York Magistrates Court A PERSISTENT offender who carried out a series of attacks on police officers and other crimes has been made subject to a criminal behaviour order. Damien Peter Goudy, 36, admitted 19 offences mostly committed in the city centre, York Magistrates Court heard. As well as obeying the criminal behaviour order and carrying out a community order, he has to pay a total of £400 in compensation to police officers, a member of the public and British Telecom. Goudy, of Thoresby Road, Acomb, pleaded guilty to six charges of assaulting emergency workers, all of whom were police officers, three public order offences, two charges of carrying a knife in public, two of failure to obey police orders to leave areas in the city centre, one of resisting police, one of criminal damage, one of stalking a woman, one of possessing cannabis and two of failure to attend court.
IT was more than the end of an era when the Willow closed its doors back in 2015. For die hard fans, York s night life never fully recovered after the Coney Street institution staged its last dance back in 2015. The Willow, accessed through a set of steep steps, was as unique a York experience as a walk on the bar walls or a visit to the Minster. Part Chinese restaurant, part late-night disco, generations had enjoyed a late night bop at the Willow alongside a bowl of chow mein or a dish of prawn crackers since 1973 when Tommy Fong took it over.
Ed Harrowsmith, investment director at Helmsley Group, which has purchased 3-7 Coney Street for an undisclosed sum. A YORK-based property specialist has bought several city centre retail units for an undisclosed sum. Helmsley Group has acquired numbers three to seven in Coney Street which are currently occupied by JD Sports, Lush, Mango, and the vacant unit previously home to Joe’s Kitchen. Business will continue as usual for the existing tenants, and Helmsley are currently looking for a hospitality occupier for the former Joe’s Kitchen site. The properties were bought off market from M&G, the London-based asset management company, in a major investment boost for the city centre.
Was Leak & Thorp really the Selfridges of York ? IT was a York retailing landmark and arguably the jewel in the crown of Coney Street for over a century. Our photo from the York Press archive today shows department store Leak & Thorp, dating from the late 1980s just before it closed. In recent years, the units have been occupied by Next, Monsoon, and River Island. Leak & Thorp began life on March 11, 1848, when William Leak opened premises at 35 Parliament Street. He began with just one or two assistants. In 1869, the shop moved to Coney Street, to a new building put up on the site of The George.
Was Leak & Thorp really the Selfridges of York ? IT was a York retailing landmark and arguably the jewel in the crown of Coney Street for over a century. Our photo from the York Press archive today shows department store Leak & Thorp, dating from the late 1980s just before it closed. In recent years, the units have been occupied by Next, Monsoon, and River Island. Leak & Thorp began life on March 11, 1848, when William Leak opened premises at 35 Parliament Street. He began with just one or two assistants. In 1869, the shop moved to Coney Street, to a new building put up on the site of The George.