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

[Robinjakarta]

Local: a murder by the Orion cinema, Hassocks mid-50s?
National: Anthony Eden being Prime Minister (unfortunately).
International: World Cup 1958 in Sweden and Brazil with Pele, Didi, Vava and more.

 

[Notters]

Great Storm of '87 all round, for me.

 

[The Rattler]

Seems until the age of 8 I was blissfully in my own little world playing "war" around The Good Shepherd Church grounds, Dyke Road Park and along Reigate Road with my mates.

I have a useless memory for news, but…

share very fond memories of those locations - I lived in Reigate Road. Much of my early life spent bombing round the church on various dodgy bikes. Remember the church hall ahem accidentally catching fire once.


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[Icy Gull]

Assembly at Prep school when the Cuban Missile crisis had escalated to critical level and being told by the head master that we could be on the cusp of a nuclear war.

As you can imagine that impacted big time on a 10 year old

Next was being in prep and a master coming in and telling us that JFK was dead

I could take you to the exact place I was in both instances

I spent most of my young life in Malaya and all over Africa so have no recollection of anything stunning in local or National news. Moving so often made my parents decide to send me to boarding school at 8, bloody loved it

 

[Official Old Man]

Reminded of Aberfan. I was coming back from Blackpool after a holiday there with parents. Remember it being on the news and Father saying it was close to where we were. Close as in we were on the equivalent of the M6 at the time.
And the Torrey Canyon sinking in 1967 with planes trying to blow it up.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Great Thread, I was born in 1953 and my memory is a bit sketchy of my early years, so like others I've been on Google to refresh it. These are the things that I can recall, having been reminded of them!

Local - 1958 Southern Television was launched, big thing when you're a kid and have been used to watching only BBC TV.

National - 1958 1st Hovercraft launched, this was massive to me as a 5 year old, a real flying saucer! And soon after every kid in the country had a Dinky model of it.

International - I vaguely remember Sputnik 1 being launched by the Russians in 1957, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 which nearly led to WW3.
But I was a lot more interested when the USA launched their Telstar Satellite in 1962 as we could receive live pictures from The USA for the first time, and The Tornados released this classic

 

[Icy Gull]

Having had a think, I do recall us driving somewhere and the news of Stirling Moss’ accident at Goodwood coming through on the radio

 

[elwheelio]

I remember seeing a bit of the 9pm news one night and they were covering Jeffrey Dahmer's trial. I would have been 9 or 10 years old. Scared the shit out of me. Still remember it now.

 

[elwheelio]

Churchill's funeral

Ooh, yes

 

[Thunder Bolt]

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

I should be able to remember the King dying and the Coronation the next year but I have no memory of it at all.
We didn't have a television until 1961 and the radio was only on for specific programmes, so that probably explains it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Aberfan disaster.

Same for me very sadly. That horrible grainy footage. I was just a wee boy at the time. Dad was taking me to my first Scotland game, v Wales at Ninian Park. The Aberfan disaster was the day before the game and twenty miles away. I'd never seen grown-ups cry before. I didn't know they could

 

[Icy Gull]

There are some proper old codgers on NSC

Enjoying this thread

Disappointed that nobody has come up with Take That breaking up and how suicidal they were

 

[FloatLeft]

Probably something to do with the Falklands War.

HMS Sheffield being hit to be more precise.

 

[Icy Gull]

Probably something to do with the Falklands War.

HMS Sheffield being hit to be more precise.

Didn’t that happen during a night game at the Goldstone? I have a very clear memory of a British ship being hit whilst actually at a game

 

[A1X]

Disappointed that nobody has come up with Take That breaking up and how suicidal they were

Seems more of a Crodo thing TBH

 

[Pevenseagull]

International: Voyager 2 Launch (being a couple of weeks before Voyager 1)

National/local: The risk of Skylab crashing on us. Closely followed by Skylab not crashing on us.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

The miners strikes and the bombing of the grand, I reckon. Although I don't remember much more than seeing the images on TV.

I'm guessing the IRA bombing The Grand covers all three slots of Local, National and International.

 

[The Wookiee]

Who shot JR

 

[daveinprague]

Profumo affair

 

[studio150]

While aware of events earlier that these, I don't recall how I experienced them.

Local - Winter 1967 School was closed and we were sent home, the snow was virtually up to my waist and I recall someone skiing down the bank in Victoria Park
National - Decimalisation
International - Moon Landing