Editing Curfew (section)

===United Kingdom===
The [[United Kingdom]]'s 2003 Anti-Social Behaviour Act created zones that allow police from 9&nbsp;pm to 6&nbsp;am to hold and escort home unaccompanied minors under the age of 16, whether badly behaved or not. Although hailed as a success,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/5405822.stm|title=BBC NEWS – UK – England – Wear – Late night youth curfew a success|work=bbc.co.uk|date=4 October 2006}}</ref> the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] ruled in one particular case that the law did not give the police a power of arrest, and officers could not force someone to come with them. On appeal the court of appeal held that the act gave police powers to escort minors home only if they are involved in, or at risk from, actual or imminently anticipated bad behaviour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/media/press/2006/court-judgment-on-governments-anti-yob-anti-child-policy.php|title=Court Judgment on Government's 'Anti-Yob'/ Anti-Child Policy|work=liberty-human-rights.org.uk|access-date=20 March 2011|archive-date=27 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927060611/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/media/press/2006/court-judgment-on-governments-anti-yob-anti-child-policy.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In a few towns in the United Kingdom, the [[curfew bell]] is still rung as a continuation of the medieval tradition where the bell used to be rung from the [[parish church]] to guide travelers safely towards a town or village as darkness fell, or when bad weather made it difficult to follow trackways and for the villagers to extinguish their lights and fires as a safety measure to combat accidental fires. Until 1100 it was against the law to burn any lights after the ringing of the curfew bell. In Morpeth, the curfew is rung each night at 8&nbsp;pm from [[Morpeth Clock Tower]]. In [[Chertsey]], it is rung at 8&nbsp;pm, from [[Michaelmas]] to [[Lady Day]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stpeterschertsey.org.uk/bells/curfew.htm|title=St. Peter's Shared Church Chertsey|work=stpeterschertsey.org.uk|date=12 March 2015}}</ref> A short story concerning the Chertsey curfew, set in 1471, and entitled "[[Blanche Heriot]]. A legend of old [[Chertsey]] Church" was published by Albert Richard Smith in 1843, and formed a basis for the poem "[[Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight]]". At Castleton in the Peak District, the curfew is rung from Michaelmas to Shrove Tuesday.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peaklandheritage.org.uk/index.asp?peakkey=31002121|title=peak district local history, customs, wildlife, transport – Peakland Heritage|work=peaklandheritage.org.uk|access-date=15 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227100324/http://www.peaklandheritage.org.uk/index.asp?peakkey=31002121|archive-date=27 December 2008}}</ref> At Wallingford in Oxfordshire, the curfew bell continues to be rung at 9&nbsp;pm rather than 8&nbsp;pm which is a one-hour extension granted by [[William the Conqueror]] as the Lord of the town was a Norman sympathiser. However, none of these curfew bells serves its original function.

====Northern Ireland====

During [[the Troubles]] in [[Northern Ireland]], the [[British Army]] made an attempt to search for illegal items secretly held by [[Official Irish Republican Army|Official IRA]] (OIRA) and the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] (IRA) in [[Falls Road, Belfast]], a predominantly [[Irish Catholics|Catholic]] neighbourhood. The operation, which became known as the [[Falls Curfew]], took place from 3 to 5 July 1970, with British troops carrying out searches. As it ended, local youths attacked the soldiers, who responded by deploying [[riot control]] tactics; the confrontation quickly developed into a series of gunfights between the British Army and the IRA. After four hours, the Army sealed off the area and imposed a 36-hour curfew, carrying out more searches and recovering 96 weapons before the operation ended. Ultimately, 4 civilians were killed, 78 wounded and 337 arrested. 18 soldiers were also wounded. The curfew was later found to be illegal and no further attempts to impose curfews were made during the Troubles.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/12/24/news/rules-around-post-christmas-curfew-still-being-drafted-2169596/|title=Police to have powers to enforce post-Christmas curfew|first=Claire|last=Simpson|date=24 December 2020|website=The Irish News}}</ref>

During the [[COVID-19 in Northern Ireland|2020–21 coronavirus pandemic]], a curfew was imposed between Christmas 2020 and New Years 2021, 8 p.m. to 6&nbsp;am, to reduce contagion.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/12/19/news/post-christmas-lockdown-will-see-curfew-for-a-week-2165316/|title=Post-Christmas lockdown will see 'curfew' for a week|first=Claire|last=Simpson|date=19 December 2020|website=The Irish News}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>