October 1987. We had holidayed there in the August, it was beautiful

[Mumshappy]

The Brighton bomb

[rbe78]

The sinking of the MS Estonia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia#Sinking
I remember having to write a prayer for the victims in RE class - I'd have been in Year 2 looking at the date.

[EspressoExpresso]

Foot and mouth 2001

[slidingdrawers]

Raising of the Mary Rose, though on Blue Peter rather than the news.

[eddiemairswife]

A boy in foster care who was neglected, starved and beaten and died.
I read it in the Daily Mirror in 1945 when I was 7.

[ChooChooCho]

Madeline McCann, watched before school that morning

[RedRec]

When Pete Duel from Alias Smith and Jones died. I was 9 and loved that programme. And it was the first I had ever heard of suicide. My dad told me it was because he had to work on Christmas Day, to soften the blow for me I think. But I still remember the shock and horror I felt. And am 58 now.

[butterycooler]

The Miners Strike in the 80s. I was only around 5 years old but it was happening where I lived so it stuck out.

[Lovemusic33]

The Berlin Wall coming down (I think I was 7)

Lockerbie bombing (I would have been 6)

[WellThankyouAJPTaylor]

Rachel Nickell's murder, I think. Which is weird cos I'd have been a young teenager then I think (without Googling to check the year) - weird that I don't remember anything earlier.

I remember it because the thought of her toddler witnessing it really haunted me.