September 11 tops ‘emotional moments’ poll

THE September 11 terror attacks in the US topped a poll of the most emotional moments in the past 50 years, it emerged yesterday.

September 11 tops ‘emotional moments’ poll

The 2001 event was polled ahead of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 and the Lockerbie disaster in 1988 in the league table of Britain's biggest highs and lows.

The survey by the Samaritans, which is due to be published today, ranked the Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people were killed ahead of this year's Gulf War and the Hillsborough disaster on the league table of events which have most touched Britons.

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