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The Examiner was a daily British newspaper. The logo of the paper was the silhouette of a unicorn. Also available was the Cardiff Examiner, which featured stories local to the Cardiff area.
John Smith was given a copy of The Examiner by Martha Jones to show him that the date was Monday November 10th 1913. This edition featured an article on health and nutrition. (TV: Human Nature [+]Paul Cornell, adapted from Human Nature (Paul Cornell), Doctor Who series 3 (BBC One, 2007).)
In 1926, the Tenth Doctor took a copy of The Examiner from Hugh Curbishley in order to check the date. He discovered it was the same date on which Agatha Christie was to disappear. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp [+]Gareth Roberts, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)
In 2007, the paper's reporter Atif told his editor that he had a story so big, he thought it would be the story of the century: the story of Torchwood. She asked him to get the story for her, and so the reporter passed secret envelopes and looked through files and photos, several of which featured the Doctor. Atif was sure that Torchwood went back as far as Queen Victoria, right up to the explosion on Christmas Day and was connected with the ghosts that had recently appeared.
He then returned to his editor with his findings, only to be told that there had been "complications", and was dragged off by several mysterious men. Meanwhile, another man talked to the editor, and said that Torchwood thanked her for her cooperation, before leaving her with a replacement front page story about GCSE results. (WC: Tardisode 12 [+]Gareth Roberts, Tardisodes series 2 (2006).)
In the 2000s[nb 1] the paper was priced at 50p per copy. At least two copies appeared on a police evidence board in Cardiff. One had the headline "GRAN STABBED IN FRONT OF TELLY". (TV: Everything Changes [+]Russell T Davies, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006).)
Footnotes[]
- ↑ Episodes 1-10 of the first series of Torchwood are set anywhere from 2006-2009 as a result of conflicting evidence shown in the episodes Ghost Machine [+]Helen Raynor, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)., Greeks Bearing Gifts [+]Toby Whithouse, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)., Random Shoes [+]Jacquetta May, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)., To the Last Man [+]Helen Raynor, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Two, 2008)., Reset [+]J. C. Wilsher, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Three, 2008)., Adrift [+]Chris Chibnall, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Three, 2008)., Fragments [+]Chris Chibnall, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Three, 2008)., Exit Wounds [+]Chris Chibnall, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Two, 2008)., and The New World [+]Russell T Davies, Torchwood series 4 (Starz, 2011).. As episode 10, Out of Time [+]Catherine Tregenna, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)., is set at the end of December, this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.