What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

No one ever talks about billie jo Jenkins, does anyone remember this?

Black panther (Donald Nielsen). No idea why, I must have had a sense of the macabre. I would have been around 7 or 8.

I remember the 3 day week and power cuts of the early 70's but actual news, I remember the newspaper headline 'Phew, wot a scorcher!' during the 1976 heatwave.

I also remember 'The King is dead' when Elvis died in 1977 but the news items that stuck with me most was the reports about the Vietnamese Boat people after the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, which seemed to peak in the late 70's.

Hillsborough, I can remember it being on the news and my mum and auntie crying really vividly. I was 6.

OJ simpson

Dunblane- I remember the adults talking about it in hushed whispers and being so upset but trying not to cry about it. I didn’t really understand but knew it was bad.

As an adult it makes me tear up - there’s something so evil about taking the lives of little ones. And my heart breaks for the families that went through that

Baby jessica

When I was about 8 years old, there was a terrible crime committed in a children's ward in our local hospital. I remember seeing the story on the front of all the papers.

What was it?

I was 6

I think it was probably Elvis’ death in 77. We were on holiday in a caravan somewhere. I was 6 & my older sisters were really upset. They kept talking about how “the King is dead” which confused me greatly as I knew it was QEII Silver Jubilee that year too (I played the Queen in our school celebration 🤷‍♀️👸😂)

So many memories shared on here sparking my own. Does anyone remember Sputnik? And how there was a great fear that it would crash into earth?

Reading through some of the responses has made me feel old! For those saying 9/11... I was 30 & had just put DS down for his post-lunch nap. Initially I was annoyed because I had wanted to watch Neighbours & couldn’t understand why the news was still on. Literally 2 minutes later the second tower was hit & I felt terrified & wondering if WW3 was starting.

The humanitarian crisis in Cambodia. I was 7 and remember being really worried about it.

Piper Alpha disaster, and I know we were on holiday in Devon at the time.

Zeebruge ferry disaster.

Death of princess Diana age 5

@LabradorGalore Dunblane was shocking. My colleague & I always had the radio on when our consultant was away from the office. I vividly remember immediately stopping what I was doing & looking at my friend who was in equal amounts of shock. We both started crying. It was beyond awful.

Georgette Heyer's death (I was five, other people in the house exclaimed over it, it was on the radio at tea-time)

I remember some news stories from the election when Margaret Thatcher became PM. I remember being very confused, because they were talking about constituencies and percentage swings for either party to get a majority, but somehow I thought that the party that raised the most money won. Not sure how I got that idea, but I was pretty young at the time.

9/11. I was 5 years old.

John Lennon being shot - me too. I have quite a vivid memory of them re-releasing Imagine afterwards and that incredible video of him and Yoko in the white room with the white piano, and of course heartbreakingly beautiful song.

I also remember the Falklands war, reports on battles, the General Belgrano being sunk, etc.

Thatcher leaving Downing Street and Roald Dahl dying. Seems an odd combo at first glance, but he died the day after she got the boot, so that must be why they’re tied up in my brain together- presumably I saw it on the one news programme! I was 7.

I thought Zeebruge but when I checked dates actually Heysel was the first one aged 6. My dad (Liverpool supporter) had been promising to take me to a match which I was excited about but after Heysel I wouldn’t go

Sophie Hook.

It was the first time I realised something bad could happen to a child- I was about 5 or 6 I think.

I can remember lots on the news about Idi Amin in the early 70s, but at that time I didn't really know what the story was because I was only about 4 or 5.

Yes Leah Betts - I was so shocked and Princess Diana's death.

actually it was Dunblane