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Steve Houghton

Vogue magazine says sorry in framed letter to Cornish pub for same name legal threat

International magazine Vogue has apologised in a framed letter for getting it wrong and threating to sue a 200-year-old pub with the same name.

Condé Nast, the publication's owner, submitted legal action against The Star Inn at Vogue. But the hostelry in Cornwall, near Redruth, is more than two centuries old and the village of Vogue is even older.

The publisher's legal team in New York sent publicans Mark and Rachel Graham a "cease and desist" letter threatening them if they didn't stop using the name Vogue. The couple replied to Sabine Vandenbroucke, chief operating officer at the magazine, sparking an online storm.

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