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



Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
Local - my youngest brother winning a best baby competition, with his picture in the Mid Sussex Times (does that count as "news"?), so must have been around 1967.

National - might have been Torrey Canyon sinking in 1967. I also remember the tar on the beaches in Devon and Cornwall when we went on holidays.

International - Apollo 8 in 1968.
 




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Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,495
Worthing
Churchill’s funeral and Pathe news at the cinema banging on about some football match in 66.
 


Lindfield by the Pond

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Jan 10, 2009
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Lindfield (near the pond)
Local - can’t be sure, but probably train crash at Balcombe as the whole village talked about it for years afterwards
National - Margret Thatcher election
International- Falklands War
 


Brightonfan1983

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Jul 5, 2003
4,863
UK
This thread has tickled me. Especially the local stuff which shows just how Local things used to be. I started school in 1980 and news then local to anywhere outside of about a 5, 6 mile radius simply didn't register.

- My local was Ollie Reed marrying a girl from the village. He did a lot of boozy lawnmower races I seem to remember which kept making it into the church magazine, of all things.
- National was the Falklands which seemed to foreshadow half a decade of worrying about war in general, from commandos wearing berets and camouflage to the thermo-nuclear kind.
- International was John Lennon's death. I nor my parents nor my friends were ever into the Beatles, but for some reason I can recall everything about the moment I heard.
 








Happy Exile

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Apr 19, 2018
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Which despite being serious and definitely not funny does have me smiling and noting 'ah happy dayz'.

What's particularly early-1980s-Catholic-school-discipline about that incident is that the reason it made the news wasn't because of the assault itself, but because the boy's Mum kicked up a fuss about how neither the police nor the school authorities were interested in the fact her 9 year old son had been smashed about by an adult with a hockey stick. That wasn't even the worst thing that happened there either!
 






poidy

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Aug 3, 2009
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Graham ‘Turnip’ Taylor (god rest his soul) getting absolute pelters in the Sun newspaper after every international break.


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