What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

So was there a film of the second plane hitting?

Yes.

I think I saw that live, but it gets muddled. I know I saw the towers come down, I'd moved from my bedroom to the living room.

Because of medication I was on I used to have a nap at lunch time and I woke up about 2pm which would be about when the second plane hit.

This is kay Burley reporting the first plane and then it goes to CBS

As well as the moon landing, I also remember the fall of Saigon and the death of Franco. I was that kind of kid. We were that kind of family.

In terms of actually watching/seeing the news, it was Hillsborough. I remember being at my aunt and uncle's house and it being on telly. Despite the fact that my cousin had just been born and that was why we were visiting, Hillsborough was all the adults spoke about that day. I would have been 10 and I was struggling to understand, but the images from the news report and the testimonials of survivors have stayed with me ever since.

Before that, I was very aware of certain news stories. A horrific child abduction/murder took place in my town in the early 80s. The child was a year older than me. It was talked about a lot and parents became much more over-protective but I don't remember actually seeing any news coverage. Same with Piper Alpha.

Oh and I remember watching Andrew and Fergie's wedding and dressing up as princes/princesses, brides and grooms at school the day before, which seems very odd now.

I remember strikes and 3 day week in the 1970s
Princess Anne's first marriage
Murder of paper boy Carl Bridgewater
Disappearance of Jeanette Tate
Kidnapping of Lesley Whittle
IRA pub bombings

All 1970s - I don't know the chronology and how old I was for each event though ; I was probably teenage for some

Also remember heatwave 1976 and Queens jubilee 1977

John Lennon being shot. I was 10. My dad was a huge fan. I remember him shouting the news to my mum. Then going into school and we were all numb. The city went into mourning. Lennon/ Beatles music and photos were everywhere in the local media.

Probably Princess Diana, I'm the same age as Prince William so him losing his Mom struck I a particular way. My friend called me (brick of a mobile) and I remember sitting in front of the telly in my nightie watching it.

I remember seeing stuff about the Gulf War on daytime telly

Yorkshire Ripper and the apparent recording of his voice.

@Pet8

John Lennon being shot. I was 10. My dad was a huge fan. I remember him shouting the news to my mum. Then going into school and we were all numb. The city went into mourning. Lennon/ Beatles music and photos were everywhere in the local media.

You’re the same age as me Pet8.

The Lockerbie bombing, I was still at primary school at the time it was so close to christmas and pretty close to home.

Oh, how could I have forgotten Chernobyl. I don't remember seeing news coverage but we had a special assembly at school where we were told about it.

I saw lots of awful news surrounding the troubles.
I do remember as a child hearing of a young woman in England her throat was slit in a random act she was in a park with her baby I thought of her a few times.
It must be near 30 years ago.

The ones that stick with me are what was happening in Bosnia in the early 90s and Terry Waite getting released. I had no idea why he hadn’t been allowed to come home but was happy because he looked a bit like my dad!

I do remember chernobyl but not really seeing the news about it but my Mum saying we weren't able to go out because the rain might be contaminated.

JFK being shot

@Snowwhitestripe

The Lockerbie bombing, I was still at primary school at the time it was so close to christmas and pretty close to home.

Lockerbie really stayed with my mum. She was watching the news and holding DSis who was about a month old, and she says she just cried and cried.

When we won the World Cup in 1966

Gulf war, because they interrupted Children's BBC (when that was just an afternoon slot on BBC1) for the news updates. I was too young to really understand it but remember thinking it must be important.

Stardust fire in Dublin 1981.

48 dead, hundreds injured.

Sad💔

JFK. We had American neighbours one of which was screaming in the street, my mum slapped her face and told her to pull herself together! If i remember rightly, they cancelled Blue Peter and I was a bit miffed...

The kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle which was in the news for 11 months when i was 4
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_and_murder_of_Lesley_Whittle

Iranian Embassy Siege.

Lockerbie

The war in Kosovo when I was about 7

One of my primary school classmates was killed on holiday abroad. I remember coming down stairs and seeing the paper on the table and asking my mum why my friend was on the front page (school photo). She hadn't heard me coming down and had left the paper out by accident. It happened over the school holidays and when we all went back to school first thing the teacher did was sit us all down and talked about it.
I think the next one was the Dunblane shooting which I don't think was much later (or maybe it was earlier?)

Oklahoma City Bombing.

I can remember going to church that night and all the adults in the youth area kept huddling, and there clearly needed to talk, something big was going on and it was weighing on them, but they didn't really want us to be involved in it. After that it was everywhere, which made their behaviour click.

My family were never big on following the news, which may be why I was older than many of the other ages I'm seeing, but this was the first time I recall news deeply affect so many adults - it was very smile and pray through it type of communities on the surface with everything else behind closed doors - so I think that's why it stuck in my mind like that, like even the smilest church ladies looked ill.