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It’s Just Not Our Cup Of Coffee! London Cafe Ordered To Take Down ‘Offensive’ Sign

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F***offee on Bermondsey Street/Google

A coffee shop in South London has been ordered to remove its ‘offensive’ sign by the landlord.

F***offee in Bermondsey Street tweeted a picture of a letter sent by lawyers threatening to destroy the sign if they did not remove it.

Acting on behalf of the buildings owners, the legal letter said: “We are instructed that you have either erected or allowed your sub-tenant to erect an offensive sign on the exterior of the building…without the permission or authority of our client and this constitutes a trespass.

“If you or your sub-tenant do not immediately remove the sign above the property shop front ‘F***offee’, and make good any damage caused to the exterior of the building, our client will have no option but to remove the sign themselves or issue court proceedings seeking an injunction requiring you to remove the sign.”

F***offee posted the photograph alongside the caption: “No humour please, we’re British.”

The legal action comes following complaints from local residents.

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A copy of the lawyers’ letter tweeted by the store/F***offee Twitter

Southwark Councillor Damian O'Brien told The Evening Standard that a few local people had reported the sign to police.

“They police don’t feel that there’s enough evidence to proceed,” he said. “If the word had started with a C, that would have been an entirely different case altogether. At the end of the day it’s a case of: ‘How liberal are you?’

“If they’d taken the K away it would have been more clever,” he added. “One of my ward colleagues tried to have a word with the manager who told him to rack off. I have to say I’m more relaxed.

“It sounds like a bit of a storm in a coffee cup, but I think the shop owner is being ridiculously uncompromising.”

He added: “I’m not a coffee drinker but they do a very good hot chocolate.”

However, supporters of the cafe have already started a petition in a show of support.

The petition states: “They have had a few anally retentive and gormless people complain about their name and now they have their money grabbing corporate landlord demand they take the sign down as it is deemed to be ‘offensive.’

“We, the undersigned, confirm we have a sense of humour and find the continued attack on our beloved F***offee an insult to freedom of expression, freedom of speech and humour.”