What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Images of helicopters in black & white flying over palm trees. Vietnam.

The Fox

www.bedfordshire.police.uk/news-and-appeals/manhunt-fox-anniversary-feb2019

We were on holiday and I remember seeing the news posters outside the village shop advising of the man hunt and my Dad giving us a talking to about being careful and not talking to strangers etc

Labour coming into power in 1997

I had to check whether it was Piper Alpha or Lockerbie. Piper Alpha was first, i would have been 6.

Not one specific story, but 'the troubles' in NI (Background to my childhood in the 70's)

Princess Anne's wedding
Elvis dying.
And obscurely I remember reading about a band called the Miami Show Band being blown up.

Off the Google when these happened.

Jfk assassination

Moon landing...I was about 6,

When Geri left the spice girls 💔

Moon landing. My dad got me up on the night to watch it so I could tell future mumsnetters that I remembered it

My earliest news memories are Fergie and Andrew getting married (I remember thinking she was so beautiful and him so handsome, eeek!), Zebrugge (the image of the red ferry on its side), Lockerbie, the Marchioness disaster and Hillsborough.

I feel like the all happened at the same time, but Google tells me they were a few years apart.

This thread is making me feel very old. A very resonant event was the day Margaret Thatcher resigned. I heard it on the Tube (of all places - it was announced). Later walked along the Mall and watched the changing of the Guard and thought, well the world goes on. Met my DH for the first time that night.

Don't know if it's news but we watched the wedding of Fergie and Prince Andrew at primary school

Dunblane

@NickMarlow

John Major replacing Margaret Thatcher as PM.

And the Gulf War. Mainly because I had no idea where it was and genuinely thought there would be a war in my town.

Yup. Are you 37?

Poor James Bulger. I was 8 and I remember it so clearly and even at that age knowing how completely horrendous the whole situation was

Lockerbie bombing. I was just turned 4, and worried that planes would fall oit of the sky on us.

Lockerbie

Aeroplane crashing near East Mids and landing on the motorway verge.

Aberfan, which is odd because I was very young at the time.I think it's because it was about children. For those of you too young Aberfan is a mining village in the Rhondda Valley. There was a slag heap (huge pile of crap)dumped on top of a natural spring. Eventually the bottom layer collapsed and the rest was washed into the town covering the local primary school. 144 people were killed mostly children. I was only 2 and a half when it happened.

My DB and I overheard something on the radio that made us scared there was going to be another world war; I realised later that it was about the Cuban missile crisis, 1962. But I was 8 then, so I must have been aware of news stories before that. Perhaps Pope Pius XII dying, we were Catholics.

I remember Rwanda being all over the news when I was about 4 or 5. Just had to Google it as I never knew why, apparently there was a civil war and mass genocide

Zeebrugge again, we lived in Germany and regularly used North Sea ferries. I'd have been about 10

Fred & Rose West

Bradford fire. I also remember the Marchioness and Zeebrugge disasters, and Hillsborough, i watched the news a lot as a child.