What is the first news story you remember?

[reecejackox]

I think it was either 9/11 or I remember watching on TV the funeral of the queens mother

[Matthew.]

there is probably an earlier memory but the one that springs to mind is the death of Princess Diana :bawling:

[Morgan.]

I remember 9/11 but I was born in July of that year so I'm robably confusing it with another terrorist attack because I'm sure 2.5 month old me doesn't remember.

[Mitchell]

The start of the Iraq war I think

[user104658]

I think it was either 9/11 or I remember watching on TV the funeral of the queens motherThis makes me feel so ancient; I was in my late teens when 9/11 hit, I remember getting home from school and no one was in so I was just sat watching the news alone like "Ehmagerd" when the first collapse happened...

That said, some people on here were grandparents before 9/11 so maybe not that ancient... :joker:

[Smithy]

Probably Diana’s death/funeral

[Matthew.]

It’s not the first story I remember but I was a week away from turning 15. We were at my Grandma’s house and the initial news report about Madeleine McCann came on the TV and I remember being obsessed with the story and frequently aksing my mum if she had been found and even getting a bollocking from my Business Studies teacher for using the computer to use the internet checking for updates (although tbf there wasn’t much she didn’t give me in **** for, the cow)

[Northern Monkey]

I remember seeing stuff about the minors strikes as a kid and also the Berlin Wall being knocked down and i also remember Salman Rushdie and the Satanic Verses.Also
I used to watch Spitting Image with my parents so i remember Thatcher etc.I also have memories of Mikhail Gorbachev and Neil Kinnock.

[Rob!]

there is probably an earlier memory but the one that springs to mind is the death of Princess Diana :bawling:

Exactly this.

[Kazanne]

Big news story I remember well was the abduction of James Bulger

[BigSister]

Probably the death and funeral of princess Diana although I remember euro 96 as well

[Beso]

I was 7..in 77..queens jubilee thing.

[Firewire]

Queen Mother dying

[Lostie!]

Princess Diana for me too

[Jay28jay2]

Madeline McCann when I was young which traumatised me

[Marsh.]

there is probably an earlier memory but the one that springs to mind is the death of Princess Diana :bawling:

Probably Diana’s death/funeral

Exactly this.

Probably the death and funeral of princess Diana

Princess Diana for me too

Me too ladies.

[LaLaLand]

Probably the Bosnian War, which then resulted in us doing Operation Christmas Child in infants school and sending toys/clothing/books in shoeboxes over to kids out there affected in Sarajevo. 1994/5ish?

[Oliver_W]

Dianna dying. I had a tv in my room while my sister didn't, so on weekend and holiday mornings she'd come in to watch Tweenies and stuff. One day all that was on was the news, and we were rather confused!

[Denver]

Lesbian woman throwing cat in the bin

[Eddie.]

9/11. Even though I was only 5, it was such a monumental event that I could remember it clearly...

[RileyH]

Madeline McCann when I was young which traumatised me

this

[Maru]

Diana's funeral... or the OJ Simpson car chase... whichever came first.

[hijaxers]

President Kennedy being shot .

[Kizzy]

I remember them announcing Elvis had died on the radio :(

[Crimson Dynamo]

The Man on the moon

my dad got me up and showed me and told me i would remember it for the rest of my life

and i have

it was either that or when Kirk and I got chased by a Stegosaurus on the way home from school

[user104658]

The Man in the moon

When that last meteor hit and created a pattern resembling a face :flutter:. The formation of our solar system must have been truly amazing LT, I'm jealous that you guys got to see it :(

[Mystic Mock]

For me I think it was 9/11, I remember coming home from School and remember seeing rubble on the news, and my Mom and Dad being in shock at what had happened.