What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Chernobyl - I would have been almost 4.

The Falklands War - don't remember which exact headlines but remember pictures of troops/boats/planes etc on the news...

I remember hearing a lot about Bosnia, and Ethiopia.

The Suez crisis........... yes I'm that old!

Moon landing. And yes I do believe it actually happened!

Mine was also Dunblane. I remember the newspaper being left on the piano stool, and the front cover had the class photo of the children and teacher that had been killed. I remember looking at those children, who looked just like my own class mates, and feeling desperately sorry for their families and their community.

The Dunblane shooting. I remember the morning news being on the TV in the kitchen I was 13

Elvis dying.

I was the same age as the children from the Dunblane tragedy, but I don’t remember it from the time. I do remember learning about it a few years later.

The first big news story that I definitely remember is the death of Princess Diana. I remember coming downstairs in the morning, and my mum was crying in her dressing gown watching the news.

Charles and Diana’s engagement. I was absolutely mesmerised by their wedding (I was 6 at the time, in my defence).

Like others, I also remember the constant backdrop of IRA incidents and the fear, as a child, when my mother used to take me shopping on Oxford Street.

Challenger disaster and Zeebrugger .

James Bulger
The war in Yugoslavia

The Falklands war, I was 4.

Moon landing

3 items of news that I still clearly remember hearing when I was young.
1972 Dublin bombing, a neighbor was killed. I heard in school.
1977 - Elvis died. I heard at choir, teacher was crying.
1979 - Lord Mountbatten bombing, my Mom was so shocked that could happen in Ireland.

I had to look up the dates, but I can still remember hearing all three pieces of news and tell you exactly where I was at the time and how I heard this news.

But older than most on here hence username but Aberfan disaster.

Lockerbie bombing.

The electricity blackouts in the early seventies. Going up to bed as a very young child with a wee Willie style candle to light the way

Dunblane

Princess Diana dying, although I don't remember the actual news, just my parents' and grandparents' reactions to it.

John Major becoming Prime Minister.

And the Gulf War - I was in infant school and knew it was about to start, but had no idea where the Gulf was and thought there would be a war where I lived.

IRA London bombings.

7/7 bombings

Tony Blair becoming PM

The police brutality at the miners strikes. I was about 4/5 at the time and it totally shocked me and inspired an inherent mistrust of the state which has stayed with me throughout my life.