News stories from your youth that have stayed with you

[JabbaDaButt]

Researching Meryl Streep films for a work quiz reminded me of the infamous Dingo took my baby case.
I was nearly 9 years old that summer but I remember it being all over the news and on the newspapers headlines.
So glad the parents were exonerated of their baby’s death eventually.

Showing my age but I have a distinct early memory of seeing footage of 9/11 in a TV shop window in Skegness.

Jamie Bulger
princess diana
9/11

Holly and Jessica. Just a hideous case, I'd never heard of anything like it before.

Iran / Iraq war and ayatollah khomeni (sp)
thatcher, carter, miners strike and Arthur scargill , riots, toxteth, Brixton, ira bombings, the guy who did the hunger strike, Bobby sands?
berlin wall coming down, Nelson Mandela, Elvis dying, bob marley dying

I watched it unfold on my portable B&w tv, surreal. I had to go out and talk to real people as couldn’t believe it was happening

Heysel
Bradford football ground fire
Hillsbourgh
Hungerford
Zeebrugge

I was at school in Hagley at the time of the minibus crash. I remember getting the train to school and there was at least one of the usual kids missing. I was at the other school so we hadn't been friends but the same group was always on the train each day so it was noticeable. It always comes to mind when I see those roadworks trucks on the motorway with the arrows to tell you to move across.
I remember hearing about Stuart Gough after the event, but knew of his family.
Another lad from school got killed when he was knocked off his bike too. There was definitely a time when it felt a very sad place but I'd forgotten a lot of this.

Also the Wests. I was 15/16 and would call for my friend every morning and read the latest developments in the morning newspaper before going to school. It was the first story I properly followed and read avidly about it.

I just remember so many children being kidnapped in the 1970s .

It always seemed to be the top story in the news.

Boys playing football on the beach.

Israeli army snipers picking them off one by one.

I'll never forget that footage from my early teens. Heartbreakingly, thousands more children have been killed, and horrifically maimed, since then.

My earliest was the Zeebrugge ferry disaster and Hillsborough.
I also remember Leah Betts and the range rover murders (so many films made about it so it obviously caught the public imagination. There was that video that was shown at school shortly after.

Princess Di's engagement and wedding.
My elder sister was a huge fan and had the Princess Di haircut and later on, the same style maternity dresses (floaty chiffon monstrosities with huge peter pan collars) 🤭

the murder of a local girl who got into what she thought was a taxi in London only it wasn't saw it on the front of our local newspaper and my blood ran cold as I realised I knew her she had attended the same dance school as me she was a twin as well really awful

Yorkshire Ripper, Genette Tate, Jamie Bolger...

Elvis dying. I can vividly remember it being a really hot day and going to my aunties house and her coming to the door saying “Elvis has had a quick call”
I was just 5 and it is one of my most vivid memories. I’m not sure why as im sure none of my family would have been making a scene about it but I can remember it as clear as day