Fairmile, Devon Allercombe), included a number of tree houses and networks of underground tunnels and bunkers. The occupants of the camps were eventually evicted in January 1997 by Bailiffs acting for the Under-Sheriff of Devon, accompanied by specialist climbing and caving experts. This was amid considerable national publicity, and led to the temporary celebrity status of the final occupant of one the Fairmile tunnels, Daniel Hooper, known by his nickname 'Swampy'. Fairmile, Devon Fairmile is a hamlet in the English county of Devon. It lies on the former A30 trunk road approximately west of Honiton, where this road crosses the Talaton to
John Hooper (journalist) to fellow journalist, Lucinda Evans. John Hooper (journalist) John Edward Francis Hooper (born 17 July 1950, Westminster, London, England) is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He is currently the Italy and Vatican correspondent of "The Economist". Son of the artist and writer William John ('Bill') Hooper ("Raff") (1916–1996 ), John Hooper was educated at St Benedict's School in London and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In his first year at university, he travelled to the breakaway state of Biafra to help make a television documentary on the Nigerian Civil war. After graduating, Hooper worked for the BBC as a current