What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Hillsborough.

I remember watching it and thinking all the people climbing were trying to get in and how daft they were. I didn't realise they were desperately trying to escape. That footage knocks me sick to this day.

Also the Lockerbie bomb. All those poor, the footage of the crushed houses.

Skylab

The London Kings Cross station fire. The footage of smokey fire fighters coming out of the underground still gives me goosebumps. It must have been hellish.

Queen's coronation. I was 3, exactly the same age as Anne. Then she came to NZ - I was sitting on my Dad's shoulders when she drove past and waved straight at me with such a sweet smile. DH remembers the Korean War, and also the hanging of Ruth Ellis.

Death of Elvis.

A dismembered body being found in a car boot. Not sure if we had a tv as it was about 1960, it was front page of The Daily Express.

OJ Simpson trial.

The death of Elvis.

Lots of snippets from earlier years but never sure if they are from the time or later e.g. I remember watching the Mary Rose raised but have a feeling that must have been a Blue Peter report later as I would have been 3. The clear I remember exactly what I was doing at the time don't stick out until I was 9/10. I remember Lockerbie, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Hilsborough and fall of Berlin Wall very clearly. Herald of Free Enterprise might be the first one I can be sure of being aware of at the time.

First men on the moon

The children who were shot in Dunblane. I just remember being so shocked and so frightened. Within a few days of that happening my own primary school stepped up their security massively (it was shockingly lax to begin with mind you).

First moonwalk

Piper Alpha disaster

Hillsborough

the oldest woman in Britain/ the world at the time dying, Mrs Carrie White. I think she was 106.

I remember watching the fall of the Berlin Wall on the news and my dad trying to explain it to me. I was four and my main memory is about how happy all the people on TV were

Torrey Canyon oil spill.

I don't remember it actually happening on the day but we were on holiday in Cornwall that Easter (1967) and we weren't allowed on the beaches (whether that was a general restriction or my mother's decision I don't know).

When the passenger plane crashed into the freezihelicopters were trying to drag people out with a tyre on a rope. The few survivors left were too cold to hang on and kept falling back in. Dreadful. Seeing people die in real time.
I was ten.

Chernobyl. I grew up outside Britain in a high fallout area so it really affected us kids - we couldn't play out normally. I was still very little (6) but remember it clearly.

The death of princess Diana.

The Potomac river that should say

Thatcher becoming prime minister.
First woman prime minister. I felt pride at that. I was a small child.
Little did I know.
Then the miners strikes.
Then I knew.
The Yorkshire ripper I remember vividly too.

News in the 70’s was scary for a little kid.

Elvis dying
Then John Lennon

And starting the falklands war

The Yorkshire Ripper

Miners Strikes