What is the first news story you remember?

[Lockdowner35]

I think it was Rhys Jones murder in 2007 for me.

Death of princess Diana

1976 - Watching about strikes in the news

Rubbish piling up in the streets. No electricity in the evenings. Mum and Dad always worried.

Also Elvis dying.

Mine was the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. That was horrific.

I was only little though and obsessed with animals and I remember my first question about it to my dad was 'did any dogs die?'

I didn't really grasp what had really happened or really what death actually was until much later

Dunblane...I was around 9 mainly remember because of how my mum reacted to it. I cannot even fathom something like this happening now and having my own dc.

Also remember 1997 election quite clearly (d:ream song instantly pops in my head) and of course princess Diana (same year I think) remember being woken by my Nan and grandad in utter shock listening to it on their bedroom radio!

Princess Anne's wedding to Mark Phillips in 73, I was in Year 1 and had the day off school and remember watching it with my Mum! Also remember Nixon resigning in 74 when I was 6. And watching Abba win Eurovision the same year 😁 Some of the answers on this thread make me feel very old!

Yes actually I remember the Challenger disaster and the boys making sick 7-up jokes about it at school which was earlier than other one.

Charles and Diana engagement

Nixon resigning. My mum told me it was important to watch it.

John Lennon shot dead.

Piper Alpha. I was 9, my dad was offshore and I remember watching the news with my worried mum

The Falklands War. I think I just have been about 7.

Assassination of Kennedy in 1963. I was 3 years old, living in America and was very shaken by the open distress and shock of most of the adults around me. Affected me deeply.

The Aberfan disaster. We lived in a pit village at the time which made it seem even more scary.

Bin men strikes in the 1970s

Georgette Heyer dying. Big news in our house (I remember the older ones' reactions).

I'd have been nearly six. It was teatime.

Apart from that... I remember the Drought, and the Silver Jubilee, and the power cuts, and the firefighters' strike, but I remember them as happening rather than news.

Looking at Wikipedia, it appears to be the birth of Peter Phillips

Then Carl Bridgewater, by which time I was helping my sister on her paper round. Delivering to single houses early in the morning. Lovely. There was one particular house I took against in this context - many years later I disclosed this to my family, and oldest sister said "oh they'd have been horrified to know that - they're lovely people!"

Glasgow Airport attack, we were on our way there.

Iranian embassy siege and ira hunger strikers - 1980

The Zeebrugge ferry disaster in 1987 killing nearly two hundred people. I was eight

I remember the moon landings in 1969 , I was 5 .The Beatles splitting up ,I remember asking my mum who they were.

Diana's death
Sarah Payne
9/11

I bit spread out but they're the ones that stick in my mind from as a kid.

@Burnthurst187 My parent's best friends drowned in that disaster. So sad.

Aberfan. I was tiny at the time but I remember by osmosis, I think.

I can remember the moon landings personally though. I was dug out of bed to watch in black and white.

@toolazytothinkofausername

The death of Princess Diana on 31st August 1997.

Same. I would have been 6 and a half. I remember having a sleepover at my grandparents house. In the morning we went into their bed and ate breakfast in bed and watched the news and I remember it being on. Weird as I dont remember being in my grandparents bed, or even in their bedroom, at any other time!