What is the first news story you remember?

[Lockdowner35]

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

Hungerford massacres 1987 - don't think I was allowed to watch the news much before that age.

Thatcher's resignation.

James Bulger. I was 10 so the same age as his killers which bothered me a lot at the time.

This thread is making me feel old!

Charles and Diana's engagement, I was 7.

James buldger, that poor little boy it still upsets me now

Berlin wall falling.

Diana dying. I had stopped over at my nans house and was amazed by all the flowers

Bradford City Stadium Fire, I was 4. I remember seeing it on tv whilst we were on holiday and standing watching it. It wasn't until much much later that I realised what it was about though.

Princess Diana’s death I think

@LST

Oh, I also remember this and was at my nan’s house

Prince Charles investiture because we all squeezed into the hall to watch it on a tiny, grainy B&W tv at school and the first man on the moon. I was aware of previous Apollo missions but I have no visual memory of them.

This thread is making me feel old!

Charles and Diana's engagement, I was 7.

Ha ha!

England winning the soccer World Cup. 1966.

The Herald of Free Enterprise sinking. We were an army family stationed in Germany at the time and we took ferries quite a lot, so it really made an impression on me. I would have been 4.

[quote Timeforatincture]@Itreallyistimetochangethings I think that would be Cecil Parkinson!

First I can remember is Watergate[/quote]
Whoops! that's right - not Michael - it was Cecil - that's slander !!!!

Aberfan

Charles and Diana's wedding. Possibly more as z as thing rather than seeing it on the news on tv. We put pages from the DM with celebratory pictures on the windows and it was a big thing on our street. I do remember seeing Princess Diana in her dress though so maybe I did see it on tv. I was 5. Then Prince William being born on my birthday.

Then it was all the plane hijackings Lockerbie, Zeebrugee disaster, then Arthur Scarfgill and Thatcher and the miners and the Falklands war and the Moors murders.

In my teens it was Rachel Nickel, Jamie Bulger, Josie Russell.

The Herald of Free Enterprise sinking.

Three days later I went across to France on her sister ship the Spirit of Free Enterprise. I tried to stay outside in case it rolled over too. I lasted about five minutes. It was so cold that I went inside and had pie and chips.

Sarah Payne

Princess Diana and mother Theresa dying when I was aged 5

The Oklahoma bombing.
I was 10.
I can still remember the image of the office building on the front page of the newspaper.

Hillsborough - I think I was 9.

A girl called Mandy Buckley, aged 5 was murdered in a park in Coventry near where we used to live. Her younger sister was with her ( things were a lot more lax in the 70's) and I was the same age with a younger sister.
I couldn't stop thinking about it at the time and I never forgot her, even if I had to Google her surname. It really affected me at the time.

Sarah Payne

Dunblane

I remember having to buy batteries for our radio so we could listen to news about Three Day Weeks when there were the power cuts in the early 70s.
And the end of the Vietnam War.
I’m 53.