What is the first news story you remember?

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I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Elvis Presley dying I was only 2 ! Hard to believe I know but I remember my mum being distraught and we went to my aunties house

The Brighton Grand Hotel bombing.

A really horrible one. I'm in NI and a young boy went missing during the Troubles. The poor child was found dead and the details were very graphic and disturbing. I was was only 6. I wouldn't let my children hear details like that. But the radio was permanently on in our house and my parents weren't always in the room. I probably heard lots of news stories but that one stuck with me.

Death of Elvis

I think it was made worse by the fact that it happened within a mile of where I lived.

rape in marrige becoming illegal, it was about 1992 I think.

Hillsborough Disaster
That newspaper picture will haunt me foverever

Miners strikes. I used to get nightmares that my dad was caught up in it and it looked scary. He was a salesman though so not very likely!

I put nickleloden on in the morning. There was a message at the bottom asking you to turn over to the news for an important announcement. I showed my mum and we turned it over.
It was all about Princess a Diana's Death.
I was about 11/12 so it may not be the first I remember but it definitely stuck with me.

First one i remember following was the death of Elvis. But before that I can remember flashes of the 1976 drought, and earlier, the strikes of the early 70s

A bit random but Michael Foot being elected as leader of the Labour Party.

The Azaria/Lindy Chamberlain case

Winter of Discontent.

Zebrugge Ferry and Exxon Valdez. They were roughly around the same time I think, late 80s. I was 10.

I think it must be the famine in Ethiopia. The images of emaciated children stay with me.

Elvis Presley's death.

Miner's strike

The black panther murders. Happened in the Midlands in the 1970s. Near where we lived. My dad was an alibi for a friend of his who was a (completely innocent) suspect.
It gave me nightmares.

My parents took me to the celebrations after Charles and Diana got married, so probably that. On the telly and as an older child, I remember being very shocked by the Lockerbie pan-am air disaster and the Townsend torrenson (spelling) ferry sinking.

The moon landing.

Either Nelson Mandela being released or Margaret Thatcher leaving office- whichever happened first. My parents threw parties for both 😂 I distinctly remember the six o’clock news being on showing Thatcher in tears as she got in the prime ministerial Jag and the pop of a Champagne cork as my Grandad said “Good riddance!”

Aberfan , it was so close to home & so horrible

first moon landing

The fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Aberfan disaster :(