What are the news story’s you will never forget where you were at the time.

[Blueyparentsmychild]

just that really,

mine will always be 7/7 - was caught up in it
grenfell tower - lived locally
9/11
Manchester bombing
probably the queens death to.

Barcelona Olympics
Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
Princess Diana's death
9/11
Concorde decommissioning
Grenfell

Well yes and with me not having lived there, those were the things the media told me about, I guess the less big things were more prevalent for people living there. I don’t know the average age here, but no one has mentioned Aberfan that I have seen (I’m Welsh, but wasn’t born then). And that was fucking horrific too.

I remember my brother coming into my room and saying Diana was dead and was confused as I didn’t know anyone called Diana until I realised It was Princess Diana

9/11. We were in Mexico on our honeymoon and due to fly back home. We hadn’t seen any news so went to reception to check it it to be told that all flights were cancelled. I remember checking back into our room and watching the news for hours. We eventually flew home the following day

The Soham murders were absolutely horrendous and unthinkable- the school caretaker was always a trusted and liked dependable member of staff/piller of the community of sort of person so that shook me too.

Mine are
Potters Bar train crash
Hatfield train crash
9/11
Japan tsunami

I'm ROI, we used to watch RTE and UTV, we heard all about each and every horrible shooting and knee capping every night. We knew about the landslide (😞) too.

Dunblane.

I was working on a daily regional newspaper and in the newsroom at the time.

The energy and way the place came to life to mobilize the coverage of the story was a sight to behold. I was sent out onto the streets to get local kids to light candles in the cathedral.

It was a real eye opener in terms of how shocking and sad news is dealt with in such a matter of fact way and it really put me off a career as a journalist.

Aberfan was 58 years ago so you'd have to be in your 60s to remember it which is probably why it hasn't been mentioned more than a couple of times. Watching it on The Crown was upsetting enough, and whenI spoke to Mum about it (she was 20 when it happened) she said it was one of the worst things she ever saw on the news.

I remember where I was for lots of the events already mentioned but the one that had the biggest impact was the Soham murders. It was the school holidays and I was doing some ironing before the kids got up, switched on the TV only to see the face of my DD's friend and ex team mate, and my son's classmates on the screen, then hearing that the girls were missing. The police helicopter had been very active the evening before with lots of flying over our house as we lived on the route to one of the girls aunt's and there was a theory that they'd tried to walk across the fields to her house so the chopper was up, looking. Those days are forever etched in our memories.

I was at work. A colleague had been out at a meeting, heard it in the car on the way back and came in and told us about it.

I was quite upset. I think he would have been a very good PM.

My best friend is from Ballymun, living in Belfast and a big part of the PWP.

Sounds like this thread is stirring stuff up for you. I hope you’re ok. But don’t forget this is a generic thread of people’s remembrances, it doesn’t mean any is more or less important.

And it was not remotely a landslide. It was a colliery spoil tip collapse, one is natural and the other is manmade. Just to be very accurate. Which it is very important to be because the bloody NCB was not.

John Lennon shot
9/11
Diana death
Tsunami
Queen death (not that surprising as just recently)
7/7
OJ Simpson verdict

It's still going on and probably always will although to a far lesser extent. It is deliberately not covered in the news in england/Scotland and Wales so we are somewhat oblivious to it now. I have a great grandad who was pivotel in the IRA movement sadly.

Usual ones already mentioned but i’ll add:

The Alton Towers Smiler accident - i was on holiday.

Oh and Lockerbie

Tbf, I was a very young child, it was likely said to me that it was a landslide as that would have been more understandable than 'colliery collapse'. And I'm fine thanks, you can hang on to your faux concern.

I think it's because there were so many awful events in NI that they don't really stand out so much in people's memories.

I have a very clear memory of the Bloody Sunday shootings, mainly because I can remember my father going "The bastards, the bastards" when it came on the news. Omagh stands out because I was much older, and because I was in a pub having a drink with a friend who came from Omagh. The landlady came over and told us, and he rushed home to phone his family.

Herald of Free Enterprise.
Lockerbie.
Hillsborough, was watching on TV.
Dunblane.
Omagh bombing.
9/11 (I was actually in NY at the time, it was chaos)
Diana’s death.

Princess Diana’s death - I was up early to get a flight so saw all the early headlines that had gone out before the news of her death - some speaking about her quite disparagingly as they had been in her final months, before the sudden about turn following her death.

9/11 - it was during the only period of my life I worked in a very high rise building and we were all sent home in case the same thing happened in London

7/7 - I was also caught up in it

Hillsborough i also remember what I was doing although what I was doing wasn’t very interesting

The 1997 Labour landslide. I campaigned bloody hard for that win in an important marginal seat and after the exit poll dropped, we uncorked the champagne then partied until dawn. One of the best nights of my life.

Diana's death
9-11

😞😞😞

The death of Kennedy - I was about 6/7 and at my grandmas. I heard the grown ups talking about it as they’d heard it on the radio

England winning the World Cup in 1966. We had our first tv for the event. My dad was so excited he fell off his chair, mum had gone out in a huff because football was boring.

The first man on the moon

The Hungerford massacre - somewhere where we had often gone on a picnic to

The Birmingham pub bombings - Shortly after I went to university in Birmingham and my parents were terrified

The Dunblane murders - I was an infant teacher, all of the outside door handles in schools were removed

Death of Diana - my young children were watching cartoons downstairs while I was having a lie in and they came upstairs to tell me

9/11 - At school, we watched it at break time on the big tv in the staffroom

I’m obviously a lot older than most of you!

Forgot the Kings Cross fire - a couple of weeks after I changed trains there with my young children to visit grandparents and the smell was horrible

Aberfan was before my time but it's a news story that chills me and has me in tears. I can't even imagine how awful it was for the victims and their families and the community.