What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

The moon landing! Some of you are so young

Brighton hotel bombing

The moon landing

Charles and Di's wedding.
I remember my Mum saying the dress looked like it needed ironing!

JFK for me too, I was in the back garden of my grandmas house playing with my little sister and heard my dad and grandma talking about it. Can’t remember much news after that until the men walked on the moon!

The death of King George V1. I'm old.

Margate Pier.
It had been irreparably damaged by a storm so it had to be destroyed, and council kept trying to blow it up, but it wouldn’t come down. Every day on John Craven’s Newsround they updated us on the pier that just wouldn’t collapse!

I vividly remember sitting down to watch the Grand National with my mum and then suddenly it was cancelled because of a bomb scare. Must have been around 1996/97. I couldn't understand why all the ladies in the fancy hats were crying and my mum told me they were sad because they had to be seperated from their horses!

slag is the stuff dug out of a coal mine that is not coal. there are slag heaps all over mining areas.

I remember the powercuts in the early seventies.

The first news story was at infant school and the Yorkshire ripper I think.

Berlin Wall coming down

James Bulger. I was really little but I remember those awful pictures on the front of the paper. It has stayed with me for all these years, traumatising.

Gulf war kicking off and my nana convinced it was the start of ww3

The Great Train Robbery.

The death of John Lennon.

Aberfan.

Edwina Currie and the salmonella in eggs and the murder of James Bulger. They must have been around when I was 8 and 10.

@peakygal

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

I was also 8 I posted up thread but you articulated it much better than me

Moon landing

Jamie Bulger. Remember watching it on the tv and I was the same age as the murderers, I just couldn't believe someone my age would do such a thing. I still think about it alot.

Seeing Bosnia on the news

Actually Zeebrugge was before Berlin Wall and I remember that well as we always went by ferry on holiday and it terrified me.

The Challenger, and Zeebrugge. Both gave me nightmares.

Genette Tate going missing

Death of Elvis - I was 7 and remember we'd just come home from holiday & paper was lying in the hall (dm must have ordered delivery to restart) with the headline. I cried, but I don't really know why!

The genocide in Rwanda and the bombs dropping on Sarajevo