What is the first major news story that you can remember

It was another child at school who told me the King had died. She was weeping, too. I was quite shocked he’d died, but not at the weeping level. I just thought how strange it would be singing God Save the Queen, like Victorian children. We were eleven.

The death of Queen Mary. I was in a taxi with my grandmother driving up the Mall and she told me Queen Mary had died, and we could see all the windows of Clarence House were blacked out.

Exalted wombat - I can assure you that the death of the King in 1952 and coronation of the new Queen in 1953 could not have been more major news nationally, at the time! As someone else remarked, to those who had ben through the war, the King & Queen (later the Queen Mother) were very popular, I too remember being amazed that the National Anthem was going to be different.

It was the dreadful Aberfan disaster. I was alone in the house and my Grandad came in to tell me the news ,he was really upset .I can remember asking him if he wanted a cup of tea. I was not allowed to use the kettle so made it from the hot tap. For some reason i put pepper in his tea as I knew he liked pepper on his food.It is such a vivid memory.

JFK & Churchill's funeral. Not sure now which was first. Would have been 12 when JFK died.

Winston Churchill died in January 1965. JFK was assassinated on 22nd November 1963. It was my sister’s 13th birthday.

When there was threat of nuclear war ...Bay of Pigs...Kennedy... science lessons being taken over by how to survive the bomb...reading leaflets how to build a bomb shelter...my dad going to lots of meetings as he was in Special Constable and also Red Cross....looking back pretty certain we would not have reached the under stairs cupboard in time! But I know I knew enough to be scared and when Kennedy made his speech that we were safe I know I was relieved, I was only 11 or 12.

The death of George VI, I remember my Mother saying "The King is dead, long live the Queen" and having to explain what she meant. Then the Coronation with street parties and flag waving.

I remember being terribly frightened by the television. It seemed to have awful things oozing out of it. I didn't understand it and so went out of the room when the news came on.

Years later I worked out it was the Bay of Pigs.

I remember the aberfan disaster and I remember watching the funeral of Winston Churchill and my parents wondering why I wanted to watch it all. I loved the pomp and ceremony then and I still do.

I remember the Queen's wedding. I was 2 years old in 1947 and remember standing in front of the radio and Mum saying "shush, it's Princess Elizabeth's wedding." She had the service on from Westminster Abbey. The next thing I remember is the king dying in 1952.

Abervan I'm like you juggernaut can still weep about it.
I've just asked oh suez crisis is the one what he remembers

When they went into Auschwitz. I can remember my mother looking at the paper and making some comment - it was her shock as much as anything I remember. What she told me must have stayed with me and I pieced it all together later in life.

Also We will fight them on the beaches, that was on the wireless. Churchill's voice is so familiar. Gran threw her apron over her face and wiped her eyes.

Sad memories begin with JFK, I remember Aberfan & Torre Canyon also but they were later. We had our first TV in 1963.

Remember getting a book after Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong-Jones also remember birth of Prince Andrew later Prince Edward.

I think seeing News on TV has a greater impact than hearing it on the Radio. I was born in 1955 & our Radio was always on, tuned to Home Service (Radio 4) in the morning , remember Jack de Manio & the time checks!!!!. Light programme (Radio 2) for the rest of the day.

I remember Churchill telling us the war was over , we were all listening to the radio and had to not move as Dad thought keeping the sound low made the battery last longer

Coronation, I was 3 and my grandmother had just got a television,so we all went to watch. I was so bored!!

Then Suez and the Hungarian uprising in 1956.

Kennedy assasination but as it was in this country it was Abefan that really made a horrible impression of me. Just thinking of those poor children now makes me shudder.x

I can remember a headline in Daily Express about Eisenhower visiting UK, because it called him Ike, and I thought that was an odd name. And I can remember the Norman Hartnell sketches of the Queen's dress to wear at Princess Margaret's wedding in the paper. (1959/1960) Strange to think newspapers being earlier memories than TV.
Earliest TV world memory was Take Your Pick being interuppted for 2 Newsflashes. JFK shot, and JFK dead. Not having thought about it for years, I was telling my son about it the week before last.

Travelling back from holiday with my family (I was 13) from Great Yarmouth on the train, someone must have had a portable radio and shouted England had won the World Cup. It was the only time that we went away for a week as usually we could only afford day trips so I think it stuck in my mind because of that because I didn't usually pay any attention to football.

First memory is of The Festival of Britain 1951 ? Then George V1 dying.Also my father died in 1951 when I was 7.

Kennedy Assassination

The Aberfan disaster, and the assasination of JFK, such dreadful events, no one will forget.

I remember seeing drawings of what the Queen's Coronation Dress was going to look like. I was 7 at the time.

I was about five when we were living in a delicatessen my parents had brought in Australia. I wasn’t impervious to the TV news although it did not matter much to my small world but I remember my father coming back from this he shopfront with an ashen and shocked face saying, ‘They’ve shot President Kennedy.’ I knew then from the reaction of adults that something shattering had happened in the world beyond our home.

I remember a lot of the major news stories mentioned above. However, one thing I do remember is that Harold Macmillan who was then, I think, the Prime Minister, telling us that we'd 'never had it so good' and my father snorting in derision, saying 'what does he know!'.