Which news stories have stuck with you?

[PepperSteaks]

When I was a little girl there was a story in the news that I vaguely remember about a little girl standing on the Christmas tree lights barefoot and dying. I can picture what I thought the girl looked like so clearly all these years later and think about it often.
Do you have any news stories that you still think about?

There was a story of a very young woman who was killed by a train while walking home, a few weeks later the body of her mum was found in the same place, seems like she couldn't go on without her

The poor Chinese cockle pickers who drowned.
Dunblane.
Too many abducted and murdered children to count.
So many abused children.
The murder of 3 year old Francesca Bimpson who was killed in an arson attack especially haunts me. I can see her innocent little face so clearly.
The Cumbrian shootings. I remember watching that live and how awful it felt to know it was happening as I sat safe at home, and to be unable to do anything about I especially picture Jane Robinson who lived with her sister and I believe that they were known locally as the pigeon sisters because they had a small bird sanctuary.

I almost never watch live news now. I browse news sites instead. It's too much for me now. I have OCD so if I read a horrific story it can sometimes play in my head for days or weeks.

Dunblane and Lockerbie. Coming from a small Scottish town the horror seemed even more real.
I also always remember a front page story in the local news - I must have only been about 5 - about a child who had asked if Santa could come early (around Autumn) as his mum was really ill and wouldn’t be there for Christmas. There was a big community appeal to give the family a really special Christmas celebration.

Abigail Witchalls. I often think of her and wonder hows she's doing. A terrible thing to go through but I find her reaction to it inspiring.

James Bulger. He'd be the same age as DS1 now, 28.

Nicola Payne's disappearance from Coventry and Caroline Hogg murder. The first as I had just had my first baby and just couldn't imagine the implications made at the time that she would voluntarily leave her child, and the second as it was probably one of the first news stories I took notice of. I remember her face in the papers everywhere.

Rachel nickell and Jamie bulger for me, my first child was about the same age as both children in these cases so I think that's why they have both stuck in my mind.
Also Rachel was such a beautiful girl and Jamie was so young , both cases were absolutely heart breaking.

Susan Maxwell. She was the same age as me & it was the summer holiday between primary & secondary school.

I am also 47 & clearly remember Bobby Sands being on hunger strike.

The tsunami in Japan and it affecting Fukushima- I was up with newborn DS and thought I was hallucinating while watching the news. Devastating

Also-Hillsborough.
The story of the Mum and teen age boy (am so sorry I don't know his mane) who separated on entry so he could go to "standing" with his mates and died on the day.
Because I see my DS every time.
The footage is horrific
And then the effort to blame the victims adds to the horror

Years and years ago, a school has been taken over by terrorists. I think it was Romania but I can’t remember now.

The men put explosive devices on all the window and some of the children. They were nail bombs included.

I think they eventually let mothers and young babies go but the children were kept for days. 3 if I remember correctly.

It got to hot the kids were having to strip off their clothing.

I remember them finally being let go and the little ones running across the grass in just their knickers sobbing

Leah Betts. I would have been just starting secondary school at the time so about the age to be exposed to the influence of recreational drugs so prevalent in the early 90s.

To this day I've never experimented with any type of recreational drug and I know a number of people that feel the same as that picture of her is imprinted in their brains.

There was also another picture circulated of a different girl who was slumped in the corner of a room that I also recall.

Yes to Fukushima. The footage was unbelievable. It looked as though the world was ending.

Likewise the 2004 Tsunami. I still can't begin to comprehend the scale of that and how many lives were lost. The live coverage was horrific showing people struggling in the water and people being swept away. There are no words.

That sounds like Beslan in Russia, Soubriquet. That was horror beyond words and 334 people were killed there.

@Luglio I can’t even stand to think about it. Just too awful.

dunblane, seeing the footage of the poor mothers running to the school pushing buggies, seems worse now I’m a mum with primary age children

Abbie livingstone-nurse every summer I feel like screaming at people who let their children dig deep holes in the sand to play in.

Hungerford as we were in Savernake where the shootings started. We heard gunshots and I remember my Dad told me it was just a farmer. We had no idea what was happening up the road until we got home later 🙁

Hillsborough as we used to and still do go to football a lot. Made far worse by the lies and coverups jft96

Thank you Ginger

No one seems to remember it. They look at me like I’m crazy when I mention it

Yet I can still clearly see that clip of the children running out of the school,

Made worse by the fact my dad had dragged to the pub which he did on Friday nights and I was watching this live news clip whilst festive and jolly bands were playing in the background

9/11 and 7/7
the Boxing Day Tsunami, just a phenomenal loss of life, utterly horrifying
Dunblane
the Nice and Bataclan Isis attacks. I saw photos on Twitter, which I really wish I hadn't seen

Drumptonpark, I watched a netflix documentary series on that story very recently, I don’t think you imagined it. It was in the US though and the man had tried to rob a bank so police had him at gun point. A very sad and complex story and so shocking to see the man blow up.

One of my mother's dearest friends was murdered in notorious circumstances. DMum found out from the news coverage. Horrid

I'm sorry Soubriquet. Terrible enough to see it let alone in such contrasting circumstances. It makes the horror all the greater. I think that I'd partially tried to block it out but when you talked about I remembered it all too well. So awful to think of how many children(and adults) didn't get to leave, not to mention the trauma of the survivors.

That's horrific Ethelswith. How terrible to hear such news at all but especially to learn it like that. Your poor Mother.

Oscar Pistorious murdering Reeva Steenkemp. Followed that story all the way to trial and watched various documentaries after... it just freaks me out that no one will ever really know what happened that night to that poor girl. Cos the arsehole will never admit what he did. Awful