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

Death of Elvis. Mum came in crying. First person I remember dying.
Death of Princess Diana. I was in the bath and DP came in to to tell me. I insisted it was a hoax. 9/11 I was in the hairdresser and I'd never heard of the world trade centre and couldn't hear properly what people were saying because of the dryers. Got the bus home afterwards and a woman got on crying saying people were jumping off the building and her son worked there. Had to fetch DS from school early as they'd decided to close.

9/11 I remember hearing at work. Then I went home and spent the afternoon and evening stripping wallpaper in my hallway listening to a radio station from New York giving info about public transport and where to go for help. Weird.

I was travelling for work and staying in a very 1970s style b&b when the concorde crash happened.

In a church hall at a Christmas choir rehearsal when the Lockerbie bombing happened. Someone had brought chocolates and juice to celebrate their birthday. While all those people died just 40 miles from where we were.

911
Diana's death
Manchester Bombings - on a train on the way to Manchester on a school trip! Remember hanging about at Preston Station while the teacher phoned back to school for advice on what to do!

When Cameron and the pig story came out. I was feeding pigs on a farm.

Also Lockerbie

9/11 (weeding my parents garden)
July 7th 2005 (on the tube)
And the happy announcement london had won the Olympic! (Waitrose canary wharf!)

Dunblane
Diana's death
September 11th
Boxing Day Tsunami

Elvis's death - on kitchen radio my mum was listening to
Challenger exploding - in hairdresser's
Cumbria shootings - at work
Diana's death - watching French tv on holiday abroad
Kurt Cobain's suicide - in a bar abroad
9/11 - a friend who worked at the Beeb messaged me and I put the news on online at work. I didn't compute immediately that the time difference meant it was just happening.

I can remember exactly where I was when I heard about or saw these things happen.

When Diana died I was a newly qualified nurse on a late shift I had moved back to.my mum.and dad's, I remember my mum waking me up to tell me
And when it was 9/11 I was working nights so i had worked the night before and was asleep in bed and only heard about it when I was listening to the radio whilst I was getting ready for work.

Queens death
Diana's death
Dunblane.
Lockerbie

Kurt Cobain’s death - at students union
Diana’s death - up at a party
9/11 - working in the City, watched the 2nd tower fell in a bar beside our building and the rumour went round that Canary Wharf would be hit
Tsunami - watching Sky news and seeing my group of friends we didn’t know who were ok land in LHR
Madeleine McCann story first hitting - waiting in the foyer of a big city firm with a tv in the wall. A had a dd same age similar heritage and hair

Windsor Castle fire
9-11
Notre Dame fire

I was living in Eccles and was a student nurse when Manchester was bombed in 1996 my sister was in Manchester that say catching a train back to her university and were all Evacuated for a " controlled explosian"
It was a miracle nobody was seriously hurt !
As awful as this sounds it was the making of the Manchester City centre we have today, they were forced to rebuild it.

The Dunblane massacre.

Diana's death.
I was about 16 and remember being up and on the phone when the news hit.

9/11

7/7

Beslan school terrorist attack.

The Boxing Day Tsunami

Madeline McCann. My baby was born a few days after she went missing and it has always stayed with me that we have had her for as long as Madeline has been gone.

Paris terrorist attacks.

The murder of the two students and caretaker in Nottingham.

Take That splitting up
Frank Bough taking coke and wearing ladies' knickers
One True Voice losing at Popstars, The Rivals

Diana’s death because I was in a hotel room in Paris at the time
Buncefield because we were staying with family and my dad phoned me and woke me up to ask if we were ok as it was so close (found house damaged when we got home after the surreal experience of driving towards the fire in the sky)
9/11 as I just remember watching it all unfold on the TV here in my lounge

I can’t remember where I was for anything of significance. Place isn’t a category I remember particularly.

9/11, Diana's death, first covid lockdown, manchesters arndale centre being bombed.

Diana's death .

Oh and Lockerbie bombing, was on night shift in a Marie Curie home, a resident had the t.v on when the news broke as I was tending to her medication.

Diana’s death - but more the aftermath because I was in Kenya and away from news coverage and came home to this mass hysteria about it.
9/11

Death of Elvis on holiday in Devon, death of Princess Diana, woke up to hear the news on t.v. 911, had just dropped dc off at school and was walking across the playground when I overheard a mum saying a plane had gone in the World Trade centre. Came home put news on and saw the second crash live into tower.
Felt sickened beyond belief.

Princess Diana, 9/11 and boxing day tsunami.

Dunblane and 9/11

Jill Dando
Princess Diana
9/11