What old news story repeatedly pops into your mind now and again

The death of Prince Phillip is another one that will stick with me, not because I liked him or anything. But because he died aged 99, on the 9th April which is the 99th day of the year (except on a leap year).
I’m not the rain man btw, I read that fact on twitter on the day :lol:
 


addicted_to_safc said:
Another one I think about regularly is Dunblane, absolutely horrendous. I just can't get my head around how anyone could do that to little children.
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Was about 16 and can remember going home from school for me dinner and that being on the news. Can still picture that teachers face. Awful. Can also remember Trevor McDonald almost in tears on the news at ten.
 
Growing up in the 80's was no shortage of disasters. Piper Alpha I can remember mainly. But a few years ago was a story about a little boy in Africa in who'd been thrown out by his village I mean like 4 year old. An aid worker was giving him water, my wife came down stairs and I was in tears. Just imagining my little lad all alone like that. It had a happy ending he was taken in by the charity but still sticks with me.
 
Gordan Ramsey's dwarf porn double found dead in a badger's set.

There's so much to unpack from that headline it still baffles me.
I appreciate that's probably lowered the tone spectacularly.

And with that, my job here is done.
becs said:
Manchester IRA bomb. A picture of debris everywhere and a postbox standing pretty much unscathed in the middle of it.
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It's still there to this day!
Therokerroar said:
The song zombie by the cranberries is about that incident ,

The parents of the boys have been remarkable through it all
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I did not know that.
en.wikipedia.org

Zombie (The Cranberries song) - Wikipedia

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