What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

The Herald of Free Enterprise

The Iranian Embassy seige was probably the earliest.
The most vivid was the Bradford fire - I was visiting my grandparents and it was live on TV, burning people staggering onto the pitch, i remember feeling traumatised.

Until I googled them I couldn't have told you the order they came in but things I remember being aware of as a small child:

Winston Churchill's funeral
The death of Richard Dimbley
The 1964 Winter Olympics

But the first news story I remember clearly seeing on tv was Aberfan. I can clearly remember standing in the doorway of the living room as my mum and her friend watched the news and almost being afraid to walk in because the sense of grief was so palpable.

When the awful events of Dunblane broke I had flashbacks to seeing the news of Aberfan as a child.

Murder of Sarah Harper, I was 5. I remember listening to it on the radio, all on my own in the kitchen. I'd never heard of anyone being murdered before.

Edwina curry saying eggs weren't safe. Salmonella scare. There was like CBBC news show for kids so we all knew what was going on in general

Jamie Bulger

@GarlicSoup

I watched Princess Anne marry Mark Phillips

So did I, we watched it at my Nan and Grandad’s house as they had a colour TV

I sort of remember the Guildford pub bombing because one of the victims lived nearby so I heard it being talked about by my parents.

The news story I properly remember though was the Birmingham pub bombings in Nov 1974. Birmingham was somewhere I was familiar with, even at a young age, so it made it all very real. I remember around that time there were also instances of the IRA sending letter bombs to public figures, but the fact about the recipients bypassed me and I was terrified of the post coming.

I have vague memories of Princess Diana dying, but I only would have been 4. I mainly remember photographs in the paper of all the flowers outside Buckingham palace.

The first news event I was properly aware of and have memories of was 9/11 when I was 7

I thought mine was the deaths of Sid Vicious & Nancy Spungeon, but I think they came after the Birmingham pub bombings which as a six year old in Brum really imprinted in my mind.

Éamon de Valera's funeral because we got the day off school!

Dunblane, death of Princess Diana, James Bulger and the BSE crisis (guess that last one was earlier but I remember my DM being terrified of beef for years). Later Sarah Payne was a big story as that was quite near where we lived and my DSis was about her age so again my mum was scared.

HIV/AIDS. First newspaper I ever read.

I was born around the time of the moon landing! So I guess that’s the first news story that I heard 😁
I can remember when Elvis Presley died. Whole family (3generations) asleep but uncle came home from the pub and woke us all up and told us that he had died. My mum was a huge fan so we Watched every news story about it.
The heatwave of 76.

I think John Lennon dying is the earliest I can remember.

9/11 stands out

Zeebrugge

Piper Alpha

OJ Simpson

I was 10 and we learnt all about it in primary school in a lesson called In The News. We then had to do a report on it

Just about all of the ones mentioned. Genette Tate and Caroline Hogg, the Yorkshire Ripper and one nicknamed the fox. Josie, Megan and Lin Russell. Suzy Lamplugh.

I really can't remember a specific news story before I was about 11, even though we watched "John Craven's News Round" every day. I remember the energy strikes of the early 70s happening, but not as news stories iyswim. Same with Princess Anne's wedding. I remember watching it on tv, I was about 5 and bored stuff by it, but I don't remember it being on the news.

The earliest story I can actually remember as news was the Iranian Revolution and the Shah going into exile (in Paris?). I also remember Thatcher being elected a about the same time. I was 11 or 12 I think.

I'm sure there must have been news before that that I was aware of, I just can't remember it now.

Aberfan. I remember my mother crying.

Elvis dying. I was 2, totally in love with elvis and was being driven to our first wee holiday in a caravan. I remember standing between the two front seats hearing on the news he’d died. I don’t remember having any emotion about it just oh well. After that it was the election in 79 and my mum explaining why voting was so important to kept thatcher out.

A mw/health visitor abducted a baby.

I remember being so upset and worried

The Townsend Thorenson ferry disaster.