What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Take That splitting up - I didn’t understand why there were women screaming and they were giving out the Samaritans phone number for people who needed help!

@gabsdot45

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.

I remember that too, I’m in the Midlands too and it scared me as well.

@RainyDaze4

Take That splitting up - I didn’t understand why there were women screaming and they were giving out the Samaritans phone number for people who needed help!

Really?! I remember the Spice Girls splitting up- my 7 year old sister was dreadfully upset for days. I was a massive take that fan and don't remember the split, although I just googled and I was 11 or 12, so well old enough- perhaps I blocked it out!

Challenger

Jamie Bulger and Rachel Nikkel being murdered.

Very very brief memories of Lockerbie (more the aftermarth as my dad flew a lot in those days) and being terrified of him travelling.

I was much older for 9/11, Diana dying etc.

Either Labour winning the 97 general election, or Princess Diana's death. So I was 6/7.

It was either Laika, the first dog in space, (which I only realised a few years ago never came back) or the Berlin Wall going up. I remember the newsreader saying something about people waking up in a different country and asked my Dad how that could happen.

The Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. Saw it on John Craven's Newsround. (Though a quick look on Youtube shows he wasn't the presenter that day, I was convinced he was. Watching it again just now it's no surprise it imprinted itself so firmly in my memory.)

Aberfan

The Aberfan funeral with a line of coffins
I remember my mum crying in front if the black and white tv

Watergate

The death of Princess Diana

Yorkshire ripper.

Bloody Sunday.

I remember sitting on my mum's knee and her telling me the priest with the white hankie was a brave man.

I must have seen something about it and been upset. I would have been 5.

It was about the same time my brother told a neighbour when he grew up he wanted to be an IRA sniper. I think he had heard the term on the news and liked the sound of it.

We were banned from watching news that wasn't Newsround for a few years.

A picture of Elvis in his coffin. I couldnt quite compute the thought this was a dead man, shocked my little self

Raising of the Mary rose.

Remember seeing it on television

Diana dying

John Lennon’s assassination

Charles and Diana's wedding. I would have been 3 .I wanted to be a bridesmaid so my mum put me in a dress and made me a bouquet and I danced around the garden.

Many of these (Zeebrugge and Challender definitely).
I have a very clear memory of watching the raising of the Mary Rose and being terribly excited about it.

Ethiopian famine...I remember it being on the tv news as a child. I used to feel really upset and terrified watching it...such horrific images.

Actually, I do remember Channel Tunnel stuff! One of my classmates went on it when it was very new and we were all really impressed. I remember hearing news about fires in the tunnel and it made me really anxious - I didn't want to go on it in case it caught fire as I couldn't imagine how everybody would get out with it being all the way under the sea. It also seemed to happen more than once in a very short timescale, which made me think it would happen all the time.

Millie Dowler

The Terrible disaster at Aberfan.

Piper Alpha and Lockerbie are the first big news stories. I was about 7 or 8 and I can remember them on the news. My parents were very sad about it.

Before that, there was a local news story of two girls dying in a fire. I was friends with the youngest one, and I still recall her being on the front page of the daily record. My mum had given the journalists a photo of the girl, so that they would leave the family alone.

also remember the Berlin Wall coming down; people where delighted. Even now I still feel strangely emotional about it