What is the first news story you remember?

[Lockdowner35]

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

Ethiopia. I think I was 8. The IRA as I had brothers stationed in NI and that dominated age 11-14 for me. Hillsborough, BSW/CJD, AIDS,
Some of you are so young! I'm feeling twice my age today with aching hips.

I dreaded the news as a child. It made me VERY anxious. I used to go out of the room if there was talk of anyone being raped. A vicar's daughter I seem to re all was a big story in about 1985/6 and then that estate agent who was kidnapped.

So many terrible things.

Berlin Wall coming down

The fall of the Berlin wall

I remember the JFK assassination I was as school at the time. Think the news was still in black and white
then !

It must be the miners' strikes. There was always Arthur Scargill on the telly being angry and shouting. Because of this I thought he was a bad man.

Hillsborough disaster. It was horrendous. I remember the events unfolding on tv.
My mum kept telling me to leave the room.

Probably Charles and Diana, engagement then the wedding. I was 6 so very much of an age where that would have captured my attention. As for "real news" as it were... I remember the announcement of the war in Falklands and being a bit concerned that it was near by until my parents assured me that it was the other side of the world. I would be 7 by then.

The next big stories that stuck in my head, probably because I reached an age that it meant something and the horror was imaginable, and played into a huge fear of mine was the trifeca of major fires: Bradford Stadium, Piper Alpha and Kings Cross Station.

1974 IRA bombings (Birmingham & Guildford) I was 5 but vague memories of it all before then, but not a specific story.

Death of John Lennon
Di & Charles Wedding

First one that really got to me was Lockerbie

The Watergate Affair. I thought it was a Fair they were talking about - the Watergater Fair - and wanted to go!

The Falklands War is the first event I can remember taking an interest in and going out of my way to learn more about.

@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...

That was waay before early 80s.....

The Black Panther.
I was about 9 and all the details of the crimes would be on the evening news when we were having our tea. I went to bed later not realising how all the gory details were in my subconscious. I had terrible nightmares for months. I used to put my light on and read my famous five books until about 5 in the morning, when it started to get light, I'd go back to sleep.

I remember going to the shop in late summer before I started comp, I must have been going to buy smash hits or something! saw on the front page of a paper all the faces of the people who lost their lives in the Omagh bombings. I think 3 of the children were the same age as me.

JFK assassination...I was in the back room watching tv whilst teen cousins were in front room with friends having a party ..I was 5 ..remember it really well

Probably the Bradford Stadium fire in 1985 which bizarrely I was watching live (on my own) at home - bizarrely as it was the first time I had watched a football match. I was 12ish.

@SophieDahling

The Zeebrugge ferry disaster.

Ah yes, I remember that well. The news pictures of the ship on her side. I am currently working with a chap who worked on the HoFE. He almost lost his life that night and it took him many years to return to work at sea. I must keep an eye on him, as he usually struggles a little coming up to the anniversary (as we are soon)

HmmSureJan
The sinking of RFA Sir Galahad during the Falklands War.
I also worked with a chap who was a cadet officer on Galahad and his friend, a young Officer Engineer died, as he was in the Engine room at the time. The stories he told me were horrific, he made it onto a liferaft and was rescued from there.

spongebobjudgeypants could it have been Grovesnor Square riots..anti Vietnam war protests in front of US embassy ?

JFK’s assassination. I was 7, nearly 8, and saw it on the news. I went through to the kitchen to tell my parents and they didn’t believe me!

Eve van Grafhorst getting steadily weaker and then dying.

I also remember the Kegworth air disaster really clearly. I thought it was shocking but at the same time it somehow left me with the impression that this often happened on landing - probably why I started hating flying.

Showing my age...

Margaret Thatcher winning the election in 1979.

Mines is the abduction of Sarah Payne in 2000, I was 10 years old and I don't know why I just could not stop thinking about it at the time. Then I also clearly remember September 11th and was running in and out of the house looking at the news and when the first building went down I was just shocked (aged 11).

Lockerbie bombing, I was 12 and it was about 50 miles away from me.
Hadn’t been aware of news before hand, maybe it was around the time my parents got a sky dish

Probably the Yorkshire ripper

I was scared of mum going out despite us living in the south and I was only about 8

He was very much a presence