BBC rugby commentator Nigel Starmer-Smith has today paid tribute today to his young son who died earlier this week from a rare form of cancer.
Julian, 19, a former pupil at Radley College, near Abingdon, was taken ill just six weeks ago while skiing in Canada and died on Tuesday from Non-Hodgkin's T-cell lymphoma in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
It is the second tragedy to strike the commentator's family - nine years ago his 19-year-old daughter Charlotte died from a similar disease.
Julian, who was due to read Italian at Bristol University later this year, will be buried next to his sister close to the family home in Dunsden, near Henley, next Thursday.
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