What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

A baby was kidnapped from outside a shop in our town and it made the national news.

Wonder what or how kids under say 6 will remember of this whole crazy year.

They might not think it's abnormal.

I remember being aware of guerilla war in Mozambique, but only because I thought the newsreaders were saying ‘gorilla war’ and I thought apes were fighting. I was very little.

The first time I remember being properly aware of a news story was The Yorkshire Ripper and his subsequent arrest. I would have been 6.

Watergate

I remember many that have already been mentioned (Zeebrugge, Brighton hotel bombings, Kings Cross fire) but the one that really stands out for me was the Clapham junction train crash which must have been when I was about 10/11. The reason I remember it so vividly is because of my mother telling me that she secretly hoped my father had been on that train. (They divorced, very acrimoniously, a couple of years later).

The murders of Susan Maxwell and Caroline Hogg. I would have been around 7 or 8

The Lockerbie bombing, and then Hillsborough. I know a few people who were at Hillsborough. My grandparents next door neighbours granddaughter was one of the victims.

The moon landing, front page of the papers,

@tigger1001

The murders of Susan Maxwell and Caroline Hogg. I would have been around 7 or 8

We're about the same age.

The Jeremy Thorpe scandal

All round the same time....
The death of Maria Colwell (small girl killed by her stepfather)
Disappearance of Lord Lucan
Moorgate train crash

I'm so old compared to the rest of you!

The raising of the Mary Rose - 1982...watched it at primary school.
Weirdly also remember the deaths of Elvis, Lord Mountbatten & John Lennon because my mum was really sad about all 3 (although don't recall the actual news reporting)

Iranian embassy siege in 1980

But just remembered Genette Tate's disappearance was before that and I remember that clearly!

@nildesparandum I was beginning to think I was the oldest poster on this thread.

My first clear memory was listening to Nixon declare "There will be no whitewash in the White House". I didn't understand what "whitewash" meant... I thought he was announcing decoration plans.

Stuff about saddam hussain and gulf war.

I had to check dates to see which happened first. The three first new stories I can remember are...

The Bradford Stadium fire
Zebrugge ferry disaster
Chernobyl

Lockerbie bombing
Piper alpha oil rig fire

I think I remember Lockerbie too but it might be a false memory.

Zebrugge and the challenger space shuttle crash.

Not one in particular but heart transplant operations. It would have been around 1980 that I started being aware of the news (mum always had the radio on in the kitchen). I would have been 6ish.They were still quite rare and each one made the national news. You nearly always heard that the patient died a few days or weeks later. I remember wondering why doctors did these operations! Just looked it up and the first successful one (patient survived another 5 years) was 1979 so I guess the rate still wasn't great for a number more years, which fits with my recollection.

I also remember my mum waking me up asking if I wanted to see "the new princess" on the 10 o'clock news - it was prince Charles and Lady Diana's engagement. I remember being a bit unimpressed that she had short hair and wore a suit - not like my idea of a princess at all!

The Iranian Embassy siege.

I just about can remember the British Airways mid air collision (Flight 476) near Zagreb in 1976. Dreadful accident. 176 fatalities. May they RIP.

The murder of Jamie Bulger.

I am the same age as his killers, and my brother, coincidentally called Jamie (I know he’s James but at the time he was always reported as Jamie) was the same age as JB. I think it was the first time that I had really realised that people sometimes do horrible things just because.

There might be older ones I remember but this is definitely my most prominent memory.