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<!--Note that if a future editor decides inline sourcing is preferable, be aware of the "over a period of two years" part. Billy did not start investigating the disappearances in the same year HE disappeared.-->At some point in the [[2000s]],{{ref|While ''[[Blink (TV story)|Blink]]'' itself uncontroversially sets its main setting in [[2007]] and "twenty minutes to [[Red Hatching]]" a year later in [[2008]]—as [[Kathy Nightingale]]'s letter describes taking "one breath in 2007 and the next in [[1920]]", and the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s side of his conversation with [[Sally Sparrow]] in [[1969]] happens 38 years before Sally says hers—these are contradicted by heavily conflicting dates in the ''[[Redacted (audio series)|Redacted]]'' audio series later on regarding both Kathy's disappearance and the Red Hatching. In ''[[Angels (audio story)|Angels]]'', [[Abby McPhail]] identifies 2008 as the year of Kathy's disappearance, which suggests [[2009]] as the year of the Red Hatching. In ''[[Salvation (audio story)|Salvation]]'', the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] recognises the Red Hatching as the cause of death of [[Andy Proctor]], who was last seen by his daughter [[Cleo Proctor|Cleo]] "nearly 20 years" before [[2022]] according to ''[[Recruits (audio story)|Recruits]]''.}} London [[police]], including DI [[Billy Shipton]], began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called [[Wester Drumlins]] over a period of two years. The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared, at one point taking a [[the Doctor's TARDIS|police box]] from the scene. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink (TV story)|Blink]]'')

In the 2000s,{{ref|The present day of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]''{{'}}s [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|fourth series]] is [[Aliens of London dating controversy|not consistently dated]], with [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'' setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in [[2008]], and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'' setting them in about [[April]] to [[June]] [[2009]].}} [[Adipose pill]]s were distributed all over London. Later, thousands of young [[Adipose]] were born and [[March of the Adipose|marched]] along the streets of London. A [[nursery ship]] took the Adipose away. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'')

During Easter,{{ref|Both ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' and ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'', which is set in either [[2008]], according to [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'', or six weeks after the middle of [[May]] [[2009]], circa [[June]], according to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]''. However, the year of ''Planet of the Dead'' is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the [[Easter]] immediately after ''Journey's End''.}} a [[wormhole]] measuring nearly 10 kilometres high appeared in a tunnel in London. It led to the planet [[San Helios]]. At this time several members of [[Stingray|an unidentified race]] tried to cross over to the Earth through the wormhole. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'')