What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

The murder of sarah payne

Moorgate tube crash (old gimmer)

Major taking over from Thatcher. I remember getting the impression from the news that she had been made to leave and didn't want to and I felt very sad for her and thought it was very mean of the men that were making her do it.

I have a really vivid memory of watching it on TV and the green carpet we had in the house we lived in at the time.

I was 4.5 years old.

James Bulger. I was 7

Armenian earthquake

Zeebrugee, it was so tragic. I was in my last year of senior school and remember the news reports showing pictures of the ferry listing on its side

Dunblane

President Kennedy’s assassination.

Aberfan. I must have been five or six and watched it on the news with my grandma. It was a school. It resonated. Have never forgotten it.

Then I remember the 10 day war, mostly because a family holiday to Israel had to be cancelled. Again I was about six and I remember standing at the window looking at a streetlight when my dad told me the holiday was off. And feeling really really sad but not being able to crystallize exactly why.

Good idea op!

I remember watching the San Francisco bridge hanging in the earth quake and also grace Kelly funeral. Not sure which one came first.

James Bulger
Think of his family a lot

Charles and Diana’s wedding. I was 3 and playing in the garden when my Mum called me in to watch it on the TV.

The first one that comes into my head is 9/11 - as in I remember watching it on the telly and my mum walking in and thinking I was watching a really violent film.

Twin towers

I remember hearing a lot of Yugoslavia and Bosnia on the news. Princess Diana being killed.

Lockerbie. I was very young and I vividly remember the imagine of the cockpit broken in the field and asking my parents about it.

The Berlin Wall falling.

John Major replacing Margaret Thatcher as PM.

And the Gulf War. Mainly because I had no idea where it was and genuinely thought there would be a war in my town.

1969 moon landing. I was under 3 but I distinctly remember older siblings and parents being excited about it and pointing out the moon to me.

The Dunblane shooting

Challenger.

The moon landing.

I think it was the abduction and murder of Sarah Payne. I was the same age as her (8 years old), and it was discussed a lot in school (amongst the kids).

Maggie getting elected. First female prime minister. I was 6. I thought it rocked.