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

[Cheshire Cat]

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.

 

[Questions]

Churchill’s funeral and Pathe news at the cinema banging on about some football match in 66.

 

[Lindfield by 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]

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.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

...the Silver Jubilee...the power cuts

Aaaah yes and yes. Does it count as remembering if someone has to remind you?! I loved the candles too, and the little Calor gas stove that came out at tea time *sigh*

 

[Live by the sea]

Elvis dying . I remember a hot summer evening in 77 and hearing he had died on the TV . I was shocked .

 

[Happy Exile]

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!

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Being from Newhaven

Lord Lucan (local/national)

Munich 1972 (international)

 

[poidy]

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


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[DavePage]

1964 Tokyo melody theme for the olympics
1965 Churchill’s funeral in black and white
early 60’s checking out phone boxes and pressing button B, just in case

 

[The Wookiee]

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