Number Ten Pays Tribute to UNIT (short story)

Number 10 pays tribute to UNIT, prefixed as PRESS STATEMENT: Number 10 pays tribute to UNIT on the story's page, was the ninth short story and thirteenth release published exclusively on the U.N.I.T. website on 23 April 2005Number Ten Pays Tribute to UNIT on unit.org.uk via the Wayback Machine by the BBC webteam to coincide with the broadcast of World War Three. Number Ten pays tribute to UNIT was the sixth release in the UNIT Press Briefings series of in-universe press briefings.
This short story was set concurrently with another, Number Ten.
== Plot ==
In a press briefing embargoed until 08:00 on 26 May, filed by Corp C Powers, it is reported that acting Prime Minister Harriet Jones has paid tribute to the deceased experts from UNIT in the recent terrorist attack that destroyed 10 Downing Street.
== Characters ==
* Harriet Jones
* Corp C Powers
== Worldbuilding ==
* Jones uses the expression that the lost UNIT staff could "smell a rat".
== Notes ==
* While never stated, the date of the embargoed press briefing, 26 May, seems to imply that the events of Aliens of London and World War Three take place on their respective air dates as opposed the date given in those stories - March. However, given the ambiguity of the setting, one could rationalise the discrepancy by imagining that the press briefing was simply embargoed for over a month.
== Continuity ==
* 10 Downing Street was actually destroyed by a Harpoon missile sent by Mickey Smith and Harriet Jones. (TV: World War Three)
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== Footnotes ==
=== Notes ===
=== Sources ===
Category:UNIT Press Briefings short stories
Category:Sources set in 2006