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.

As an adult the Queens death felt so significant even though she was 96.. just such a huge change!

As a child, Princess Diana's death and Dunblane.

As a teen, September 11th and the 7/7 bombings.

Oh and Boris announcing they were closing the schools in lockdown..I can remember even my dad saying he felt a bit scared!!

Faux concern? I sympathised about Anglo-centric media reporting and I pointed out it also applied to me and that I’m not blind to those issues either.

As an adult if you don’t want to learn more about Aberfan then that’s your right, but also you can’t expect people to dig more into the troubles than was reported on the news at the time when they were kids either can you?

I was being nice, you turned nasty quick.

Grand so

Death of John Lennon
Death of Princess Diana
9/11
Election of Barack Obama (first time) - I was in the Arctic Circle!
Brexit result
Death of HM The Queen

Diana's death ❤️
And poor little Jamie Bulger love him 💙

The passing and funeral of Vicki Phelan. Awful.

I'll never forget the Brighton bombing, because I was staying at a friend's just along the road.

We'd been out to see a late film, and had not long been in. We were just having a cuppa when we heard this massive boom, and we were "Wtf?". There was absolute silence for what seemed like ages, then we started hearing sirens. We decided to go out and see what was going on, and we could see loads of flashing blue lights further along the seafront. We were told to get back indoors by a very assertive policeman. When we heard that it was a bomb, we were very glad we hadn't walked back along the seafront, but via Seven Dials instead.

My then BF and I were on our way to Harrods to do some Christmas shopping when it was bombed. The bus stopped at Hyde Park Corner and we were all told to get off and that the bus was going no further because of "an incident", so we went and shopped in Oxford Street instead.

Princess Diana's death - I worked in a newsagents. My DM called up the stairs, in the morning, 'DH, Diana's dead!' I went to work and sold the newspapers that told the breaking news.

9/11 - I was enrolling at university. A tutor came in and said 'Watch the news when you go home!' Then they told us what it was about. One of the students was American and ran out to check her family was safe.

Corporal Killings - I remember seeing the news footage and leaving the room in tears feeling sick to my stomach.

Shankhill bombing. Another one were I was at home. Our attached neighbours had relatives involved and I heard this horrendous howl through the wall when they got the news. Only found out later that night when the news came on what had happened.

Diana - I was staying over at a hen night. Twenty still half drunk women crying.

9/11 - coming out of a car park and the attendant asked me to turn on my car radio. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

The Queen - my husband was stuck in England as all flights had been delayed. He decided the Queen had died and managed to get out of the airport and the last room in any hotel in a twenty mile radius. It was a complete dive.

Perhaps not so obvious, when the body of Joanna Yeates was found in Bristol on Christmas day 2010. She had gone missing on the 17th Dec. On Christmas day I was busy in the kitchen, looking forward to family arriving. I was so happy and sipping prosecco while I stirred the bread sauce, then the news came on the radio that her body had been found in a snow filled ditch.

My heart broke for her family. They must have been distraught since her disappearance on the 17th, and to have received that terrible news on Christmas day, I just can't imagine the pain. I think about her and her family every Christmas day.

7/7 - caught up in Croydon and had to take a colleague back to her car at Luton airport parkway, where the terrorists car was

Princess Diana's death - the night I met my husband - what we woke up to

9/11 - very new job and heard it on radio on way home

Boxing Day tsunami - my uncle was there

Elvis's death, Michael Jackson's death, Princess Diana death and 9/11

Diana's death
September 11th
The Covid lockdown announcement

The first two because they were completely unexpected. The last one because it wasn't.

Princess Diana's death, 9/11 (DH rang me from work to tell me to turn the TV on), Madeleine McCann (I had a baby at the time), the Queen dying.

Gosh, all miserable things.

I’ll never forget the disappearance of Madeleine McCann as we arrived in Praia da Luz for a week’s holiday a few hours after she disappeared. Her missing photograph was in all the shop / bar windows and we initially assumed she was a missing Portuguese child.

Also, 9/11, Princess Diana’s death and the Boxing Day tsunami.

The tsunami. I was in a hotel. Usually we'd be at home for Christmas, but my dad decided we go a hotel that year. It was a very strange atmosphere.

Thatcher resigning. Was at secondary school and vividly remember the teachers all looking jubilant.

Diana’s death. Woke up to my clock radio playing sombre music and thought it was broken. I remember it being a stifling muggy day.

9/11. Sat in my small flat watching horrific images of people jumping out of the tower windows.

7/7. At work, having come in that morning on the same number bus as the one that was blown up.

Oh, and hearing about Heath Ledger’s death on the radio. I stopped stock still between food cupboard and kitchen, clutching a jar of muesli. Knocked the wind out of me.

Aberfan has been mentioned a few times by me and others, maybe due to the age demographic I don't know

I was about the same age as the children at the time - 8 if I remember correctly.

I've never ever forgotten it and it brings me to tears every time I remember it a whole generation gone

Everything major from Elvis onwards. Gulf war 1 was pretty bad as my husbands Squadron was the first to leave the UK for the middle east, we had very little notice, just a matter of hours. We had just moved house so didn't know a soul, i had a 3 year old and a baby and my Mum had just been given 3 weeks to live. Nothing to do but get on with it.
Dunblane will never leave me, that chilled me to the core. Also the murder of little Nivruti Islania who was shot in the head by the IRA in Germany, her father was also killed.
9/11 was just heart wrenching, watching people jump from those towers was sheer hell.

I worked on a high floor of a tower in London with a excellent view of flight paths when Concorde took its last flight, and remember standing at the window with colleagues and watching it. I wouldn’t have thought I’d care much about a plane, but I found it surprisingly moving.

Sorry if it has been since, I’m using train WiFi and the refresh is fairly crap.

I burst into tears when I heard Jo Cox had died. I remember seeing a tweet saying "oh my god, Jo Cox is dead" - I think it was from a BBC journalist. I hope the Brexiteers remember she died because of the referendum.

Otherwise 9/11, death of Diana (I was in a hotel in Frankfurt at the time), Berlin Wall coming down, 7/7 attacks, and murder of Jill Dando.

On NI - I remember there being tit for tat killings every night in the early 80s. And the Docklands bombing.

Another one that I'd forgotten was the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, and the crash of the helicopter going to the Isles of Scilly.