The Framley Examiner

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The Framley Examiner
Type of site
  • Newspaper parody
  • Humor website
Available inEnglish
URL framleyexaminer.com
Launched2001

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.

Contents

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appeal via Unbound with the aim of publishing the now out-of-print Framley Examiner along with additional, previously unpublished material.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]

Contributors

Places

Framley and district

St Eyot's and district

Molford and district

Sockford and district

Whoft and district

Outlying districts

Running jokes

See also

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References

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