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

[Barry Izbak]

Old bloke alert.....

The first thing I remember on TV was Winston Churchill's funeral

I don't remember the World Cup Final though, which was two years later

 

[DavidRyder]

Yootha Joyce dying in 1980, remember seeing it whilst at a holiday camp

 

[GT49er]

Old bloke alert.....

The first thing I remember on TV was Winston Churchill's funeral

I don't remember the World Cup Final though, which was two years later

It was the following year (Churchill '65, World Cup '66).

 

[Is it PotG?]

The kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle.

 

[Mexican Seagull]

Cuba missile crisis, watching the news on BBC black & white and especially my dads reaction - he was really scared a new world war was about to start.
Aberfan disaster

 

[Gabbafella]

Local: no idea
National: Charles and Diana wedding (1981)
International: Chernobyl and Challenger disaster (1986)

 

[marcos3263]

Local and international - Falklands war as my dad went off to fight and so cameras down at the docks to see the ship go off and I was briefly seen in the crowd 1982
National - Charles and Diana's wedding as I was on a scout camp and we watched it on a tiny black and white telly hooked up to a car battery. 1981 - I was 9

I do think I remember the storming of the embassy in 1980 but it may be just a big thing in my time that I should remember!

In the same way I remember the Fireman strikes in 1977 as my army dad was drafted in to drive the Green goddesses but as I would have been 5 I'm sure it is a passed down memory.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Aberfan disaster.

Sadly, that was also my first thought

Local - probably some Albion related thing
International - Moon landing

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Local - Drought reporting and Dutch Elm disease - 76
National - Princess Anne & Cpt Mark Phillips wedding - 73
International - Elvis Death - 77

Do you remember there was a campaign which was "Plant a tree in '73" and they ran it again the next year as "Plant more in '74". I thought that was national, but I wonder if it was related to Dutch Elm Disease?

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

JFK's death.

 

[Baker lite]

Heatwave in 76.
Iranian embassy siege.
Elvis snuffing it whilst laying a cable.


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[Uh_huh_him]

Do you remember there was a campaign which was "Plant a tree in '73" and they ran it again the next year as "Plant more in '74". I thought that was national, but I wonder if it was related to Dutch Elm Disease?

It could well have been.

 

[Rinkmaster]

Two main stories stick in my mind. The world cup in 1966 and Nobby Styles skipping across Wembley and the disaster that was Aberfan. I was nine when they happened. Aberfan was shocking.

 

[lawros left foot]

Churchill’s funeral.

I particularly remember the cranes dipping as the funeral barge went by in the Thames.

Local, my Dads workmate committing suicide. Or, a tug of love case with my foster sister’s real sister involved between her foster parents who were a bit creepy, and the real Mum. The first time I can remember of the press being absolute assholes.

International, JFK.

 

[lawros left foot]

Local: Maria Colwell murder
National/international : SR-71 flying from New York to London in under 2 hours
International/interstellar : The Apollo moon landings

Maria Colwell shared a social worker with my foster sisters. Another case of the press being assholes.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I think it was the 3-Day Week in Jan - Feb 1974 .

I was 5 at the time and can remember my family having to light candles and paraffin lamps in the evenings.

 

[lawros left foot]

Reading through this thread, the only event that seems to fit all 3 criteria,local, national, and international is the bombing of the Grand.

 

[bobbysmith01]

JFK's death.

Same


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[The Clamp]

I recall The Hungerford Massacre breaking. I don’t remember much about the actual incident from the time but I remember my Dad’s face going ashen during the news-flash.

 

[The Clamp]

that live Iranian hostage thing which interrupted the tv schedules was quite gripping. This is the oldest I can currently remember.

Yep. Allowing the terrorists inside to watch the operation live from outside. Or is that an urban myth?