What is the first news story you remember?

[Lockdowner35]

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

Economic crisis in 2007. I'm Spanish and it was a huge blow for the country. The news were talking about it day and night. Every lunch break, in a very matter-of-fact way, me and my primary school classmates would discuss whose parent had been made redundant this week. It seemed so normal... Looking back now I see how worrying those years must have been for all the adults.

Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, which I think was also 2007.

The spaghetti trees April Fool news report! Our teacher actually went to the trouble of wheeling a tv into the classroom to show us that and to see who swallowed it
That must haven been very early 1980s...

Holly and Jessica was the first I remember watching on the news. I didn't have a TV growing up and just happened to see this when in a hotel. I was 12. I remember 9/11 though, obviously, and being told about princess Diana, but didn't hear about them through the media.

@Fruitflylady

The spaghetti trees April Fool news report! Our teacher actually went to the trouble of wheeling a tv into the classroom to show us that and to see who swallowed it That must haven been very early 1980s...

The spaghetti harvest hoax was 1957, my mum remembers watching it with her parents as a teenager and her mum going ‘well I never!’

One of the IRA bombings in London, I think it was in a bin? I was due to go on a brownie trip to the imperial war museum and was terrified I’d get bombed. Must have been late ‘80s?

Vietnam war
The Beatles splitting up
Nixon /watergate

The Yorkshire Ripper hunt. I was ten years old at the time. We lived about 250 miles away but I remember a single mum with two children moved from there to our small town, as she was so worried.

Elvis dying - i was 6.

The assassination of JFK, I was 10.

The famine in Ethiopia was the first one i remember. Specifically I can remember asking my mum why they had big tummies sticking out and flies buzzing round them and my mum cried trying to explain. I was little, maybe 5.

Piper Alpha the oil rig disaster. I had friends dads that worked off shore so that made a big impact in our local community

Lockerbie, I would have been 6.

I'm not sure which was the first because I don't know the dates they occurred, but the ones that stick in my mind...

Kings cross fire

Train crash at West Ealing because someone put something on the tracks

Rachel Nikell

Jamie Bulger

Fred & Rose West

Leah Betts dying from taking ecstasy

I watched the Bradford City Stadium Fire unfold on the TV in 1985, was very young. Horrific

9/11

Louise Brown being born. First ‘test tube baby’

The moon landing ! Remember watching it on tv (in the states) with family. I think I can remember the excitement but that’s probably not memory but imagination.
Wish I had been older and had clear memories of what it all meant etc.

I remember the reports of Jamie Bulger. I was 9 years old.

Bradford fire

Princess Diana’s death I didn’t really understand the significance other than the fact she was a princess who did kind things.

The First Iraq war, American bombers has accidentally killed civilians sheltering in a hospital. I remember being shocked and upset.

Dunblane. Diana. Tony Blair as PM. I was 9/10 at the time.

Probably the Soham murders. I'm 34

The Zebrugge ferry disaster.

Either James Bulger or Fred West, whichever came first. Remember my mum crying at both of them.