The Ealing Echo was a 21st century newspaper chronicling notable events in the London district of Ealing. A copy of the paper cost 15p in 2008. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
A 2008 issue reported on the replacement of a bus stop, a local music festival and a new building at Park Vale School. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
In 2009, it published a follow-up story on the explosion of the school building, which Sarah Jane Smith framed and hung in her house. (TV: The Day of the Clown)
In the same year, the Ealing Echo reported that lightning had struck in the vicinity of the BT Tower. Rani Chandra believed that the strange lights may have been caused by an alien spacecraft. However, Sarah Jane Smith had Mr Smith investigate and he determined that it was in fact lightning. (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic)
In 2010, a Shopkeeper who refused to state his age told the Ealing Echo that there was an alien in his shop. When Sarah Jane Smith, Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra saw the paper, they went to the Shopkeeper's shop. He said it was a plot to get them there to send them through a time window, each to a different time period, so they could find three special objects. (TV: Lost in Time)