For the past month, Blue Sandford has been holed up in a muddy tunnel 15 ft beneath the ground, resisting eviction by bailiffs. ‘I put the crime in criminal,’ she defiantly wrote on her Instagram page alongside a selfie of herself and her brother Lazer huddled together in an underground chamber below London’s Euston station. … Read more
‘Swampy’ is branded ‘reckless and irresponsible,’ for allowing his son, 16, to stay with him in makeshift tunnels underneath Euston Square Gardens High Speed 2 protesters have constructed tunnels under Euston Square Gardens Veteran eco-warrior Dan ‘Swampy’ Hooper, is one of five people below ground Swampy has been branded ‘reckless’ for bringing his son Rory, … Read more
Swampy, the leader of Euston Five tunnellers holed up below London protesting HS2, admitted today ‘I never thought I’d do this again’. The veteran activist, 48, is among the gang currently hiding in the ground campaigning against the £98billion high-speed railway. He has been underground with Dr Larch Maxey, 48, and Scott ‘Scotty’ Breen, 47, … Read more
Hold your noses, everyone. Swampy’s back in town. Dressed like a jumble sale version of a dodgy children’s television entertainer, he’s turned up in London at a protest against the HS2 railway line. Swampy and his tree-hugging mates have dug themselves in on a patch of land outside Euston Station. And when I say ‘dug … Read more
Bailiffs abseiling from a crane removed veteran eco-warrior ‘Swampy’ from a bamboo tower today built to delay construction on HS2. Protesters erected the tower holding British activist Dan Hooper, 47, in a London river to block a bridge for a road through a forest for the multi-billion pound train project. Two black-clad officials suspended from … Read more
Veteran eco-warrior Swampy has been charged with aggravated trespass after being hauled by police from a 26 metre high tree house on the proposed route of the High Speed 2 rail line. He and seven other protesters had set up camp in The Beech tree in the 1.8 hectare Jones’ Hill Wood, between Wendover and Great … Read more
Police in riot gear today clambered up a treehouse to arrest eco-warrior Swampy where he had been protesting against the HS2 high-speed rail line with eight other activists. The activist, real name Daniel Hooper, was handcuffed and led away by five officers this afternoon before being put into a police van at Jones’ Hill Wood, … Read more
The 16-year-old son of veteran eco-warrior ‘Swampy’ has joined his father in a sit-in protest against the HS2 rail line after the activist returned to the front line of environmental activism after a ‘quiet ten years’. The activist, real name Daniel Hooper, has been joined joined an HS2 rebellion group along with son Rory which … Read more