Lorraine Kelly: Covering Lockerbie was as bad as I thought it could be until Dunblane

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Much-loved TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has spoken out on covering the Dunblane massacre after she thought nothing would be “as bad” as covering the Lockerbie bombing.The 64-year-old TV personality stated the 1996 Dunblane gun attack, which left 16 students and a teacher dead and 15 others injured at Dunblane Primary School, "hit particularly hard" for her as a parent during her remarks on ITV's Good Morning Britain in honour of her 40 years in the industry.She continued by saying in order to keep herself from becoming too upset after the 1988 Lockerbie terror incident, she persuaded herself "somehow it wasn't real".

The terrorist bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 killed a total of 270 people in the Scottish borders town on December 21, 1988.Asked about how those incidents had affected her early career, Kelly said: “I think Lockerbie, I was very young and very inexperienced, and the only way I think anybody got through that was thinking that somehow it wasn’t real, and you had to almost close everything off and just be very focused on the story you were trying to tell.“And the reason that I love doing what I do so much, is we’re allowed to have emotions, we’re allowed to somehow try and tell everyone what it was like to be there on a story like that.“I thought when I did Lockerbie, ‘nothing will be as bad as that’, the worst terrorist atrocity in Europe that there has ever been, and I thought, ‘nothing will be as bad as that’.“Then Dunblane happened, and I think because Rosie (her daughter) was about two then, and I think when you’re a parent, it hit everybody hard, but when you’re a parent it hit particularly (hard).”Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today.You'll