What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

A newspaper article about the 10th? Anniversary of the Stardust Fire Dublin. My mom had taken me from a day out and we were waiting for our bus home. Someone left a newspaper on the seat next to me. I picked it up to pass the time. I think I was about ten and the articles stay with me to this day.

How could I have forgotten Hillsborough? I remember being really shocked at the time - about 9 I think.

I remember my grandparents talking about the miners strikes but not a specific news story.

I remember Italy winning the World Cup in 1982 when I was 3 but I’m not sure if that counts

Berlin Wall coming down

The death of Elvis

Elvis. My mum woke me up as usual for school and told me. She wasn’t a great fan but I was

Early international news story: Berlin Wall
National news story: Hillsborough (also regional)
Regional news story: Twin classmates of mine being killed in a bonfire night tragedy :(

Tiananmen Square - I remember the guy with the carrier bags standing in front of the tanks on TV.

Bosnian war mid-90s, especially the massacre in Srebrenica. Also the Rwandan massacre in the mid-90s.

Berlin Wall - end of the 80's, although that was quite vague

Stronger memories of the Jamie Bulger murder, Warrington bombing etc

Lockerby

I remember having to watch the news a lit and I remember the blackouts as a result of the 3 day week because I though it was very exciting to live by candlelight! I also remember West Ham winning against Fulham in the fa cup because me and my brother were watching it whilst my mum and her boyfriend were having a blazing row in the next room. I was about 5.

The death of Freddie Mercury. Was so sad even then as a little girl and it still makes me feel sad today sometimes.

For some reason I have clear memories of the raising of the Mary Rose ship in 1982 when I'd just turned 4

It's the first clear memory I have for something reported on the TV...I many others from the 80s but that's the first one I can definitely recall

Then the famine in Ethiopia and Band Aid when I was around 5/6 yrs old

Miners strikes

Another for the death of Princess Diana

I think Challenger, I remember my dad crying. I had an awareness of the miners strike because my family were from the north east, but we lived down south, when we went back for visits I remember people staring when they heard the southern accents, even though I must have been very young

@downstairsmixup same here, I was mid teens by then, but it sounded like an articulated lorry had crashed outside the house, and the whole house shook

Miners' Strike and Falklands War. Both had really heavy news coverage for a long time.

The death of pope john VV111
We came back from picking perriwinkles June 3 1963. I was 4
JFK nov 63 i was 5. The irish tears that night was unbelievable. I remember his visit to Dublin 1963

Hillborough disaster I was 10 we were out at the time , dad at home watching tv and my brother got run over by a very large lorry , I remember a man taking me in with his partner whilst they were waiting for ambulance police and my dad , I sat with them watching the news .

San Francisco earthquake and grace Kelly death

The death of Princess Diana.

I was young and had been to the swimming pool with my dad and it was announced on the radio on the way home.
I am not even sure why it stuck with me as I don't imagine I would have been old enough to have much interest in her at the time but I can still remember it vividly.

9/11. Left me traumatised and as a result I. Very careful about what I let my kids see on the news. It genuinely had me terrified for years.