The Framley Examiner

The Framley Examiner
Type of site	Newspaper parody; Humor website;
Available in	English
URL	framleyexaminer.com
Launched	2001

The Framley Examiner is a parody of a newspaper in a small provincial English town, created as a website and later a book. It is written by Robin Halstead, Jason Hazeley, Alex Morris and Joel Morris.

History

The Framley Examiner originally began as a website, started in 2001.^[1]^[2] Its success then spawned a book The Framley Examiner (ISBN 0-7181-4579-8)^[1]^[3] described on the cover as "the book of the website of the newspaper". A second book, Historic Framley (ISBN 0-14-101528-4), was later published, being described as "produced in association with Framley Museum".

Its writers are regular contributors to Viz magazine. The book Bollocks to Alton Towers (ISBN 0-7181-4791-X), published in April 2005, by the same authors, is a non-fiction book unrelated to The Framley Examiner. The website was last updated on 23 July 2013, but more recent posts have been made to social media accounts.

In May 2020, the Framley Examiner website was updated to reveal the launch of a crowd-funding appeal via Unbound with the aim of publishing the now out-of-print Framley Examiner along with additional, previously unpublished material.^[4]

The father of Joel and Alex Morris worked as a local journalist in Chelmsford, Essex, but the group have dismissed any connection of Framley to the town, saying that "It wasn't meant to be targeting one particular rag."^[1]

Places

Framley and district

Framley
Wripple
Codge
Chipney
Batley
The Dungeon Housing Estate, which has more single fathers than there are grains of sand in the mighty desert
Clown
Glibley
Durbiton
Shilillingbury Lillingbury Illingbury On Ingbury
Thoxtoxeter
Effing Sodbury^[1]
Ovenly
Bellaire, home of the Bellaire Hillock.
Princes Freshborough (these last two are a reference to the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)

St Eyot's and district

St Eyot's, whose historic castle is thought to be the home of Britain's first batman
Slovenly^[1]
Urling
Fracton
Clinton
Flapton Nogley
Stanglebridge
Yopney St Oh!
Queff
Gartside Green

Molford and district

Molford
Molford St Gavin
Molford St Malcolm
Molford St Arahim Rhamal^[1]
Robot Oak, a utopian village constructed of artificial materials and populated by robots
Ghastley St Matthew
Crème
Tellephant
Strawbury Magma
Diesel Park West

Sockford and district

Sockford holds an annual Vulture Jamboree in which visitors are invited to 'Discover how to Milk Vultures' and could meet Lazenby, Framley's biggest Hedgehog (until he died of prickleworm)
Lessbury Moreborough

Whoft and district

Whoft, which frequently suffered deluges of fluff, and was famous for its annual fete (featuring the 'Kitten in a Bottle' competition) until being completely destroyed by property developers due to a planning error.
Wotten Plodney^[1]
Queues Likely
Little Godley, controlled by councillor Haris Paris, who mounted a military coup in late 1994 after someone parked a blue P Reg Mondeo in his allocated parking space.
Chutney^[1]
King's Mustard
Clifton James
Steeplecocque

Outlying districts

Carnaby Constable
Cloxted
Rockney
Hazeldean Inchmistress
Billberry Buryborry
Nyth

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Steiner, Susie (26 October 2002). "Local heroes". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
↑ Framleyexaminer.com website shows the domain first active in July 2001, with the first content pages being added several months later
↑ Smith, Jodie (27 February 2016). "The fake stories hitting the headlines - BBC News". BBC. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
↑ "The Framley Examiner". The Framley Examiner. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

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