What was the first major news story you remember as a kid?

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Mine was the disappearance of Madeline Mccann in 2007 - I was 10

Zeebrugge

Power cuts, 3 day week and strikes in 1973. I certainly remember the power cuts - would have been 4ish.

Louise Woodward

Me too, I remember how the news affected Saturday morning kids TV (Going Live, I think it was)

Tensions of the Cold War building, used to have nightmares about nuclear bombs! Xx

Aberfan. Seeing our schoolteachers, as well as the other adults in our lives, so devastated made an impression. Followed a few months later by the wreck of the Torrey Canyon oil tanker, with TV footage of dying seabirds.

After those, the news was a thing to sometimes notice, rather than something just for grownups.

The murder of Lesley Ann Downey at Christmas … horrendous

Same.
There was also a case of a paper boy being murdered in Shropshire which was around a similar time - possibly later .

Falklands, I was five. I remember asking my mum if we were going to get bombed and then my mum explaining how far away the Falklands were.

Me too, was coming on to say this, we lived in Kent so knew a family sadly involved. I was about 7 I think

I remember Maggie Thatcher becoming PM and I remember a hostage situation on a stationary plane where there was footage of bodies being pushed down the plane steps. I'm not sure when that was, late seventies maybe?

The death of Lord Mountbatten in 1979, I was 8.

I do remember the power cuts etc of the 1970s but more that they were happening and how we were affected than as news articles . I remember Princess Anne's wedding as we had the day off school .

Zeebrugge ferry.
I have snatches of other things. But this was the first I saw as an on going disaster.

Elvis.

Princess Diana dying i was 15.

9/11 @ 19. The one that affected me the most.

The first ones I think back to are the Dunblane school shooting, I was 10 years old it was 1996, followed by Princess Diana dying in 1997.

I'm not sure which was first but I remember coming home from school on the day of the Aberfan disaster to find my mum crying in the kitchen. We lived in Orpington when I was a child and I remember the excitement when Eric Lubbock won the bye election. I can also remember the constant news reports every night on the Vietnam war.

That's mine too. Although to be fair I did have to ask who Elvis was. I was 8.

The sinking of the Sir Galahad in The Falklands. I had just turned 3, my mother was watching the news while ironing.
My father had left the army 4 years earlier and was on the reserve list. His regiment (lots of close friends, mine and my sister’s godparents) had recently arrived on another troop ship.

Aberfan (showing my age!!l) I didn't realise the extent of it at the time as was only little but heard my parents talking about it

Diana Spencer marrying the Price of Wales.

Aberfan . I would have been six or seven. I also have memories of Myra Hindley and the Profumo scandal.

Fred and Rose West I think - or Diana's death, whichever was first

The Moors murders. I remember how upset my mum was. It wasn't until I was much older that I really understood why.