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 the 2000s. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)"])
It 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 [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)"]) 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 [+]Loading...["The Day of the Clown (TV story)"])
In 2009, 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 [+]Loading...["The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Lost in Time (TV story)"])
Later that year, one edition of the Ealing Echo reported on stories about "Jordan love rat shock", a Labour backbencher, Lady Gaga, and an Aston Villa striker. The paper also reported that the weather was "partly cloudy". These were among the terms recited by the Automatons as they scanned the newspaper and learned the English language almost instantly. (TV: The Empty Planet [+]Loading...["The Empty Planet (TV story)"])
The Ealing Echo featured the headline "Fish Flingers" after an incident of raining fish. Unbeknownst to the paper, this phenomenon was caused by Hetocumtek. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Loading...["The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)"])