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A letter of complaint to The Ritz (the hotel, not the Yorkshire music venue)

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Shaun Usher
Feb 23, 2022
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The Police (not the band).

In 2017, a small music venue in Yorkshire named ‘The Ritz’ regretfully announced that it had no option but to close and rebrand, having been threatened with legal action by the famously opulent London hotel with which it shared its name. Before long—on this day in 2017, as it happens—the following letter of complaint reached th…

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