What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Princess Diana

Piper Alpha then Lockerbie.

Most replies make me feel ancient!
I've just googled a few things to check dates - the earliest seems to be Winston Churchill's death & funeral - I'd have been three,
My mun was angry at the state funeral, as she regarded him a warmonger; I think it sticks in my mind because she was so vociferous about it.

Aberfan. I was 5 and had been at infant school a matter of weeks. I remember coming in the house and seeing my.mum crying as she watched the news.

The A6 murder/rape. I was very young but remember asking my mum what “rape” meant - her embarrassment is what I remember most.

Elvis dying

@EdinaMonsoon

It’s weird reading your memory of 911 because mine was exactly the same (although I was 17 at the time). Came home from sixth form after lunch, put the TV to catch neighbours and puzzled when it was still the news and then watched the second plane hit. And no one I’ve spoken to has the same recollection so I’ve always wondered whether I’d imagined watching on the news as it hit in real time, but clearly not!

9/11 or Holly and Jessica. I remember both vividly and being young.

Watching the SAS storm the Iranian Embassy while eat our Sunday dinner (it was lunch time)

@goose1964

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.

It's in Merthyr.

Mine is The Berlin Wall. When it fell, not when they built it.

@Covert20 I saw it in real time on the news too. Completely surreal. I was just about to go to uni and I was driving home with a friend when we heard the first plane had crashed in to the tower. I remember saying, well that was careless how did they not see it? Then mum had the news on when we got in and we saw the second plane hit.

Lockerbie

I think it was Telstar, launched in 1962, and the instrumental Telstar by the Tornados, was constantly on the radio.

President Carter winning us presidency.

First one I remember witnessing first hand (hearing it on the radio) was Princess Diana’s death.

However, I remember the Manchester IRA bomb at the Arndale centre. I didn’t watch the news or hear it on the radio but I remember picking up on a change in everyone. I knew something was going on but I couldn’t say what it was at that time. I remember my mum being really shaken by it and really struggling emotionally.

Hearing about strikes on John Craven's Newsround, maybe 1975? I can remember my mum rushing to get tea on the table before there was a power cut. Hearing about the 3 Day Week but I had no understanding of it.
Later was Cambodia with footage of people starving, I've never forgotten it. I remember Blue Peter doing an appeal & raising money with Bring n Buy sales.

Reading/seeing something in the newspaper about the election (John Major 1992) but didn't understand what it all meant.

Vaguely remember Newsround reports about war in Bosnia. That ended when I was 7 so I must have been pretty young! I wonder why I was watching Newsround so young.

Yes, Princess Diana was probably the earliest one I remember understanding what had actually happened/remember my mum's reaction to.

Windsor Castle fire

Caroline Hogg going missing from near where I live. I was the same age - about 5. I remember being a bit scared that something bad could happen to little girls, probably the first time I realised that the “bad men” parents/teachers told us about weren’t just a story.

Abduction and murder of a local boy in the mid 80s - I was too young to really understand, but my parents knew the family.

Two things really,

Fall of the Berlin wall, though I didn't fully understand it.

Channel Tunnel being built. I was fascinated as a kid, that footage of the little flags being passed through the hole, when the French and British met. I think it made me get into geology/geography.

The Sharpeville Massacre, mainly because my dad was so bloody angry. I was 4, I think.

@Wowcherarestalkingme

So surreal!

97 election

The moon landings