2005 The year 2005 was most significant for being the year when central London was attacked by the Nestene Consciousness . It was also the year that Rose Tyler joined the Ninth Doctor on his travels . ( TV : " Rose " ) The FLIPback Project began at the Snowcap Base , at Earth ' s South Pole , to counter the predicted reversal of the Earth ' s magnetic field in 2006 . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) According to one account , London ' s cabs were replaced with motorcycles to relieve the increasing traffic congestion . ( PROSE : " " ) Other accounts stated that London kept its taxis . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " et al ) Dated events . January - June . On 1 January 2005 , Rose Tyler encountered a man who predicted she would have a great year . Unbeknownst to her , he was the tenth incarnation of the Doctor , whom she had not yet met in her personal timeline . After she left , the Doctor succumbed to radiation poisoning and staggered towards his TARDIS , encouraged by a vision of Ood Sigma . After dematerialising the TARDIS , he regenerated into his eleventh incarnation . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) On 4 March , ( AUDIO : " One Rule " ) the Ninth Doctor was in London pursuing the Nestene Consciousness . His investigations took him to the Henrik ' s department store , where he saved Rose Tyler from an Auton attack . He blew up the building . The following day , Rose investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor , talking to conspiracy theorist Clive Finch about his website on the Doctor at whoisdoctorwho . co . uk . Rose ' s boyfriend , Mickey , was abducted by Autons and replaced with an Auton duplicate . Using the head of this Auton , the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness ' signal . It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in . Rose rescued Mickey ( and later , the Doctor ) and destroyed the Consciousness with anti - plastic . She joined the Doctor on his travels . Meanwhile , Clive was kill ed by the Autons as they assaulted London . ( TV : " Rose " , " Aliens of London " ) Elton Pope was also out shopping in the city centre at the time and survived the attack . ( TV : " Love & Monsters " ) The invasion , which would be subsequently covered up as a ' terrorist attack ' , had spread to at least Cardiff where the city centre was brought to its knees as Barry Jackson used it as a cover for his murder of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff , Roy Llewellyn . ( AUDIO : " One Rule " ) Ellie Oswald , the mother of Clara Oswald and the wife of Dave Oswald , died on that day at the age of 44 . As well as her husband and daughter , her funeral was attended by the Eleventh Doctor . ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) Shortly after the invasion , an Auton head that was recovered from the Queen ' s Arcade shopping centre , the garbage bin that swallowed Mickey , and a secondary bomb discovered in Henrik ' s were taken and stored in the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum . ( GAME : " Security Bot " ) The Wednesday after Rose ' s departure , Jackie got a phone call from Rose , who was using the superphone from the year 5 , 000 , 000 , 000 . Rose made a brief return trip to her own time , ( TV : " The End of the World " ) but promptly disappeared until 2006 . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) For the rest of 2005 , Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler . He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early 2006 . Jackie Tyler fueled the mistrust of him around the Powell Estate with a " whisper campaign . " Understandably , Jackie devoted considerable time to the search for her " missing " daughter . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) On 22 March , the North Eastern Daily Press reported that Sharonda Arkley had shot four of her colleagues and put their bodies in caves along Blackhall Rocks . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) Angola suffered from an epidemic of the Marburg virus in early 2005 , with a British news broadcast on 26 March reporting that the death toll had risen to 120 . ( AUDIO : " One Rule " ) As recounted by the Eighth Doctor , the European Cup final was won by Liverpool , led by Steven Gerrard , who triumphed over A . C . Milan despite being 3 - 0 down at half time , having scored three goals in the second half before going on to win the match , marking Liverpool ' s fifth win of the European Cup in its history . ( AUDIO : " Something Inside " ) July - December . In November , a " Crimewatch " episode on the Blackhall Rocks Multiple Murder was broadcast . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) On 22 December , while in her aunt ' s house in Devon , Sally Sparrow tore off a piece of wallpaper , revealing a message from 1985 asking for help . After later finding a photograph with the Ninth Doctor asking to look through the wallpaper again , she found another message leading her to play a video recording of the Doctor in 1985 , the Doctor communicating to Sally through already having the conversation from Sally ' s uncompleted Christmas homework . The Doctor explained that the TARDIS had " burped " forward in time twenty years and needed Sally ' s help . Sally ' s future self appeared , telling Sally to hit the TARDIS reset button to reach the Doctor . The Doctor told Sally to finish her homework detailing this conversation and the messages left to her first , which she did . Sally then piloted the TARDIS to the Doctor to rescue him . ( PROSE : " What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow " ) Unknown dates . In 2005 , the annual de - frosting of Tommy Brockless , a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in 1918 , took place inside Torchwood Three . ( TV : " To the Last Man " ) The Eighth Doctor and Destrii defeated a plot by highly advanced Cybermen to convert the population of Earth using modified rain . MI6 ' s headquarters was massacred in the process , allowing Patrick Lake to rise up the hierarchy and pitch the outer - space branch " Wonderland " . ( COMIC : " The Flood " , " Hunters of the Burning Stone " ) The magazine " Der Spiegel " gave away a personal organiser with every issue . ( PROSE : " Transit " ) The FLIPback Project began at the Snowcap Base at Earth ' s South Pole at the same time that the Cybermen left over from the attack on Earth in December 1986 again became active . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) London police , including DI Billy Shipton , began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called Wester Drumlins . The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared , at one point taking a police box from the scene . ( TV : " Blink " ) Owen Harper ' s fiancée , Katie Russell , who had been diagnosed with the youngest ever case of early - onset Alzheimer ' s , was put into surgery after she was found to have a growth in her brain . The tumour was actually an alien parasite . It released deadly gas during the operation , killing Katie and the medical staff . Owen encountered Captain Jack Harkness , who recovered Katie ' s brain and erased the video evidence of what had happened . ( TV : " Fragments " ) The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller foiled a Quitoxin Spy ' s plan to take control of Little Morton . ( AUDIO : " The Young Lions " ) In 2005 , Phil Tyson was taken on board the Vandosian ship to be executed for the crimes of Shogalath , whom the Vandos Tribunal believed Phil was the reincarnation of . Phil escaped with the Ninth Doctor and Rose into the TARDIS . Through the Doctor ' s meddling , the ship , aiming for Great Britain , had its weapons backfire , destroying it . ( COMIC : " Mr Nobody " ) Alternate timelines . The Doctor visited Luminos in an alternate 2005 . ( PROSE : " Spiral Scratch " ) Behind the scenes . A number of contain details about 2005 . UNIT website . On 25 January , a memorial service was held at UNIT HQ for those who died 35 years earlier during Project : Waxwork . On 31 January , UNIT released the news that 13 of their soldiers had died while investigating extreme chemical pollution in . The leader of the expedition , Captain Martin Berry , stated that the men had " died heroically saving the local population " . On 12 February , UNIT announced that they would be increasing their presence in New York . On 27 February , Martin Berry was promoted to Major and took command of Geneva B Company . On 10 March , UNIT released a statement warning about a file - sharing virus called " RUFFCUT " . The statement urged that nobody download any pirate material from the internet as it might be contaminated with the virus . At the time , the virus had shut down a hosptial and three government departments across Europe and brought traffic systems in Lisbon " to a halt " . On 26 March , UNIT released a comment on the then recent Auton invasion of London . The statement attempted to discredit any thoughts that the attackers were extraterrestrial and stated that tests had revealed the attackers were composed of ordinary plastic . The statement ended by suggesting that the attackers were either members of a terrorist organisation wearing disguises or " specially modified robots under the remote - control by an unconventional aggressor " . Whoisdoctorwho . co . uk . During the Auton invasion in March , Clive Finch , the webmaster of Whoisdoctorwho . co . uk was killed . Shortly afterwards , Mickey Smith contacted his wife Maggie and asked if he could assume Clive ' s mantle . A week after the Auton attack , Mickey posted his first article on the website : " The Doctor was involved in the dummy massacre " . In the article , he mentioned that Rose Tyler had been missing since the massacre and asked people to report if they had seen Rose since . The next week was horrible for Mickey , he was questioned multiple times by the police and each time they refused to believe him that the Doctor was responsible for Rose ' s disappearance . A week after posting his first article , Mickey posted another one . He showed a photo sent to him by Dorothy Stokes of Charles Dickens in 1869 with the Ninth Doctor and Rose in the background . Once again , he asked people to report any sightings of the Doctor and Rose . Mickey also mentioned that MP Joseph Green had recently put on a suspicious amount of weight . After this post , Mickey took an almost year - long break from Whoisdoctorwho . co . uk . Torchwood website . On 20 July , an interview with Bilis Manger was released in a Cardiff newspaper . Torchwood Three had this interview in their files on Manger .