What is the first news event you can recall?
I was born in the mid-1960s, so I should probably mention the Moon landing or the Beatles breaking up or the Vietnam War, but they were all a bit abstract for a happy-golucky boy living in rural Kent. The first news event that felt real to me was the drought of 1976. I vividly remember the scorched earth photograph on the front cover of the Sunday Times Magazine and the feeling of dread it caused in the pit of my stomach.