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
William John Hooper also formed a studio of artists to create animations for BBC programmes. He produced a strip cartoon for The Star newspaper before returning to television as, first, an artist and later a presenter. He was also worked for several years as a columnist for the Sunday Pictorial. His wife Noelle died in 1979. His son, John Hooper, is a journalist and author. William John Hooper William John ‘Bill’ Hooper (21 August 191614 October 1996) was a British cartoonist. He is best remembered as the creator of the wartime comic character Percy Prune. Hooper was educated at a boarding school in