5 March

On 5 March 2005, after her first encounter with him the day before, Rose Tyler investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist Clive about his website on the Doctor at whoisdoctorwho.co.uk. Rose's boyfriend, Mickey Smith, was abducted by Autons and replaced with an Auton duplicate. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness' signal to the London Eye. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness with anti-plastic. She joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive was killed by the Autons as they assaulted London. (TV: Rose, Aliens of London) Elton Pope was also out shopping in the city center at the time and survived the attack. (TV: Love & Monsters) The invasion, which would subsequently covered up as a 'terrorist attack', had spread to at least Cardiff where the city center was brought to its knees as Barry Jackson used it as a cover for his murder of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Roy Llewellyn. (AUDIO: One Rule)

On that same day, Ellie Oswald, the mother of the Eleventh Doctor's future companion Clara Oswald and the wife of Dave Oswald, died at the age of 44. The Eleventh Doctor observed her funeral from afar. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)