YORK city centre at 3pm on Wednesday afternoon was an odd mix of busy and quiet; like a sleeping giant just beginning to awaken from a long slumber A few ‘essential’ shops - shops like Boots and Barnitts - were open. And outside Stam and Maria’s cafe on the corner of Parliament Street and Shambles market, a polite, socially distanced queue had formed for takeaway coffee. But the crowds were thin, and the people who had been drawn to the city centre were wandering around in a lost, aimless sort of way - the way people do in a normally busy city centre where most things are closed.