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

On a more positive note, the Berlin Wall coming down.

Gosh, so many.
9/11 and 7/7
Diana's death
Dunblane
Zebrugge
James Bulger
Disappearance and murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman (I was working for Cambridgeshire Police at the time)
Hillsbrough

Thanks lovely, I work for a charity and one of our community development areas is Ynysowen which incorporates Aberfan, and I have to stop halfway whenever I visit them to have a good cry before I get there. My grandcha was a teacher nearby and they closed down all the local schools to help with the rescue effort and I’ve never forgotten what he told me about that day. ❤️

9-11
also the Bali bombings - I was there when it happened. I will never ever forget that.

Also: the conviction of Harold Shipman. I was at work, and we had a visiting colleague from China, and he seemed to think that Shipman was typical, and that if he registered with a GP here, he was automatically going to get murdered! I tried to persuade him otherwise.

When I was still a kid: President Nixon's resignation, and Gerald Ford being sworn in as president.

The assassinations of Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin.

Lockerbie - was making mince pies when the tv programme was interrupted, dreadful evening.
Piper Alpha - came home from a walk, lovely sunny day, such an awful event
Diana death - woke up to it
Manchester bombing - watching news before bed, ended up watching all night
Raoul Moat - watched it unfold live on tv
Derrick Bird (taxi driver) - came in from work and put the news on, remember it being a glorious June day
9/11 - watched it live, couldn’t believe my own eyes, and it still looks so unreal to me
Queens death - we all watched it at work
Soham murders - was in the area when the girls bodies were found, horrible time, poor families
Shannon Matthew’s - had just left my job for a new one the day they found her, hope she’s doing fine now
7/7 bombings - first week of a new job

Need to have the news on less maybe? 🤷‍♀️

Ah yes Michael Jackson’s death, not a huge tragedy in the scheme of things but I was driving around the highlands of Scotland with dh with no phone or radio. We came across a garage that had one of those newspaper headlines things in the forecourt and I recall seeing “Jacko Dead” and us frantically trying and failing to tune in a radio station in the car. It’s very interesting how the way you hear about things has changed so much with technology. These days with SM almost everyone hears about the big stuff immediately

9/11 - I had just returned home from school
Soham murders - it was the summer holidays and I remember being invested in the story as I was the same age as Holly and Jessica
7/7 bombings
Manchester arena bombing

I don't remember seeing it on the news but I do recall walking around Torremolinos on holiday and seeing Madeline McCann missing posters.

Elvis,in a gift shop in Wales and heard oh radio
Dunblane at work and was on ward TV
Maddie at home watching news ,I think about her a lot .
Tsunami at MIL house . Sons friend was in Malaysia on beach holiday so we had to keep news off until we new friend and family safe . Friend had a picture of a sea turtle as gift for my son . Sadly the beach hut and surrounding area was completely destroyed so the artist had probably drowned. It’s a very treasured picture.
Diana driving to work and thought it was strange that Radio 1 playing subdued music ,then heard announcement
Lockerbie at my Mums because I had just flown home from Oz because my Dad had died suddenly.
9/11 picking children up from school
7/7 just dropped my daughter off at taster day for secondary school
Queen I was at work and a resident told me

9/11 - I'll never forget the images.

9/11. I was unblocking the printer and my colleague came in and told me.
Diana's death - I was involved with someone I shouldn't have been and was with him.
Berlin wall falling. In a club.

9/11

7/7

Brexit referendum

Trump getting elected

Of all things to stick in one's memory forever: Sir Keith Joseph becoming Education Secretary in 1981! I knew he'd be a disaster and he was.

1997 election; especially my mum ringing at about 2 a.m. to tell me that Wimbledon, where she lived, had become a Labour gain!

Apollo 11 moon landing, when I was a kid.

Recently, the Queen's death and funeral, and the King's coronation.

It was indeed! I got the tickets as a surprise present for then boyfriend/ now husband. Getting a photo for the tickets involved setting up a fake party with randomers taking photos of him. He must have thought I was a right weirdo! But still together 😁

@DanielGault It was a good year I remember blur and prodigy being amazing.

September 11. Day after I quit my job. Was on the way to the vet and saw the headlines at the newsagent.

Hillsborough - knew effected people

James Bulger's kidnap - I had family living nearby

Diana's death - just woke up with a stinking hangover,

2 x Manchester bombings , 1996 I had not long visited Manchester with college,
2017, we had friends at the concert

911- I worked in the travel industry at the time, the day the world changed forever

Paris attack- travelling home from a gig, heard the news on the radio

Queens death, I'm sure most people remember this one

Dunblane..on the radio at work
I genuinely thought that can't be right.
Unfortunately it was only to correct.

I was at Glastonbury for MJ death too. Not a fan but it was quite surreal at the time.

Freddy Mercury dying. At home, the first and last time I saw my very working class stoic Dad cry. He wasn't a good man. But that night he felt the emotions that most good people would have felt I think.

In the 90's: Rape becoming a crime between married couples. I remember my mum pointedly telling me about this and the look in her eyes. Wondering if you and your siblings were products of rape kind of stays with you. 😔

Diana dying. Hungover teen. My mum wouldn't let me watch the Hollyoaks catch up as she wanted to watch the news coverage.

911. I was working in a bar and we had it on the TV screens.

James Bulger-had a new baby and watched Anne Diamond and those awful pictures of him being led away.

Diana- was sewing name tags onto son's school uniform for his first school. Couldn't understand why the radio was playing mournful music when I turned it on.

9/11-was at work. Was going into a meeting when someone said a plane had crashed into a building. We thought it would be a light aircraft. When we came out of the meeting everyone actually looked white with shock. I will never forget the atmosphere on the Tube that evening. We thought London would be next - there were so many rumours. Just wanted to get home to the children.

7/7- had celebrated London winning the Olympics the day before in Chiswick. The next day I was driving colleagues to Tottenham Hale station to get home because the whole transport network was affected.

Oh and watching Michael Jackson’s trial verdict, I actually dumped my then BF that day. I cried for MJ’s victim (I always thought he was a pedophile and could never quite understand the support) and my BF was overjoyed that he “was found innocent” (he wasn’t) and was making some very unpleasant remarks about the child victim and how happy he was that he’d been ‘exposed as a liar’ 🙄

I was sexually abused as a child and I realised at that point that I could never ever continue to date a man who looks at the world’s most obvious pedophile and think he’s innocent. My abuser was the least obvious pedophile ever and I couldn’t bear the thought of him not believing me if I ever told him

Also 9/11 - we rang MIL to wish her a happy birthday and she just said 'Put the news on'. We turned it on just as the second plane hit.

Robin Williams' suicide. We were staying with DH's parents and I remember just standing in the middle of their front room absolutely heartbroken. I'd always been a massive fan and his was the first celebrity death that really affected me. Funnily enough, I was talking about it with DS this evening.

Diana's death, woke to alarm for early shift to be told of her death. So shocked.

911 woke from sleep after night shift to see news on TV. Could not quite believe what I was seeing on the tv.

Queens death died on my 60th birthday.

Diana's death - on TV 1st thing in the morning
9/11 - on a bus radio
7/7 - on TV whilst away abroad
1st covid lockdown - watched on a laptop in bed
Queen's death - on an Alexa in the kitchen