Swampy
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Daniel Hooper, known as Swampy, is a United Kingdom environmental protester, or eco-warrior. He belonged to a variety of protest groups including the A30 Exeter to Honiton Protest and Fairmile Road Camp.
He became a nationally known figure after spending a week in a complex series of tunnels dug in the path of a new extension to the A30 road in Fairmile, resisting attempts at eviction by police. Several people took part in the protest, but Swampy was the last one evicted. Swampy was originally from Newbury, Berkshire, the site of the protest over the Newbury bypass in 1996.
Swampy's subsequent fame included an appearance on the BBC comedy current affairs quiz Have I Got News for You, where he became (briefly) the show's youngest ever panellist. He later took part in another tunnel protest intended to prevent the building of a second runway at Manchester Airport, and has also been involved with the Trident nuclear submarine protest camp at Faslane, Scotland.
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- Salon.com - article from 1997.
- Log of Swampy's A30 protest
- BBC about the Manchester Airport protest
- Another article about Manchester Airport
- Third Battle of Newbury in the press
- Guardian - Whatever happened to Swampy? (2003)
- Guardian - Whatever happened to ... Swampy? (2006)
- Tech Central Station - Sod Off, Swampy.
- CBRD biography
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