What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Leslie Whittle found hanging in a drainage shaft after her kidnap that dominated the news for about a year and was found on my 11th.birthday.. victim of Donald Neilson the 'black panther' .. 1975

Falklands War just but the miners strikes very clearly.

The death of Leah Betts, the photos her parents released really impacted me & I think contributed to my avoidance of any recreational drugs

@MolyHolyGuacamole

Berlin Wall. I was 5.

Going up or coming down though?

Jill Dando dying.

I remember hearing about princess diana dying but not seeing it on the news

Fall of the Berlin Wall, age 6

Lockerbie bombing for me

We drove past Lockerbie recently and I got more upset than I ever though I would. Strange how some things never leave you.

@Tunnocks34

Jill Dando dying.

I remember hearing about princess diana dying but not seeing it on the news

I was in my 30s when Jill Dando died but it stands out as the first big news story I heard via the Internet.

My dad sobbing listening to the radio. He was hearing hillsborough happening.

Piper Alpha oil rig fire

The execution of Ruth Ellis. I was a toddler and I didn't know what was going on but I remember my mother and grandmother and a couple of other women talking about what was happening. It was years later when I mentioned it to my mother and said what was going on and she told me. Don't know it that counts as I suppose I remembered their reaction not the story.

The first one where I really remember was the crisis in the Congo, I think it was 1959 or 1960. We were really aware of it as the nuns who taught at my school had a school in the Congo and were obviously worried about their Sisters and the children. A happy story about the same time was Princess Margaret's wedding. She really looked like a fairytale princess and it was all very glamorous. Two strange things that don't really go together. Actually the other thing I remember that year (1960) was Kennedy getting elected. My mother thought he was wonderful and my father thought the Kennedys were a family of crooks.

1960 was obviously a big year for me.

Aberfan

The death of John Lennon.

Leslie Whittle found hanging in a drainage shaft after her kidnap that dominated the news for about a year and was found on my 11th.birthday.. victim of Donald Neilson the 'black panther' .. 1975

I was in bed ill, I caught flu the same week I had my second baby. They brought a TV up to my bedroom and I got very upset as the days ticked by and they still didn't find Lesley Whittle and then I saw Jonathan Dimbleby in a story about the Biafra famine. I got very depressed and was in bed for about 2 weeks. My mother confiscated the TV in the end as she said it was damaging my mental health.

The Berlin Wall. Or maybe Michael jacskon and Jordan chandler.

Death of Princess Diana. Followed closely by 9/11.

Hillsborough.

I was a kid during the Vietnam war. I remember one day watching horrible violent fighting on the tv and my mum was like what are you watching?? “the gorillas” I said. “I’ve been waiting for hours to see the gorillas”. She then had to explain to me they were war guerrillas, not hairy gorillas.

The death of Robert Kennedy . I even remember what my mum was wearing that day.

Moon landings 1969.

Death of Eric Morecambe - I remember my mum being really upset

Charles and Diana's wedding. We were made to watch it at school. Probably as the teachers wanted to watch it.

Princess Diana's death. I was 6.

Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy's death. I was 4. Very random!