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==Illness and death== In December 2008, Hart was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, and returned to England with his wife Conny to seek continuing medical treatment.<ref>[http://www.blog.still-dancing.com/2009/05/tim-hart Photo] by [[Oliver Weber]] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609113620/http://www.blog.still-dancing.com/2009/05/tim-hart/ |date=9 June 2009 }}</ref> It was announced during Steeleye Span's 2009 winter tour that [[Park Records]] would be reissuing Hart's recordings of nursery rhymes to support him through his illness. He and his wife returned to their home in La Gomera in early December 2009, where he died peacefully in the early morning of 24 December 2009, aged 61.<ref name="Obit">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8435839.stm|title=Steeleye Span's Hart dies aged 61|date=31 December 2009|accessdate=12 May 2019|website=News.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> He was cremated at a private ceremony with half of his ashes being scattered over La Gomera, and the other half being returned to his family plot in [[St Albans]].
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