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Ekin Karasin

Gardeners' World star's children share heartbreak after his death at 67 from rare disease

A Gardeners’ World contributor’s children have shared a heartbreaking tribute to their father after his death at 67.

David J.C. Austin, the chairman of David Austin Roses, died at his Shropshire home after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and incurable neurological condition that causes brain damage.

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