What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Lockerbie - I would have been 3 or 4 at the time

Famine in Ethiopia. I distinctly remember asking how to spell it (I was very young and may have missed the point slightly...)

My first was Aberfan but equally resonant and maybe 5/6 years later and I remember the pictures in the papers. The little girl running alight in Vietnam after being hit by a bomb.

Also the death of princess Diana. I was 4 and remember my mum crying at the news and not understanding why

I got a hint my Mum was very excited about a month before I was born - she was celebrating the end of WWII. Seriously, I remember James Dean being killed when I was about 10 and also the creation of ITV. Before that there was just one BBC channel watched on black and white 9 inch tv. How times change.

The Aberfan disaster. I was nine and we had only recently got a television.

Leah Betts death.
I was in secondary school- our PSE (personal & social education) teacher wheeled in the giant tv & made us watch the news. It scared the shit out of me!

@IHaveBrilloHair

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

Ha. Exactly the same.

Followed by Zeebrugge

And then the Berlin Wall. I remember my English teacher telling us we were living through really important times, and having only the faintest idea why. To me, it's still one of the most significant and moving events that has happened in my life time.

The case of lyndy chamberlain and her baby that was taken by a dingo. I think the trial rather than the actual event. And Chernobyl, they were both at the same kind of time and they’re linked in my mind.

Charles and Diana's wedding day. I wasn't quite four years old.

First test tube (IVF) baby in 1978.

I said zeebrugge but just remembered something earlier. - the horsenapping of Shergar. I spent many years after drawing pictures of horses with a teardrop!! Not sure if that made the news in the UK but was big news in Ireland

9/11

Assassination of JFK . I couldn't understand why my Nan was crying watching the television news.

Princess Anne's wedding. The Apollo space missions.

The death of Princess Diana , I was 5 and I just remember my mum lying on the sofa crying for days

@BritWifeinUSA

Prince Charles and Princess Diana getting engaged.

I vaguely recall this, but remember the wedding more clearly. (I was born late-76.)

John Major becoming prime minister. I was 4 and of course didn't understand anything but remember it being on the news. I think that was the earliest, although for something I understood (somewhat) it was poor James Bulger when I was seven.

The death of King George 6th.

Zebrugee for me too. I was 10 at the time.

Munich Olympics 1972. I loved Mark Spitz and Olga Korbut. My dad always had sport on tv. My sister and I had our own Olympic swimming events in our paddling pool, complete with medal ceremony. I was 4 years old.

The Aberfan disaster. I was six, and hadn’t seen adults cry before. The bleakness of the images upset me, I found it extremely unsettling. I suppose I hadn’t realised until then that children could die.

I also remember Winston Churchill’s funeral the year before.

Dunblane

John Major getting an egg thrown at him.

@pinkpeoniesplease

Leah Betts dying from (I think?) an ecstasy pill.

Princess Diana's death.

She didn't die from the ecstasy itself, but because she drank too much water too quickly after taking it. She wouldn't have died if she hadn't taken it, but it wasn't the drug which directly killed her.