What are the news story’s you will never forget where you were at the time.

9/11
Michael Jackson's death
Obama as president
MH370
Paris terror attack
First covid lockdown
Queen's death

Lockerbie - I was driving back to Scotland for Christmas a few days after it happened and remember driving past Lockerbie.
Diana's death.
Invasion of Iraq. I remember DP had the the TV on all day.

9/11
Madeleine McCann. I was living in Portugal at the time and was pregnant with DD so it struck a particular cord.

Princess Diana's death, It was about 2am. I was drunk as a skunk and queuing to order a kebab. When it came up on the security/entertainment screen, instantly sobering :-(

For some reason I don’t really remember anything about the Queen’s death in the news 😳

I was in a building on Eccles Old Road and we heard the bomb go off but thought it was a speeding lorry hitting a bump in the road at first.
I am old enough to remember the Kennedy assassination, I'd been out and as I walked in my brother said excitedly Someone's shot Kennedy. I said it'll be a flesh sound but my dad said I think it sounds serious and at that moment the announcement of his death came on. Next day I was doing my Saturday job but the customers were constantly bursting into tears, it's hard to imagine now that reaction to the death of a politician but he seemed so glamorous, I heard the word charismatic for the first time about him.

Death of Diana - my mother woke me to tell me, it was just before I went back to uni

9/11 - at work in London. Internet was down, no TV so we heard it all play out on the radio. I’ll never forget the atmosphere on the tube home that day, people had the Evening standard with the pic of the towers on fire all over the front page

Grenfell fire - on holiday in France watching French news reports

Death of Queen - at home

Dunblane I def remember discussing at school (sixth form) but unlike the above I don’t recall specifically hearing about it

I was shopping at longsight market, we heard it from there but it wasn't till later we realised what had gone on. Yes I agree, the rebuilding was long overdue.

9/11 is the one that I remember most clearly. My colleague's housemate called him and told him about the first plane hitting. Then we went to a room with TVs on all the different news channels and watched the rest unfold.

I also remember watching Lockerbie and the Berlin Wall coming down as a teenager.

Also 7/7 because I thought DH had gone into London that day, it turned out he had gone to a different office and was fine but I was a bit worried until I could get hold of him.

Princess Diana having been injured in a car accident. I can remember clearly where I was and what I was doing, and I 'knew' that it was serious.
9/11. I can remember clearly where I was and what I was doing.

*Cumbria shootings - at work
*@NigelHarmansNewWife

We were on holiday in the Lake District and had been out for a walk all day. In the afternoon when we got back to the car DH had the news on the radio while we were taking our boots off.

They were giving a time line of events and where all the shootings had taken place and it was getting closer to where we were. Just starting to think "Shit is this still happening" when they got to the end of the story and we realised it was now, thankfully, over.

John Smith died in 1994, I was a student at Glasgow at the time (as was one of his daughters) and the news flew round the campus, I found out in the library. He was never First Minister, the devolution referendum didn't happen until 1997.

Diane’s death and 9/11.

Diana's death
9/11
The 7/7 London bombings

Diana's death. I was at home with a young baby, and my Dad rang me to say had I got the TV on. I had, but we were mid Teletubby marathon.

9/11 - in a friends garden in glorious sunshine, and then hearing the news bulletins starting on her kitchen radio. Barely slept that night thinking of those people inside the planes, that really messed with my head for a long time after.

President Kennedy's assassination - although I'll be jiggered if I know where was I when I heard of it. Somewhere else anyway.

It's interesting how some news stories have a place attached to them. When I was a child people spoke about where they were when JFK was shot. That was before my time but the only stories that were as shocking as that were Diana dying and 911.

I remember where I was when some other things happened but I don't think they were quite as epoch defining. E.g. watching Newsround as a child when the Challenger disaster happened (Newsround broke the story in the UK), watching the 1997 election coverage as a student and waiting to see if our constituency changed colour, sitting at lunch at work when London won the Olympics then 7/7 the next day, Andy Murray winning Wimbledon and my DC's first tooth falling out, the Queen dying and it being announced at the theatre on my DC's birthday.

The Ethiopian famine in 1984. I was 6 and I can still remember seeing the pictures on the news.

There have been a lot since, but that's the earliest I think!

Princess Diana’s death
9/11

Hillsborough
Diana
9/11
7/7
Thatcher’s death
Queen’s death

Also, the atrocity at Dunblane.

Death of Elvis; death of Diana; death of John Smith, former Scottish First Minister; 9/11.

9/11. I was walking home from work and was mildly surprised to see police horses out. I thought there must be a football match and trouble from that.

Then popped in to a corner shop and they had a TV on silent with the planes going into the tower and the headline, Terrorists Attack America. Went home and turned on the BBC.

I'd never heard of the Twin Towers before so didn't know they were supposed to be iconic.

Think I'm a couple of years younger as I don't remember JFK but cried when Bobby Kennedy was killed. Remember being horrified that he was shot in the head. I was 10.

The biggest event was, for me, the moon landings. Stayed up through the night to watch, got Parents out of bed to see Armstrong leave the capsule.
I thought everything here would change.

The Dunblane school shooting :-(