What is the first news story you remember?

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

Princess Diana's death. It was around 6am and my eldest sister had gone downstairs to watch cartoons and she came running upstairs and woke everyone up by shouting "mum! Princess Diana is dead!!!!"

I would've been 7

The Falklands war.

Freddy Mercury's death :-(

Ethipian Famine (1984) Townsand Torrison boat disaster. (Hereld free enterprise?)

Charles and Diana’s wedding day

The Kings Cross fire in 1987. It really frightened me. I would lie in bed worrying about a fire starting in my house.

The fall of the Berlin wall

The famine in Biafra sometime in the sixties.

Diana's death

Elvis dying. I was six.

The wedding of Charles and Diana. I was 5 and had a ladybird book about her with a blue cover. It had his family tree on the first two pages of the book and hers in the last 2 pages. I remember it so clearly. Suspect it is still in my parents house somewhere!

Iranian embassy siege

Lockerbie airplane bomb 1988

Remember lots of images from the early 80s but they are all jumbled up. Perhaps the first "firm" memory was watching Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson getting married. I was eight.

The Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. I would have been six years old. I grew up in Canada during the Cold War. We had nuclear attack drills in school and learned a song called "Duck and Cover." We were supposed to go under our desks. Like that would have helped.

I remember the terrible sense of fear most of all, and then the wonderful relief when it was over. JFK became a kind of hero to us.

diefenbunker.ca/duckandcover/

Ginette Tate and the Black Panther. Both are my earliest memories of big news stories.

Rwandan genocide. I was about 5?

Charing Cross underground fire - I've just looked up the date, I was 5

I mean Kings Cross

Lockerbie air disaster

Definitely Princess Diana's death, I was quite young but my mum liked her and used to talk about her a fair bit. Like a PP I remember she got me out of bed to tell me!

Dunblane.

I guess the first really 'impactful' stories for me were the Lebanese Civil War, which was in the background of my childhood, but more acutely, John Lennon's assassination and Ronald Reagan's inauguration. I remember being gathered into the school 'auditorium'- silly American way of saying school hall- to watch it. AIDS and the Challenger disaster were also huge. I remember Eric Adler running across the school playground, full of fear, telling us about AIDS like some town cryer.

LoveFall I was born in '72 in California. Duck and cover was still a big part of my childhood, as was the memory of the Cuban Missile Crisis. That was a real 'moment'... a turn of the screw. The tension of that crisis really stayed with us for a long time.

Falkland's War.

Next would be the miners strike.