Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊

[News] What was the first news story you remember?







Happy Exile

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Apr 19, 2018
2,119
Local - probably when my school made the local news after a teacher attacked a pupil

National - Charles and Diana's wedding

International - Falklands, specifically the sinking of the Belgrano is really strong in my memory.
 




Jim D

Well-known member
Jul 23, 2003
5,267
Worthing
Local - robbery and murder at Lloyds bank Durrington 1960. Apparently the robbers (later caught and one hanged) drove away close to our house.
National - General Election 1964 - I was allowed to stay up late to see the results.
International - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 - remember discussing with mates where we could shelter if we were attacked - under the kitchen table or in the coal shed were best suggestions.
 


Boys 9d

Well-known member
Jan 3, 2012
1,849
Lancing
Local: Southdown bus blown from the Toll Bridge into the River Adur 1/1 49
National: Death of King George VI 1952
International: Sinking of the Flying Enterprise also 1952
 




Herr Tubthumper

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
62,458
The Fatherland
that live Iranian hostage thing which interrupted the tv schedules was quite gripping. This is the oldest I can currently remember.
 


Wardy's twin

Well-known member
Oct 21, 2014
8,815
Keith Lyons murder as it happened literally down the road. Asssination of JFK... playing on my front carpet and remembering the nose of my large family stop and the sombre tone that took over.
 


happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
8,152
Eastbourne
Local: Maria Colwell murder
National/international : SR-71 flying from New York to London in under 2 hours
International/interstellar : The Apollo moon landings
 




Silverhatch

Well-known member
Feb 23, 2009
4,658
Preston Park
Local - Abba winning Eurovision @ the Dome
National - Jim Clark (Racing Driver) killed at Hockenheim
International - Neil, Buzz & Mike on (or near) the Moon
 


Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,813
Uffern
.
Born in 1955 so I'm going through google to see what happened each year.
Don't remember JFK in 1963

You're older than I am - how on earth can you not remember that? It dominated the news for days and adults seemed to talk about little else. KIds' TV shows were cancelled - Dr Who was repeated because it was feared so many people had missed it.

World Cup in '66 but not winning it.

You've got the wrong user name :smile:
 


Trufflehound

Re-enfranchised
Aug 5, 2003
14,123
The democratic and free EU
International - Vietnam war on the TV all the time in late 60s, that or Mexico Olympics in 68
National - Torre Canyon oil tanker disaster, 67
Local - When the handbrake failed on an unmanned parked car and it ran down a bank and across a packed playground at my primary school (Westdene), running over and injuring several young kids - sometime late 60s(?). Nobody killed mercifully, but it was gruesome enough to make the national TV news that night.
 
Last edited:




Not Andy Naylor

Well-known member
Dec 12, 2007
8,975
Seven Dials
Local - Brighton's last trolleybus (1961?)

National - 1964 general election

International - Kennedy assassination.1963
 


Uh_huh_him

Well-known member
Sep 28, 2011
12,022
Local - Drought reporting and Dutch Elm disease - 76
National - Princess Anne & Cpt Mark Phillips wedding - 73
International - Elvis Death - 77
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
55,711
Faversham
Local (Sussex) - Mods and Rockers 1964
National - The big freeze of 62-3
International - Yuri Gagarin in space 1961
 
Last edited:




Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Suez as my Dad was there.
Buddy Holly killed

Local news not so much until the 60s I suppose the winter of 62/63 affected me most
 




BrianB

Sleepy Mid Sussex
Nov 14, 2020
476
The Beatles arriving in America .
As a kid I hadn't realised that it snows there as well....
No idea why I've always remembered that either .
 






Skuller

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jun 3, 2017
335
I used to pick-up international news from the Express (when it was a newspaper) to a greater extent than my parents realised. At the age of 9 I was well-up with the crisis in the Congo, but the Cuban missile crisis at about the same time was obviously something in a different league. The paper would have headlines like “Is this the end of the world?” and I’d be quite scared.

I remember the Profumo affair, but knew that there was something about it I didn’t quite understand. I loved the Giles cartoon in the Express except when it covered Profumo and I knew I wouldn’t get it.

Locally, it was being sent home from primary school because of the news that the sea-wall at Seaford had been breached yet again.
 


PILTDOWN MAN

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 15, 2004
19,473
Hurst Green
Three day week 1974
Wearing our coats in school classroom as no heating

Elvis’s last trip to the loo
 


Albion and Premier League latest from Sky Sports


Top
Link Here