Eco-zealot teacher jailed for blocking road

A teacher who helped bring rush-hour traffic chaos to the heart of London’s financial sector has been jailed for five weeks. Louise Lancaster, 57, along with Julie Mecoli, 68, Stefania Morosi, 45, and history professor Nicholas Till, 67, blocked traffic as part of an Insulate Britain protest on Upper Thames Street on 25 October 2021. Lancaster, of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, Mecoli, of Canterbury, Kent, Morosi, of Ealing, West London and Till, of Islington, denied but were convicted of causing a public…