What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

The assassination of JFK.
They cancelled the Lucile Ball show on television and closed all TV channels down for the evening.
I was 6 years old and couldn't believe they would do such a thing for someone I had never heard of

@Emeraldshamrock

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.

Would that have been Rachel Nickell’s murder on Wimbledon Common?

Foot and Mouth and 9/11, was 4 at the time.

John Lennon's death - Mum was a Beatles fan from the start and was utterly shocked, plus all sorts of Troubles footage on Ulster Television news.

Berlin Wall coming down. I was 8

Princess Anne’s wedding

I remember the Vietnam war, not a specific story just about it generally I would have been a toddler at the time.

The death of Princess Diana. I was six.

Churchill's funeral - they cancelled the 4 minutes of children's television to show it

Challenger exploding. I was sat on my grandma's carpet, watching her old TV with the nobs. I was 3 years' old.

My DHs earliest was the news reports about Australia's Wonderland opening. He was also 3 years' old.

Hillsborough

The moon landing. I remember going outside and expecting to see them on the moon. I was 5.

Turkish invasion of Cyprus, 1974. Now I feel really old...

The miner's strikes. I was at nursery school and about three. My mother used to sit me in front of ITN lunchtime news.

I remember watching the television and wondering why Arthur Scargill's head looked so huge and why he was red in the face. The camera angles and recording made him look quite scary.

Then Thatcher would appear, poised and calm with her handbag and speak in a nice calm soothing voice.

I realise now that the press made Scargill look like a nutter, and the message was clear that the establishment wanted me to think he was a danger to all.

I can remember my aunt telling my mum that Elvis had died
The first one I can remember watching was the Iranian Embassy siege. It must have been on a bank holiday as I can remember we'd been out for the day and my dad watching it on tv when we got home

The Challenger Explosion is the first one I remember seeing on the news.

Chernobyl is the first one I remember living through.

@karala

Churchill's funeral - they cancelled the 4 minutes of children's television to show it

My parents took us to a railway bridge to see the train his coffin was on going to his family home to be buried. It looked like any other train but there was quite a crowd at this small rural bridge.

The Bradford City Stadium Fire in 1985.

I was 4 - I remember playing out in the garden and coming in to see my mum sobbing at the tv as it unfolded.

Challenger exploding. I was in the child minder's kitchen, back from primary school. I was 6.

Iran / Iraq war seemed to last my whole childhood.

I clearly remember the announcement that princess Anne was expecting a baby in November, and wondering how could they possibly know when it was going to be born.

The death of Diana, Princes of Wales.

1968 European Cup Final, followed immediately (in my head) by the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, with the black power salute and Bob Beamons almost jumping out of the stadium.

The moon landing for me too - I remember being got out of bed to watch it on the news.

Queen Mothers death! I vageuly have a recollection of Diana but more from people telling me than an actual memory

Oh actually no, it was 9/11!

The death of Elvis. The newsreader announced: "The king of rock'n'roll is dead." I had no idea who that was. My mum was in the room and said "Ohhhh" in a mournful voice and then they gave more details, and I knew who they were talking about as I had heard of Elvis Presley.