A spirit medium has spoken of her sixth sense as she releases a book on the 'gift' she has been given.

Rita Haworth’s book Ambassador For Spirit reveals the heart-break and trials the she has faced in her life including when her best friend was killed in a car accident to how she began seeing spirits.

The former lecturer from Horwich also details her most memorable encounters with spirits and reveals she was woken up by a light one day on the same evening her parents were involved in a car crash which almost killed them.

She said:" They had gone to Preston to see my grandma and were coming back and because of another car on a side road coming out, they swerved to miss it and hit a lamppost.

“This was the first time I had felt like something was going to happen.”

After the death of her best friend in a motorbike accident on Halliwell Road at just 17-years-old, Rita again saw the flashing lights in her bedroom.

She said: “I saw her materialise before me and she spoke to me.

“She said she as fine and was smiling and said that I would go on to help thousands of people, at that I laughed.”

Over the years, Rita began dabbling in tarot cards as a hobby, but she said that things she said about people would start to come true.

Rita suffered another loss in 1989 when her brother Glyn fell over at his home.

She said: “I have had communication with him since then multiple times and he is doing well in the spirit world.

“I work with a person’s aura, I can sense when it’s dense and that can increase when something is wrong.”

Rita is now retired but remains as busy as ever as she still sees three people a week and writes.

The book became one of the top sells for Amazon’s spiritualism section and can be ordered online now.

Rita’s book takes the reader through the spiritualism journey as she settles into retired life.