What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

The James Bulger murder 😔

The Challenger explosion when I was 8

Famine in Ethiopia - my parents told me not to look at news pictures as they were so upsetting.
Also challenger - there is a very good series on Netflix about this at the moment.
There seemed to be lots of disasters through the 1980s as a child and it always meant that Saturday morning kids tv was cancelled

A couple that I remember from being a child.
Moon landings ( vaguely), Troops being sent to Northern Ireland, Watergate and the Vietnamese boat people.

Lesley Whittle kidnapping. It terrified me as a child.

Lockerbie. It gave me nightmares.

Terry Waite being held hostage. I was about 6.

The fire at Kings Cross

So many tragic news stories.. I can remember them all back to about the. Miners strike.

But randomly i remember when I was about 12 my mum telling me to come see history being made as the govt voted whether to bring back hanging
We watched the result live.. They rejected it of course

Zebrugge ferry I think I was about 4

Like many others, the death of princess Diana. Probably the first time I actually sat and watched the news

The Ethiopia famine when I was very young.

The Josie Russell case where her mum and sister were murdered in a field but she survived. I think I was about 10. Dunblane too which I think was a similar time.

Funeral of chairman Mau ( I have a recollection of watching TV and they were sad)

Grace Kelly dying (likely because my much loved aunt was a huge fan) plus Charles and Dianas engagement I have very clear memories of the news stories and TV coverage so the first I truly remember

I asked dd1 (age22) this recently and her first is Madeleine Macanns disappearance

Ds(age18) says for him its seeing the Olympic torch and the Olympics in London

Dh is the moon landing

Ian Brady and Myra hindley being arrested in 1965. We didn't have a tv but it was all everyone was talking about in hushed whispers .

And yes these replies are making me feel old

I think I remember James Bulger and then nothing until the Dunblane shootings. My dad would read the paper every day and I think I was drawn to pictures and stories about other children.

Zeebrugge too.

Chernobyl, in April 1986. I was 7 at the time. My cousin was born a couple of days later, and I remember something about baby milk being contaminated by radiation or something.

Aberfan.

Some kids tied fireworks to a dog and set them off on Bonfire Night. I was about five and screamed and cried for hours after I accidentally heard it on the news.

I still remember it vividly. Nasty fucks.

Either than or 9/11 when I was 6

1973: Aged 5, I remember my primary school teacher in Kent grumbling about us 'going Continental' - we had just joined the EEC and she wasn't happy. Much fuss about currency too (pocket money!)
I remember my parents talking about Nixon and the Rumble in the Jungle. 1974 Abba's 'Waterloo' I remember that well, aged 6 :)
For myself entirely, I guess Lennon being shot, the heatwave of '76, later was Diana's wedding and the Falklands War (was on a schooltrip in Wales with no newspapers? somehow we didn't know until we left the mountaineering centre) LOTS aged 12-16. I think we were more political as teens then? Going on Demo's in London. Greenpeace.

Now I feel old!

Fall of the Berlin Wall.

John Major loosing the election. Also the sinking of the MS Estonia (had to just google it to find the name) - I remember we had to write a prayer to the victims in RE (incidentally, also the moment I realised I didn't beleive in God).

John Major resigning as Prime Minister. I was only little and I only remember it because they cancelled children’s TV to broadcast his speech and I was outraged 😂 after that it’s the death of Princess Diana.

Lesley Whittle and the killer known as the Black Panther