What is the first news story you remember?

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I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

The emergence of new oral contaceptive pills...and my parents talking in semi-shocked, hushed tones about it.

As a child it made me think that babies would just arrive on their own anyway from somewhere - unless you took this new pill 😂

Just about recall Aberfan. Only because it was the school my mum had gone to as a child, and I remember her and my Grandma being very upset watching something on TV. The first news I remember actually watching was the moon landing (although I was very young). Really, whatever else happens in my lifetime, nothing will ever beat that in terms of astonishing television.

I remember watching the news that was always on in our house and seeing a hijacked plane in an airport and bodies being thrown onto the tarmac. Apparently there were lots of hijackings in the 70's but I'm not sure which one this was. My dad used to fly lots so I remember asking him loads of questions about how it happened and why would anyone want to do it as its not easy to pinch a plane. Innocence was a good thing then.

My first thought was of Diana's death, but I also have a strong memory of the Louise Woodward case.
I just read up on the details and my goodness, the American 'justice' system is a joke. So many inaccuracies in the evidence. How they can convict someone to life mostly on the basis of misunderstood terminology is beyond me.

When the Shah was ousted in Iran.

Apollo 11 moon landing

The death (heroin) of Olivia Channon ( not exactly sure this was my first news story, but my Mum sobbed )....

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final I thought you said 'news'?

I have a vague memory of sitting on my mum's knee and she was explaining that the priest holding a white hankie meant he was a brave man and was helping carry someone who was hurt.

I know now that was footage of Bloody Sunday, I think I must have seen something and been upset and then mum tried to explain it to me, I can't think why else you would allow a small child to watch that.

About the same time I remember there was a disaster at a local mine, I can remember men being pulled out and the waiting wives trying to see who it was. I think it must have been Lofthouse.

Pan am flight crash, kings cross fire and the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was born in 81.

The troubles in NI.
Most specifically the death of Bobby Sands.

Elvis’s death.

Ethiopea famine

1989, Berlin Wall coming down.

I was 6 at the time.

The disappearance of five-year-old Caroline Hogg in July 1983. Her body was found later that month. I remember my parents discussing the case in hushed voices, and rapidly turning off the news when I came into the room.

I can remember really clearly John Major replacing margaret thatcher as prime minister. I was literally 5, so I have no idea why that stands out, my parents were very anti thatcher, so I suppose they talked about it a lot. What a boring first thing to remember!!

I remember it better than the Berlin Wall coming down, even though that was the same year.

My bad, Berlin Wall was a year earlier, that probably why I don’t remember it so well! Also I think we only got a tv in early 1990

9/11 I'm 24 now and still remember the devastation on everyone's faces and all the crying. I didn't understand the extent of the event until many years later.

Hillsborough and the sea of flowers outside the ground. I knew it had been an overcrowding thing but couldn't get my head around how it could have happened as I had no idea of scale, being so young. I just thought "why didn't people move back when they saw people were squashed?".

Mrs Thatcher becoming prime minister, I was 8 and can remember my mum sitting down listening to early morning news on the radio which was unusual, I asked what she was listening too and when she told me I thought it was really amazing and exciting that a woman was prime minister, I couldn't understand why mum was upset about it ( staunch labour family)

The death of King George VI. Yes I am that old.

1981 military coup in Spain. I was 7, and my parents shushed me at newstime, they never did so it made me pay attention.

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

I was an adult but I recall the end of the News at Ten bulletin, you could just see someone creep across to the desk on his knees and hand the newsreader a slip of paper. He looked at it, seemed shock and muttered Are we sure of this? then he read it out.

Herald of Free Enterprise sank off Zeebrugge.

Michael Fish hurricane (muddied by living in Kent at the time - have fleeting memories of the hurricane itself and all the trees that had been blown over afterwards).