The Framley Examiner is a parody of a newspaper in a small provincial English town, created as a website and later a book.
The Framley Examiner originally began as a website, started in 2001.
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appeal via Unbound with the aim of publishing the now out-of-print Framley Examiner along with additional, previously unpublished material.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.