
The Framley Examiner

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.
Very little happens in Framley, so the highlights in the newspaper are the absurdist classified ads (for items such as second-hand Dachshund stabilizers, a child's Paul Simon costume, and a set of nested bunk beds that sleep eighteen progressively smaller people), firmly in the absurdist British comic tradition of "The Goon Show" and Monty Python. It has been noted that Framley and its surrounding villages are actually based upon the town of Chelmsford, Essex and surrounding settlements such as Writtle.
History.
The "Framley Examiner" originally began as a website, started in 2001.
Its success then spawned a book "The Framley Examiner" () described on the cover as "the book of the website of the newspaper".
A second book, "Historic Framley" (), was later published, produced in association with Framley Museum.
Its writers are regular contributors to "Viz" magazine. The book "Bollocks to Alton Towers" (), 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appeal via Unbound with the aim of publishing the now out-of-print Framley Examiner along with additional, previously unpublished material.