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

Dunblane.

I was working on a daily regional newspaper and in the newsroom at the time.

The energy and way the place came to life to mobilize the coverage of the story was a sight to behold. I was sent out onto the streets to get local kids to light candles in the cathedral.

It was a real eye opener in terms of how shocking and sad news is dealt with in such a matter of fact way and it really put me off a career as a journalist.

I'm ROI, we used to watch RTE and UTV, we heard all about each and every horrible shooting and knee capping every night. We knew about the landslide (😞) too.

The Soham murders were absolutely horrendous and unthinkable- the school caretaker was always a trusted and liked dependable member of staff/piller of the community of sort of person so that shook me too.

Mine are
Potters Bar train crash
Hatfield train crash
9/11
Japan tsunami

I remember my brother coming into my room and saying Diana was dead and was confused as I didn’t know anyone called Diana until I realised It was Princess Diana

9/11. We were in Mexico on our honeymoon and due to fly back home. We hadn’t seen any news so went to reception to check it it to be told that all flights were cancelled. I remember checking back into our room and watching the news for hours. We eventually flew home the following day

Well yes and with me not having lived there, those were the things the media told me about, I guess the less big things were more prevalent for people living there. I don’t know the average age here, but no one has mentioned Aberfan that I have seen (I’m Welsh, but wasn’t born then). And that was fucking horrific too.

Barcelona Olympics
Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
Princess Diana's death
9/11
Concorde decommissioning
Grenfell

Gosh, that's so true. And yet there are some images that I'm sure everyone remembers, like the photo in Omagh just before the bomb went off that was recovered from a camera at the scene that was in all the papers with people's faces blacked out.

People have spoken about the Manchester bomb, and I certainly remember the Brighton bomb because we were on holiday in London at the time.

I remember being very annoyed as a child in a BBC only household that I didn't see Tommy Cooper die live on TV (everyone was talking about seeing it at school the next day).

Someone above has mentioned Yvonne Fletcher's death, that was the Libyan Embassy in 1984. The Iranian Embassy seige in 1980 was the one they famously interrupted the Snooker to show live on TV.

I remember an IRA bombing in the city, I was in my friends high rise a mile away and a huge bang and a massive mushroom cloud went up. I think it was in '93/4?
I also vividly remember Amy Winehouse's death. I was at the kitchen sink and my cousin came in and told me and I cried.
I did not even know what the twin towers were on 911!? My stalker ex called me ranting about it and I just thought it was another load of abusive nonsense.

For 7/7, I was in Dublin, but my sister was in London. I sat at my computer trying to figure out if she would have been anywhere near the bombs, but I had no idea of the geography. It was really scary.

27/3/77 worlds worst air disaster, although it wasn't actually in the air
Two planes collided on the runway in Tenerife.i was in labour with my oldest son

Berlin Wall
Diana
Dunblane
9/11
Madeline McCann
Soham murders
Lisa Potts - machete in a nursery
7/7
Queen dying

There's not enough good news stories 😞

And they were just the 'big' ones. There were so many things, it felt like every week. It's just interesting that it hasn't come up here that much.

7/7...we were in Egypt and and it happened 3 hours before we were due to fly home. We were sitting in the hotel lobby watching on TV, just before leaving for the airport.

It was an absolutely terrifying flight. Lots of delays to outgoing UK flights which put us right on edge as no one knew exactly why they were delayed. Whole squads of armed guards everywhere in the airports in both Egypt and Gatwick and all we heard were whispers and rumours about planes into London also being a possible target. I couldn't get on a plane for about 8 years after it and still hate flights now.

*Eniskillen - internet hiccup

I’ve recently spent four days in Belfast talking about nothing else so weirdly couldn’t muster it for this thread, but you’re right:

Eniskille
Omagh
Bobby Sands

Wasn’t born for Bloody Sunday.

Hillsborough Disaster. I was 8 and on the front page of the newspaper was the photo of people being crushed against the fence. I will never forget that photo.

The Warrington bombing with the photo of the little boy lying dead on the ground.

9/11 was a strange one as I was on a plane heading towards America as it happened.

Remember Diana. Remember 9/11. Remember the Queen dying.

Holly and Jessica were murdered right near where I lived in Soham (2002) at the time and my horse used to get petted by them and other children all the time (I was 18) . I didn’t know them by name but I used to say hello to all the children locally and recognised them. That was absolutely horrid and remains so. Absolutely horrific for those little girls and their families and community.

I then moved to Bristol and lived very close to Joanna Yeates in 2010 (same road) again didn’t know her personally but I was a similar age height and build and looked like her (26) that affected me very deeply and traumatically and she still does I often pass the road as I work close by and if still affects me. It changed my world as I was terrified of strangers or people knocking on the door for a long time and to be honest would still check the ring video before answering but nervous with neighbours etc

As in having a clear memory of where and how, I remember the funeral of President Kennedy on tv as one of my earliest memories, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus - I was on a plane with my parents heading to holiday in Spain, the assassination of Lord Mountbatten - I was driving to my new flatshare, Dunblane massacre - on a plane again. I think things like the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, death of Diana, 9/11, Boxing Day Tsunami I was at home and saw on TV. My neighbour rang me to put on Sky news on 9/11 and I saw the second plane hit.

Listening to the wireless over tea in the living room (I was 5, ok?) when they told us Georgette Heyer had died - I mostly remember my sister's reaction, tbh I tended to ignore the news at the time
Woke up to the radio for Diana
Got back from the health club after taking toddler S1 swimming to H saying "I presume you've heard the news?" Nope, no idea (9/11)
Got to the in-laws' after Christmas and picked up their paper. H asked sarcastically "any big news stories?" and felt a bit bad when I said "well, there's been a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean and 100000 deaths, does that count?"

Most stories I don't have a particular memory of hearing - eg Thatcher's resignation, I remember [friend I'd seen earlier] leaning out of the music department window calling "have you heard the news?" and calling back "YES!!" as I ran past, but though I know it will have been in my student room, probably read by Charlotte Green, I don't remember hearing it. Maddie I just remember sitting waiting with the other nursery parents, and one of the more outspoken women (a great-gran actually, iirc) said what we were all thinking...

Elvis and Lennon I don't have any recollection of. By that point I was helping on my sister's paper round so tended to pick up the main headlines, but I genuinely have no memory of either being a news story. By the time I was aware of them it was of people who were already dead. We were (obviously!) not a pop music household, but this is still odd.

9/11 it’s one event that radically changed the world.

Kennedy's death at home with my parents
Diana's death at home with XH
9/11 at home with DD1
7 October at home with DP

My friend and I were staying with some friends in Northumberland. They didn't routinely have the tv or radio on, so the first we heard was when a friend of theirs called round and told us.

The friend had a reputation for being a joker, and they didn't believe him. They thought it was a wind up, so we thought it must be a joke, too. I went out to drop their son off at the swimming pool, and was driving along the coast road to the leisure centre at Whitley Bay when I heard.

(this is no criticism of anyone, I haven't said anything about NI myself here) but isn't it a bit mad that all the NI bloodshed has barely come up here? Like we were all totally immune to it?

Diana's death as I dreamt about it, woke up to a phone call from my boss telling me. My dream was exactly right.

9/11 - baby born in March. FIL upstairs doing DIY and I heard the TV downstairs but it wasn't what it was supposed to be.

7/7 - had a tiny baby, saw the bus bombed but didn't understand the magnitude with having the baby and a badly injured toddler from something unrelated.

Prince Phillip dying.

The Queen Elizabeth Dying.

Dunblane.

Hungerford.

Iraq war number two.

Diana's death - sitting reading the newspaper on a Sunday morning at home, someone then turned on the radio/TV.

9/11 - first week in my first "adult" job, no work got done that afternoon.

Boxing day tsunami - at my parents house in Spain, trying to work out where in Thailand my sister had said she was when we spoke to her the day before (we worked out she was in a different area thankfully!)

Queen's death - the day before my grandmother died.