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Quakers in Britain has said the arrests for conspiracy to cause a public nuisance, were the first at a meeting house "in living memory".

Causing a public nuisance also became a potential crime – providing the police with a powerful new tool to use against protestors who block roads.

Daniel Day, 29, of Palmerston Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, has been charged with causing a public nuisance and trespassing on a protected site after climbing onto the clock tower, the Metropolitan Police said.

Despite their contributions to the war effort and their generally downtrodden postwar status, they were widely viewed as a public nuisance.

The five protesters were convicted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court of conspiracy to intentionally cause a public nuisance.