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

Diana’s death - waking up hungover whilst a student in Manchester
Twin Towers - on holiday in Egypt
Thatcher’s resignation - while in a Y10 History class (teacher put it on for us to watch!)
The Queen’s death - while driving into Ikea!

*Diana - I was upset barney was cancelled (I was four/five)
*@ByKindOpalPoet my DD was 22 months at the time and our routine on Sunday morning was to get up with her and stick on the Sunday omnibus edition of the Tellytubbies, which would occupy her while DH and I slowly woke up with copious coffee. I was sitting there, dimly aware that Tellytubbies seemed delayed for some reason before gradually realising what was going on.

Dunblane - I was at home, still on maternity leave, so I used to leave breakfast tele on all morning. I think I must have been still very hormonal because I couldn't stop crying as the news was breaking.

Apollo 11 moon landing. It was my 7th birthday. We got up early to watch it and I was given my presents to open. I literally did not know where to look because I was excited about my presents (got my first watch) but didn't want to look away from the screen for a second.

Diana's death - my partner ran up to tell me. I think I might have recently discovered I was pregnant with my first baby.

9/11 - was collecting my son from preschool and the staff had put the TV on. Rushed home and saw the second plane go into the tower.

I remember where I was when 9/11 happened, when Diana died and when the queen died.

Dunblane

I was very small and visiting my granny with my parents. I remember all three of them crying but didn't understand except they kept talking about those poor little children. It was all over the television and radio news.

I found out later they were distraught over the Aberfan disaster.

It still upsets me now when I think of all that suffering.

JFK is about 20 years before I was born! Quite the thing to have lived through though I would imagine.

Hillsborough
Diana's death
9/11
Queen's death

9/11
Grenfell
MJ death

9/11 for me

I was a very small child when JFK was shot and I can still remember the announcement on television. First saying he’d been shot then some time later that he had died. Can still remember what my mother said as she heard it too.
Also remember when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Out on a walk and we’d gone into a shop to buy a drink. Radio was on.
When Elvis died. At home with small DC and trying to tidy as we had a buyer coming to see the house.
When John Lennon was murdered. In my car just driving into the car park at work.
When Diana died. Early morning news at home.
And remember being told off by my father for skipping along the hallway of our house on the day of Churchill’s funeral. I was being disrespectful apparently ( KS1 age)

I must be older than most of you.
President Kennedy being shot
Aberfan
John Lennon shot
Dunblaneeee
Tsunami
9/11
London bombings
Diana's death
Queen's death

Diana’s death (came downstairs to find my mum crying)

9/11 - off school so saw it all unfold on the news

7/7 - at work

2015 Paris attacks - at home

Grenfell Tower - in France

The discovery of Sarah Everard’s body - at home and burst into tears.

All of these plus death of Diana & London Bridge attacks

7/7 - was on gcse study leave
Queen’s death - at centre parcs and it was very surreal
London Bridge attacks - but mostly because I was drinking in Farringdon and due to go home via London Bridge but it was my friend’s leaving to go abroad do, and she persuaded me and DH to have another. Got a bit into the timeline and worked out we’d have been walking across the bridge at the time. Bit weird.

I remember when Shergar was stolen, it was so shocking. I used to walk past a field that had a horse in that looked just like him. They are all dead now, of course.

Hillsborough. I have a friend who survived the crush. I was listening to the radio in my car at the time.

The first one I remember was the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher at the Iranian siege. We were shopping in Salisbury when local police were hailing and putting signs up trying to find her parents (who were also shopping there). No mobiles or social media in those days.

9/11. I was at home with my new baby, sat on the settee feeding her when DH came home and told me - I had no idea.

7/7 was a bit of a shock, we had a friend trapped on a train in tunnel behind one of the attacked trains

I was painting my bedroom when Jo Whiley announced Kurt Cobain's death on Radio One, and watching Borsalino in bed in the same bedroom when the car crash with Diana was announced a few years later, although I didn't know she had died until the next morning.

Other news I woke up to: the Brexit result (I turned over and went back to sleep in the hope I'd dreamed it), Trump winning the 2016 election (ditto) and David Bowie's death. When the September 11th attacks came on TV I was round at my friends helping her colour her hair, and helping another friend move house the day of the Dunblane shootings.

Dunblane
Death of Diana
9/11

Diana - I was upset barney was cancelled (I was four/five)
9/11 - due to go to London a few days later for my birthday
7/7 - at school and we got told the buses might not be running at the end of the day
Grenfell - at work watching the news on the screen
Queens death - at work and reading how all the royals were making their way to balmoral, we knew something had happened

Dunblane - I was at school at the time and my mum was so upset when I got home, she hugged me really tight, I was a teenager.

Fred & Rose West murders - Again, I was at school and we’d be talking about how they’d found another body.

9/11 - I was in my first week as a newly qualified teacher. We were teaching in temporary classrooms that has no internet (wasn’t really a thing in schools back then) and so we didn’t find out until after school when another member of staff came to tell us and told us to come to the staff room so we could watch it on the tv in there. We all crowded round in disbelief.

7/7 - still teaching in the temporary classrooms but by now we had a small portable tv in our office bit so at breaktime we put the tv on.

9/11, had just landed in France for a year for college. Pre smart phone. Myself and my friend were wandering about the town trying to acquaint ourselves, there were still TV shops and they all seemed to be showing the same thing. It was only when I rang home later that I heard what had happened.

Hearing that the first test tube baby was born.

I was in a chemistry lesson stood near some actual test tubes. I often think about her.