2006 In 2006 , following the expiration of the thirty year rule for official secrets , " The Zen Military " , Kadiatu Lethbridge - Stewart ' s exposé of the history of UNIT , was published . ( PROSE : " Set Piece " ) Iris Wildthyme had a driver ' s licence from 2006 . ( PROSE : " Gimme Shelter " ) Dated events . January - March . Circa 2006 , Owen Harper encountered Jack Harkness again at Katie Russell ' s graveside and was recruited by him as Torchwood Three ' s medical officer . ( TV : " Fragments " ) On 6 March 2006 , the Ninth Doctor returned Rose Tyler to her home in London . Due to a miscalculation , they arrived a year after late . Rose learnt that her mother , Jackie Tyler , had been searching for her ever since she left the previous year . At one point , she was believed murder ed and Mickey Smith had been a suspect . Big Ben was side - swiped by a UFO which crashed into the Thames . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) An " alien astronaut " from the UFO was taken to Albion Hospital , where the Doctor and Toshiko Sato examined it . " Doctor " Sato was working undercover for Torchwood Three , covering for Owen Harper , who was hungover on his first week working for Torchwood . ( TV : " Aliens of London " , " Exit Wounds " ) Most of the Earth ' s leading experts on aliens were killed , as was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) 10 Downing Street was destroyed by a harpoon missile targeted by Mickey Smith . The fortitude of backbench MP Harriet Jones during this crisis contributed to her ascent to power and the post of Prime Minister . Mickey Smith was asked by the Doctor to install a virus that would wipe out all references to him on the Internet . ( TV : " World War Three " ) Afterwards , the Slitheen skin suit of General R . Asquith was recovered from 10 Downing street and stored at the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum . ( GAME : " Security Bot " ) Harriet Jones became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) April - August . The Neanderthal Das was accidentally transported forward in time from 24 May 29 , 185 BC to Bromley in 2006 . Several weeks later , he and Anna Marie O ' Grady were married in Bromley . The Ninth Doctor , Rose and Jack attended their wedding . ( PROSE : " Only Human " ) In June , the article " " Down the Boozer with Iris and Panda " " by Iris Wildthyme was published in the magazine " Sounds " . ( PROSE : " Low / Profile " ) On 24 June , Edward Grainger died on his 100th birthday . ( PROSE : " Forgotten " ) September - December . In September , the Raxacoricofallapatorian Blon Fel - Fotch Passameer - Day Slitheen , posing as the human Margaret Blaine , mayor of Cardiff , plotted to blow up the Earth with the Blaidd Drwg nuclear power plant and the Cardiff Rift . This would let her escape on her extrapolator . The Ninth Doctor , Rose Tyler , Mickey Smith and Jack Harkness captured her , but she used a fallback plan to make the extrapolator latch onto the TARDIS ' energies ( having been parked directly on the Rift ) and still destroy Earth . The plan backfired and the Heart of the TARDIS opened up , regressing Blon to an egg . The Doctor and his companions returned Blon to Raxacoricofallapatorius to start a new life . ( TV : " Boom Town " ) At this moment there were no fewer than three versions of Harkness in Cardiff at different points in his timeline : the Jack travelling with the Doctor , an older Jack now operating Torchwood Three while keeping himself and his team in the Hub during these events ( PROSE : " The Twilight Streets " ) and a still older Jack in cryogenic freeze in the Torchwood vaults , unknown to the Torchwood Three team . ( TV : " Exit Wounds " ) On 22 September , on her 46th birthday , Tegan Jovanka was briefly reunited with the Fifth Doctor , who discovered that she had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour and had at most a year to live . Despite the Doctor ' s entreaty , Tegan chose to forgo his assistance in treating the tumour . She stated that she wished to remain on Earth because she was happy with the life that she had . She rekindled her relationship with Michael Tanaka . She had previously ended the relationship because of her tumour . ( AUDIO : " The Gathering " ) Mickey helped Rose to get back to the Ninth Doctor by connecting a truck to the Heart of the TARDIS to open it . In doing so , Rose allowed the Heart to get inside her head and pilot her to the Game Station in 200 , 100 . ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) On 23 November , retire d Torchwood agent Lucia Moretti , a former lover of Jack Harkness and mother of his daughter Alice Carter , died . ( TV : " " , AUDIO : " Red Skies " ) On 24 December , the Tenth Doctor recovered from his regeneration at the Powell Estate . The Sycorax intercepted Guinevere One and sent a threatening message to Earth . The Sycorax ship ' s pilot fish landed . The Doctor stopped them from taking his regeneration energy . Prime Minister Harriet Jones sought help from UNIT as the Doctor was still in bed . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) Also on this day , Daniel Thompson was struck by a vehicle and hospitalised at St Nicholas ' s Hospital in London . The Doctor , in his tenth incarnation , only older than his encounter with the Sycorax , shared an adventure with Daniel and spent time at St Nicholas ' s Hospital waiting for Daniel to recover . ( PROSE : " Deep and Dreamless Sleep " ) On 25 December , the Sycorax ship entered London airspace at around 0745 . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " , " Love & Monsters " ) The Sycorax used blood control on one third of Earth ' s population . Harriet Jones appeared on television to ask for the Doctor ' s help . The Doctor defeated the Sycorax leader , who was later killed after trying to sneak - attack the Doctor . In the battle the leader cut off the Doctor ' s hand , which grew back . The Torchwood Institute destroyed the retreating Sycorax ship at Harriet Jones ' orders . The Doctor regarded this as murder and engineered Jones ' spiral in the polls . Although the Earth had been visited and even invaded many times before by alien races , the Doctor told Rose the Sycorax event marked the first occasion that life beyond Earth became common knowledge , and that Earth itself was now becoming noticed by other worlds . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) Ursula Blake snapped a photo of the Tenth Doctor celebrating with Rose Tyler in London . Meanwhile , on the Internet , there began frantic speculation among conspiracy theorists as to what had really happened during the Sycorax invasion . She later posted the photo to her blog . ( TV : " Love & Monsters " ) Unknown dates . The Tenth Doctor visited St . Nicholas ' s Hospital , taking on the alias of a consultant . ( PROSE : " Deep and Dreamless Sleep " ) Idris Hopper recognised Jack Harkness and chased him . Seeing past its perception filter , he witnessed the invisible lift in action . An attempt to erase Idris ' memories with retcon in his dinner failed and Idris became angry with Jack because he thought he was poisoned . ( PROSE : " The Twilight Streets " ) The Seventh Doctor and Ruby Duvall stopped the Cybermen ' s attempt to conquer Earth by preventing the magnetic field reversal that would have created worldwide chaos under which the Cybermen planned to invade . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) Former teacher Oswald Danes was convicted of the rape and murder of twelve year old Susie Cabina . ( TV : " The New World " ) The First Doctor lost his TARDIS in a bet in Chicago . He and his companions Ian Chesterton , Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman were forced to travel 2 , 500 miles down Route 66 in a purple Oldsmobile 88 ( which the Doctor won in another bet ) to California in order to retrieve it . ( PROSE : " The Mother Road " ) The Sixth Doctor once watched the 2006 cricket Test Match between Australia and South Africa on the Time - Space Visualiser . ( AUDIO : " The Fourth Wall " ) Charles Cromwell died . ( PROSE : " Trace Memory " ) Behind the scenes . According to the Torchwood House website , the Torchwood House was open to the public between April and September in this year , although an exhibition called " House of History " was opened at the House during this time . officially opened the exhibit .