What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Me too @bluefargo

Positive - Charles and Diana’s wedding (well it was then)
Negative - IRA bombings

The death of Diana - I was 10.

The murder of James Bulger.
I would have been 11. My little brother was 2.

My mum sitting me down to tell me about Hillsborough, I was about 10 I think.

Miners strikes

Charles and Diana's engagement. Then following the wedding, the Falklands war. Not really news but l remember the Moscow Olympics and Alan Wells and Steve Ovett winning golds (not Seb Coe strangely).

1995 Sophie Hook being taken from a tent in her uncles garden. I remember being at my nans for the summer holidays and hearing it on the 9 o clock news

@LomasLongstrider same here. I was 7 and i remember my dm telling me how important it was not to go anywhere with strangers. Poor girl.

Falklands war and miners strikes

The fire in kings cross station

Chernobyl I think, I thought it was Zeebrugge but I googled at that was later

Zeebrugee I've never forgotten the images.

Death of Princess Diana, I remember the footage of all the flowers that were laid for her in London.

The Young girls holly and Jessica who went missing and caretaker murdered them. I can't even remember the year but I must have been about 11

Also Zeebrugge. I remember a news item about it interrupting usual programmes. We might have been watching New Faces or something similar? I was 7.

Also the Iranian embassy siege for me.

I remember watching the soldiers dressed completely in black and wearing black balaclavas storming the embassy and being terrified- I thought a war was starting! I was about 4 or 5

Moon landing.

9/11

The power cuts of the mid 70's. The big one was watching Nixon's resignation speech in black and white on the tiny TV in the caravan when we were on holiday.

Falklands invasion, I must have been about 10. Obviously I didn't fully understand it but I was aware of the nuclear threat (in general I mean, not specific to Argentina) and I was terrified. I remember walking back from the newsagent a bit bewildered and wondering if we were all going to die.

And the murders of poor Caroline Hogg and Susan Maxwell I think there were more victims too of was it Robert Black? Awful

The Hillsborough disaster

I watched Princess Anne marry Mark Phillips

I think it was the famine in Ethiopia. I feel like I remember the Falklands War and the miners, but I might be just be remembering seeing stories on documentaries etc. But definitely remember the images from Ethiopia, which would have been 1984 I think, so I was nine.
Also very clearly remember the Battle of Wapping, Chernobyl and the space shuttle exploding (the first one) but think that was later.