Tommy Cooper was an icon of British Comedy. I saw this happen on the TV as it was happening! Everyone thought it was part of the show. He was a very funny man RIP Tommy Cooper😢

I recommend looking up Glasgow comedy legend Billy Connolly talking about the Glasgow Airport attack. There was a baggage handler who became something of a hero in Scotland because he physically attacked the man who had set himself on fire and was trying to hurt people.

The "stay put" advice is based on the idea that each apartment is built in a self-contained way that limits the fire to one room. By leaving, all the doors are opened for the fire to spread. Ever since Grenfell happened, government ministers & the media (all of whom have massive financial interests in poorly built property) have tried to deflect blame onto the firefighters for the stay put advice, but if the building had been built and maintained the way it should have been by law, then it would have been good advice. *P.s The same goes for the Bradford Stadium fire, which should 100% be in the top 3 of this list since the whole thing was broadcast live (it's even on KZfaq) and 56 people died. Another needless fire tragedy caused by greedy cost-cutting.

Tommy cooper dying was tragic. I remember watching it as a kid I was about 6. But the fact JT said Tommy Cooper's catchphrase "just like that" while discussing his death was pretty funny. Lol.

Grenfell was horrific. In council flats in Britain it has always been the advice for residents to stay put during a fire in a flat because the blocks were quite fire resistant or at least for wouldn't spread easily. Also it would keep the residents out of the stairwells so the fire brigade could access the apartments. The problem was when the council gave flats a cheap facelift using substandard materials and fitting. The Cladding on the exterior went up in minutes spreading across the whole block.

the worst thing about Grenfell was that the block was in one of the wealthiest boroughs in the country. the cladding was added as the richer residents complained that the building was ugly. the council which owned the block, Westminster (i think) chose the cheapest cladding available which was known to be unsuitable. the council had plenty of money to spend and did not need to skimp. they also failed to install sprinklers and proper fire doors. when the fire broke out the cladding combusted and acted as a chimney drawing the fire ever higher up the building. the fire service advised people to stay put because normally the correct fire doors correctly fitted would have kept them safe for several hours. there were also insufficient fire exits etc. compounding it all was it was late at night and families with small children and disabled residents were housed on the higher floors which made their evacuation all but impossible. the council's reactions to the disaster were awful and totally inadequate. as many of the residents were from minority communities no prizes for guessing why. the residents deserved so much better. young children died as well as adults. they died because the millionaires on the council wanted to avoid spending money on their safety. the government were not much better. as you can tell, this disaster has affected so many people and many of the problems highlighted are yet to be addressed. the best memorial for these people would be that this never happens again and the bastards responsible get what they deserve.

The Hillsborough tragedy is something that I'll never forget, as a 13yr old Liverpool fan at the time I was watching the match live and remember there being a commotion at the Liverpool end nobody realised what was happening at first an then the players noticed something wasn't right and play stopped, following the disaster the families of those that lost their lives spent years fighting for justice.

I appreciate you exploring some of Britain's darkest news stories JT. You are a natural entertainer but know how to be respectful. Great vid 👍

The Bradford City FC fire should be on this list. I saw it on Grandstand and watched people who were on fire running on to the pitch... 56 people died. Similarly the Hysel Stadium disaster was broadcast live... 39 people died during that. So... Watch Mojo decided to open up with Anthea Turner getting a bit singed? FFS!

The unintended irony of JT's "just like that" on the Tommy cooper death.

It missed out the 144 children and School staff that died in 1965 in Aberfan , Wales when a Coal Tip Avalanche occurred. The school was covered😢

The upside (if can be called that) the Scottish behavior was to fight the man on fire so he cant do any more damage, kudos to the tenacity of the Scottish !!

The fact that JT used the words “just like that” when talking about Tommy Coopers passing was obviously not intentional, but low key memorialised Cooper.

You should watch the documentary on the Hillsborough disaster it changed English Football forever, the 97 will never be forgotten and thankfully the country learned from this tragedy.

John smeaton, the baggage handler at the Glasgow airport, saw what was happening and ran in to beat the crap out of the suicide bomber. Real hero , right there. The Grenfell fire was a disgusting case showing just how unsafe council shortcuts were and forced a national policy change to re-surface other tower blocks that had similar cladding.

Grenfell happened on my dad's birthday, I remember it every year. As they were council flats, a large proportion of the residents were poor & families. As of last July (5 years later) noone has been held legally or criminally responsible. At least a dozen firefighters at the scene now have rare cancers as a direct result of the cladding material burning.

I have to say hearing her saying about the 3 boys again made me tear up such a sad sad event it happens every Yr here in England were not cold enough for the ice to be thick enough to walk on but small children are unaware we need to educate our children of the dangers of going near water in winter

telling the people to stay put when there’s a fire was actually the right thing to do, normally. as usually any fire wouldn’t have spread as viciously to reach the other floors. but due to the flammable cladding, the fire climbed up the outside of the building rapidly. if the cladding wasn’t flammable, it’s likely the fire would have only been secluded to one or two floors.

4:38 Last night (13/7) the first police officers on the scene at that lake were give awards for bravery for jumping into the lake and trying to break the ice with their bare hands trying to save the boys, risking their own lives. 🇬🇧❤️😢

May I suggest? Search Hillsborough disaster, and see what actually happened, he really skirted over a lot of that, it actually took over 30 years to get justice for both Liverpool soccer fans and victims !! I worked for the local radio station when this happened, thousands of people phoned in, some with heart breaking stories, it was dreadful! I cried when I heard the news of boys in the lake, it was so incredibly sad!!

Tommy Cooper was a legend of British comedy. The sad thing is, because he did so much slapstick, the audience just thought it was part of the act. As for the Hillsborough disaster and the Grenfell Tower fire, both of those tragedies ended up causing huge changes in the way the police and fire departments deal with disasters. Hillsborough in particular led to huge and lengthy official inquiries and court cases.

He didn't care because he had nothing to lose. He shot one of the people that took his home away from him who then had the audacity to mock him. He may not have went through with the shot had they not been so cocky and arrogant about it. Moral of the story is don't mess with someone who has nothing to lose.

The Glasgow Airport one resulted in a quite amusing interview with one of the airport workers who had fought off one of the terrorists, in which he advised "this is Glasgow, we'll set about ye" basically saying what's a terrorist thinking coming here, we'll kick their head in

I'm surprised the Bradford City stadium fire didn't get a mention, 56 died in horrific circumstances

Although not televised another example of theatre where death occurred during a live performance was British Comedian actor Sidney James who was performing in Sunderland. Much like Tommy Cooper in his case he was on a sofa when he wasn't saying his line.The audience thought it was the material but the supporting actors realised something was wrong. A doctor was in the audience, came on stage and confirmed he was dead. It was later confirmed to be a heart attack.

The tragic thing about the grenfell tower was that the firemen had thought they had put the initial fire out & were packing up.the fire started up again due to the cladding not been fire safe.having been told to stay inside it makes it more tragic17 fire fighters have since retired with ptsd.

I'm a lifelong Liverpool fan. My mum and her side of the family are scousers. One of my cousins was in the stadium. Thankfully he was one of lucky ones who got out safely. The so called newspaper that blamed the fans isn't sold in most places in Liverpool now

I dunno what made me cry more, those dear little boys on the icy lake, Hillsborough or Grenfell, these get me every time I'm reminded of it, a few other tragedies popped into my head too😢

I'm surprised that 7/7 wasn't on this list. It was the 18th anniversary of this just over a week ago, and it was basically our 9/11. I'd like for you to do a reaction or two to that, JT. Thank you for being respectful, and for being you ❤️

watch the billy conolly take on the glasgow attack its so funny

JT I used to live in Ladbroke Grove near Notting Hill close to Grenfell Tower. I knew people who lived in the tower one of whom died the others thankfully survived. I can assure you it was not the faulty fridge that took the lives of the 72 residents, but rather cost cutting by the owners if the building. It was Noel long before the fire that the building was poorly maintained and the smoke alarms and fire doors did not function properly, it was an accident waiting to happen. The was only one staircase in the building, that was the only fire escape, the stairwells were very quickly filled with thick toxic smoke. Unless you were actually there, you couldn't begin to imagine how fast the building went up in flames. Sadly I was there and it will live with me forever 💔

Out of those 10 incidents, I watched 2 of them on tv. I was 11 years old and vividly remember watching Tommy Cooper's act, he was my favourite magician at the time as his act always consisted of the tricks going wrong, him getting a huge laugh and then making it go right, but when his assistant brought on that huge cloak and buttoned it all up, he just collapsed on the stage as if it was far too heavy and everyone in the theatre, and I'm sure the tens of millions who like me were watching it at home roared with laughter, the timing was superb, then quite quickly the tv channel went to an advert break which was a lot longer than normal, and the program never came back on that evening. I like to think that he died there and then with the sound of laughter sending him on his way. The second one I watched live was when I was 14 years old, I turned the tv on to hopefully watch my team, Liverpool, beat Nottingham Forest and make it to the FA Cup final, at first, like everyone I suppose, I never had a clue what was going on, all I could see were tons of Liverpool fans encroaching the pitch, and then eventually streaming onto it. When the referee blew his whistle to stop play and send the players off the pitch, I remember the Forest fans were chanting anti Liverpool things, they clearly didn't know or appreciate what was happening either, but credit to them, once they saw and could feel what was going on, they immediately stopped the chants and those that could, tried to help get the injured Liverpool fans away from any more danger. When the semi final was eventually played, it had a very sombre atmosphere and mood, thankfully Liverpool won that match and made it to the final, where they met their great city rivals Everton, now they may be fierce rivals when it comes to their clubs, but both sets of fans know that the city of Liverpool is most important, and they came together, the players and supporters, to pay respect to those who never came back home from Hillsborough alive, once the game started, the rivalry was back in full force, and rather fittingly and being the best tribute to those who never made it home from Hillsborough, Liverpool won the final and the FA Cup

That was by far the saddest video you have posted. The tears were streaming during the story about the children. Also,I remember being in hospital with my mum and laying on the bed with her whilst we watched the smoke from Grenfell drift across. It was a few months before she died,so that brought back some memories. On a much lighter note: love the Metallica t-shirt. They're one of my favourite bands.

Dryden is a legend he taught the council who’s land they were dealing with

I was working in Glasgow on the day of the airport attack. I saw all the specialist fire appliances barrel down the street I worked on, but never heard a thing about the attack. Even on the way home I didn't hear anything, so I got a shock when I put the TV on later. I flew out of Glasgow airport only a week or so after that, and you could still smell burning and see where it had happened. The craziest thing about the attackers was that they were doctors at one of our biggest hospitals. I can't even look at pictures of Grenfell, it's just horrific. My earliest memory is escaping a fire when I was a baby. The upstairs neighbours torched their flat as part of an insurance scam (yes they went to jail). I don't think I was more than 18 months old but the memory is still so vivid. If the cladding on Grenfell had been adequate, the fire would probably have been contained to only the apartment with the faulty fridge, due to the construction of the building, but the local council's decision to use cheap, nasty cladding (that the residents had already complained about many times...) turned the block into a death trap.

As someone who has lived in several tower blocks in London and been involved in a fire where the flat below caught fire and I was at risk of death, Grenfell will always be the worst disaster. Not only was the cladding at fault but I was not surprised to learn about the inability to stop letting tower blocks deteriorate by councils just because they house poor people and/or immigrants, it goes right back to the 70's & also Thatcher's time in particular - the same happened on my estate only thankfully, it didn't lead to any major incidents and two of the three blocks left to rot where demolished for newer blocks (the third was heavily refurbished)

I remember Tommy Cooper dying. It was a huge loss. However. It would be interesting to see your reaction to his routines. He was so so funny

I'm surprised that there is no mention of the Bradford City fire disaster. The football game between Bradford City and Lincoln City was shown live on TV to celebrate Bradford's promotion. A small fire started in one of the stands before the whole stand was an inferno. All on live TV. Over 50 people perished. Sad thing was the cheers and the chanting of the fans as the stand was burning.

remember all but one im surprised Bradford city football fire was not on this list that was bad too

It wasnt so much the fridge, but the cheqp cladding and insulation the council used

When things are built according to building regulations for tall buildings, the safest thing normally is to stay put, because they are built to avoid fire spreading (as there are no fire trucks with ladders that long etc). But the problem was that these weren't insulated with the right materials, so instead of the fire staying in one flat/one floor, it spread along the cladding on the outside of the building.

Grenfell was a travesty... I remember watching when it happened and the screams still haunt me... Thanks for showing these lad, they're important to us here

A similar heart attack situation happened on WWE when Jerry Lawyer had a heart attack live on show at the commentary table, though he managed to get help and survived.

I'm old enough to remember that moment with Tommy Cooper. It was during the Royal Variety Performance - an annual event held at a famous London theatre and attended by royalty, that was also televised. He just sort of sunk to his knees and slumped in a heap with his head bowed, making these faint noises like he was snoring. The live audience there was laughing, thinking it was all part of the act, and then the title card came up for those of us watching on tv and there was a hard cut to commercials. By the time they were over, and the show came back on and continued with some other act entirely, most of guessed something wasn't right, and the tv network was swamped with calls from concerned viewers asking what the heck had happened. His death was announced on the national news soon afterwards.

About Grenfell (tower block fire), it's not that people were told 'if there's ever a fire, stay put.' The instruction was 'stay put until the fire brigade or police give you instructions.' Which was a problem because the fire brigade and the police on the day both told residents to stay put until it was far too late. That's the hardest thing to understand - how on earth it took so long for them to tell people to take their chances and run. The theory of staying put works when the building isn't built like it wants to catch fire. Evacuating slowly to prevent crushes or putting out the fire quickly if it's on a lower floor makes sense - don't move people into unnecessary danger. But who is going to listen to that now? Not me. Not when I don't know how safe the building I'm in is. That's a problem caused by local governments not enforcing safety standards, and one that we now know is a problem across the country and isn't likely to be resolved.

The people were told to stay in Grenfell Tower to allow the firemen to tackle the fire without hindrance on stairs. The initial fire was thought to have been dealt with as a routine incident. What wasn't known was the substandard insulation behind the exterior cladding had began to burn unseen by everyone. Tragic.

I was watching Tommy Cooper the night that he died on Live From Her Majesty's! Yes you are right it was in front of a Live Audience at Her Majesty's theatre in London and was being broadcast live on the ITV network so millions (literally) of us saw him collapse that night and it took producers a wee bit of time before they realised what had happened and they brought the back of the curtain over him and as was said it cut straight to the adverts! It was so quick that his death was announced on the ITV news immediately after the programme finished! He had been rushed to hospital and I believe declared DOA If memory serves Donny Osmond had starred on the show that night! I should hasten to add I was only 13 at the time and watching it alone in my bedroom on old black and white tv

The tragedy with the Grenfell tower fire was actually the outside cladding, which once it had caught fire continued to spread on the outside of the building and then break back into the building elsewhere even after after the original refrigerator fire was put out. The cladding apparently was recommended as being safe and efficient for the cladding job, they made a mistake in approving it. Later it was found out that it was used in quite a number of other similar buildings in various other places. Cheers Aah Kid!!

“They didn’t cancel it? They kept on with the episode?” It was live, not recorded and broadcast later

Theory behind telling people to stay in their flats/apartment was base on the idea that each separate residence was self contained and fire should not spread from one to another. But at Grenfell Tower the fire spread throughout the building because of combustible outer wall cladding.

Hi JT, In a tall building fire, if the building is properly built and maintained, standard advice is to stay in your flat/apartment. The reasons are: the fire fighters will be on the stairs, so you wont be able to pass them and will slow their efforts. the stair well will be full of smoke, you probably wont be able to get passed. the unit you are in should be fire proof for a given length of time, the fire fighters should be aware of that time and able to get to you in that time. not everyone in the building will be able to get out by themselves, its easier to rescue everyone rather than search for those that could not get themselves out. as you leave you have to open doors, doing so causes a draught, which allows the fire extra air. Note this was also the advice in the world trade centre.

It’s weird that their narrator thought “UP2U” wasn’t pronounced as up to you.

How has the Bradford City 1985 fire not made this list... I remember watching it live on telly with my dad, never seen him cry before, so sad........

Tommy Cooper - probably the way he wanted to go, "Just like that!" (you will have to watch his stuff to understand that) Glasgow attack, i think thats the one mentioned by Billy Connelly in one of his sketches. Grenfell - ah yes, they blamed everything from a washing machine (the company did actually do a recall to fix the part that caused this) a fridge, other electrical stuff, yet in the end, it was found out it was cutting corners and costs in recladding the building that meant substandard and by the time they were used, recalled cladding was used on the outside of the building, the council ended up in a massive lawsuit because of it. Also, i cant believe they didnt put 11th september 2001 on here, the 2nd impact was shown live on the BBC news, who was broadcasting the news of the 1st impact. It was live tv and the description was not British tragedies caught on live tv, it was tragedies caught on live british tv, so still fits the title. Oh, Santa Pod raceway seems to have had a bit of a thirst for blood since 1983, especially if the fatal practice of that stunt happened on that dragstrip, as in November it also claimed Allan "Bootsie" Herridge, and Alan Ritmeisters in april 1984 (november being last event in the calendar Bonfire night finale where they did some night racing and april being one of the first events in the year Easter Nationals (i was there for that one, was almost sure i was there for the november too but we left early on the sunday, never knew why)

If I remember correctly, you shed a little tear whilst watching the "most effective tv ads" too. Men crying is ok today, JT, even in Kentucky. 😢

I watched tommy cooper pass away on stage when i was about 6, I remember it to this day. I also watched the Hillsborough disaster on the telly, I have been a Liverpool fan ever since and went to uni with somone who knew some of those no longer with us. The clubs manager Kenny Dalglish went to EVERY funeral

The Glasgow attack was just 2 days after the London bus bombings on the 7 of July 2007 . The Glasgow attack was the first terrorist attack in Scotland since the Lockerbie bombing which took down a jumbo jet and several houses in the village of Lockerbie in 1988 .

The reason why the fire brigade told people to stay put is because in tower blocks, the flats are built in a way that protects the occupants. Should one of them catch fire, it is self contained within its boundaries. The problem with this tower block was that it had had cladding fitted with a flammable foam filling for insulation, to the outside of the building. When the fire from the flat broke the windows and the flames hit this foam, it ignited and spread up the whole of the building on the outside, breaking windows with the heat and decimating other flats. I watched this live on television and was in tears. I too lived in a tower block at the time.

You should also checkout the 1987 Bradford City stadium fire. Like Hillsborough it was broadcasted live on National tv. It was just awful watching as a whole football stand went up in flames

It's a common thread between fire disasters that loss of life can be attributed to the cost cutting in fire safety and construction.

Grenfell didn't even have sprinklers. The "stay put" rule has now been abolished. The photo's of The Hillsborough Disaster are horrendous.

You did hear that right & it was once sensible advice. Grenfell Tower was originally designed in a way that fire would be isolated in each apartment/section with a risk of it spreading to a staircase. Staying put works as it will burn itself out or be put out. Then sone dopey sod puts plastic on the outside to make it look nice - all the oils around the tower exterior catch fire resulting the tower now being a large hollow candle. They can't put it out with water because you can't put water on a oil fire. Fireball effect. So with the original orders to stay put, residents die breathing in smoke.

Similar to Grenfell Tower in 1997 on the housing estate where I live Kerrin Point exploded because of a faulty boiler . Because hardly anyone was home there were no deaths and very few injuries however people are still living in temporary accommodations to this day . Another thing to note there's a Texaco petrol station near the site and if any flaming debris had hit that then who knows what would've happened .

I remember as a kid the telly was on in the background showing the football when the Bradford stadium disaster happened. It took like two minutes. I remember seeing this one fella on fire.

One of our worst disaster in the UK. Thankfully not on live TV was the Bradford City football disaster. You should watch the videos on that. I had to watch it as part of my UEFA football security training and I cried. It was devastating to watch. At the same time, you see so much heroism from the fans and staff there that day

This (Hillsborough) is why us scousers hate the establishment and that particular excuse for a newspaper with a passion!!!

There was another football stadium disaster back in the 80s which was on TV. I was only about 12 and I remember the Saturday afternoon football show suddenly switching to Bradford where there was a pitch invasion (not uncommon at the time). In reality, the main stand had caught fire - it was made of wood and and the whole thing burnt to the ground in about two minutes with 56 people dead. It was all live and it was utterly horrific. I've never wanted to search for it on KZfaq.

The stay put advice for grenfell residents should have been correct with fire doors etc but unfortunately the fire spread between floors via the combustible cladding on the outside of the building. The aftermath of that fire is still dragging on over 5 years later!

My husband couldn’t watch anything to do with Hillsborough without cry, he was watching it unfold & was traumatised by the entire thing 😢 My hubby was also watching the Tommy Cooper performance & he remembers laughing thinking it was part of the act, but then they closed the curtains & everyone was ushered out! Your comment about people being fine one minute & then gone broke me … I checked on my poorly hubby at 12noon, asked if he wanted a cuppa & he said not at the moment, so I came downstairs & went up at 2pm to find him half in & half out of bed - dead 💔

*Bradford Fire Disaster* being ignored as usual, while the *Hillsborough Disaster* gets mentioned. 56 people died, and 100s were injured at *Bradford City AFC's Valley Parade Stadium* on the 11th of May 1985.

I saw Tommy Cooper when he collapsed on TV when I was young and we all thought it was part of the act but when they cut to the ads, everyone knew there was something wrong. It was later when we were told the tragic news. I forget things from when I was young but that will forever stay in my memory. Same as Hillsborough and all the other tragedies. A shame we often remember stuff for all the wrong reasons.

That was Jenny Powell at the end of the UP2U clip not Anthea Turner. I liked that Jenny said Anthea had gone to have a cup of tea, typically British response to anything going wrong!

My dad was working right next to Grenfell at the time and the morning after, he was shaking the hands of the firemen and helping give them bottles of water and sandwiches as they'd worked throughout the night

I was 7 years old and I STILL watching Tommy Cooper pass away on stage. I didn’t understand what I was watching at the time but I remember my Mum trying to explain it to me. Very sad.

I had forgotten about the Dryden shooting. It was only a few miles from where I worked at the time

there are hundreds of tower blocks in the UK like this the sadest thing is their doing very little to solve it. the tower is still standing today. the reason they were told to stay in is because it started on the bottom at one side at 1:30am and went up and over the whole outside of the building jumping up from balcony to balcony fast due to the flammable material the outside was built with. its so sad

The refridgerator did not cause it, if the cladding had been fire proof it would not have happened. The cladding was known to be defective but it was installed anyway. The advice was given because normally a fire would be contained to a single flat. What happened is that all of the cladding went up and spread the fire to all floors.

I lived 1 mile from Glasgow Airport at the time of the attack and it was crazy watching the aftermath from my home. My mum was a nurse at the local hospital (RAH, where one terrorist had worked as a doctor) where the burned terrorist went to - A&E was closed as a (fake) suicide belt was found, and due to the possibility of further attacks half the hospital was then evacuated. This was especially important as the ward he was taken to was directly beneath the childrens ward. He was moved to the Royal in Glasgow the next day, and died a few weeks later. The taxi drivers and baggage handler John Smeaton helped stop the terrorists by laying into them (this brought the newspaper headline "I kicked burning terrorist so hard in the balls, I tore a tendon in my foot"!), and became local legends. Smeatos tv interview spurned a whole new saying "This is Glasgow, we'll set about ya", which is still used by folk to this day as a warning lol! As an interesting side note, the section which was damaged by the burning Jeep became the designated smoking area after the repairs had been done lol!

i applaud your compassion dude

That dude who shot the housing officer DID have permission to build a bungalow on that site, but it had to be less than a foot or 2 high. So he dug a hole and built a normal sized bungalow which he was convinced followed that permissions rules, but the government disagreed. Thats why he went nuts at the planning officer.

I remember the Tommy Cooper death, I watched that live, the audience thought it was part of the show.. 😢😢😢

The 'stay put' order is the standard practice here in the UK. Our buildings are designed to resist the spread of fire and even our internal doors are rated on the amount of time it takes for a fire to penetrate them. The idea is that opening doors and windows to escape just provides more oxygen for the fire, causing it to burn faster and in a building like Grenfell, 300 panicking people running down smoke-filled staircases will only lead to more injuries and deaths. By staying put and keeping doors and windows closed, you give time for the fire service to arrive and deal with the fire. It works exceptionally well... usually. Unfortunately, Grenfell was badly, and cheaply renovated, and the external cladding (which should have been fire resistant if fitted correctly,) caught fire and spread the flames up the building.

It was sad and truly tragic for the family of those children as they were all related. At Grenfell It was for the higher floors, they expected the fire to be put out before it could spread that high and did not want people crowding the stairs and causing accidents there. They were wrong and some residents were helping others through the blaze to get out. Some were found alive higher in the tower after it fully burnt out but, it was mismanaged. A tragic incident that should have been avoidable.

You need to see the interview with the security guard from Glasgow airport, basically saying that if terrorists come to scotland we will set about them, this guy ran out of the hospital and beat up the terrorists, flames and everything :)

Yes because each flat should have been a self contained unit and there designed so if 1 flat becomes on fire the fire should not have spread but because the cheap cladding used the fire spread thro that into the other flats

You should watch a separate video about the Hillsborough tragedy. It’s still to this day one of the worst events that ever happened in the UK

Hillsborough disaster is one of those things from my childhood I will never forget. Human error at it's absolute worst, just horrible.

i remember alot of these. its hard to revisit these memories

Typically in a properly constructed block of flats in the U.K. your safer remaining in your flat and letting the Fire brigade deal with and contain the fire to a single flat. In the case of Grenfield the company who had made the cladding had used materials not allowed to be used in the U.K. but had found a way to defeat the test designed to identify this materials use. The building company that had fitted the cladding had failed to properly fit a number of firebreaks designed to prevent the cladding creating a chimney effect. The combination of these two factors made it impossible for the Fire Brigade to defeat this fire, as soon as they realised that the fire was impossible to tackle they started evacuating as many residence as they could but unfortunately by that time it was to late for many of them.

Grenfell tower will always haunt me as it was so recent. I’ll never forget laying in bed scrolling on facebook and seeing the breaking news. Watching that building alight, seeing people throwing their children out of windows for people to catch and jumping to their sure deaths. Seeing the torches flashing from the windows and then going dark. Haunting.

I remember watching Tommy Cooper I was 8 at the time, my friend was over we all laughed thinking it was part of the show. Then realised something was wrong. 😕 and remember watching Hillsborough disaster my dad was watching the match it was horrible seeing it. A friend of mine said he was there and how terrifying it was!

There was a litte more to the story of the man who built the bungalow and shot the planning permission geezer. They had actually become good friends over the years the officer had been sent to do all the planning checks. They had alot of shared interests and spent alot of time bonding over there hobbys. When the day came, he felt betrayed by the officer, he felt he shouldn't be there because of their friendship. That's the jist of it, but there's more to it.

I live in Rugby and we had 5 high rise blocks that were only 10 floors high, but after Grenfell, they were all emptied and demolished.

Sid James died like Tommy Copper , he was appearing in a play when he had a heart attack,he was taken out back when someone asked it there was a Doctor in the house everyone started to laugh 😂 thinking it was a part of the play.

Aww that old bbc spinning globe reminds me of my 80s childhood

I remember Tommy Cooper passing on stage, we were watching the show on tv, I was 12 at the time. I didn’t realise at the time what a brilliant man he was, it’s only with the benefit of a few years that I learned to appreciate him ❤

Na at the start,that was Jenny Powell reporting on Anthea being inadvertently involved in the motorbike stunt, Anthea was already in hospital by then👌🏼💜

I was a child and was watching the royal variety show (it's shown live, every year at the beginning/early December) where Tommy Cooper died during his act on stage and like other commenters have said, thought it was part of his act! A great comedian and magician perhaps you could react to some videos of him in his awesomeness?!?!

The Aberfan disaster was missed. That is when a colliery spoil tip collapsed and engulfed a primary school killing 116 children and 28 adults. The tragedy occurred in Aberfan, south Wales, in October 1966.

The Tommy Cooper death was on live TV. I was watching, as was most of the UK. It was a big deal.