A TRIBUTE has been paid by the Evesham Arts Centre to star medium, Colin Fry, who died last week at the age of 53.

Mr Fry, who had reached a wide television audience through the Living TV show, The Sixth Sense, had also performed in Evesham and was set to appear again.

But this April, Mr Fry was diagnosed as being terminally ill with lung cancer and he died on August 25.

A press spokesman for the Evesham Arts Centre, Neal Cartwright, said: "Colin Fry first came to Evesham Arts Centre in May 2014 and was very popular - all tickets for the show sold out three months in advance and it was very well received.

"Days before his return for a second sell-out show in May 2015, Colin was taken ill and the show was delayed until June. Despite the seriousness of his condition Colin was determined that the show should go on. Sadly both the June date and then another on July 29 had to be cancelled as treatment took up more time and his condition deteriorated."

Mr Cartwright added: "Colin was obviously held in great affection by his many fans. Despite their bookings to see him being delayed or cancelled at short notice, his audience went out of their way to wish him well and some even offered to donate their ticket refunds to his charities. As a theatre, we can't help but respect a performer so determined to appear in such grim circumstances."

Mr Fry's career was a medium was not without controversy.

In 1992 he was allegedly "exposed" when, during a séance in Norfolk, the lights were unexpectedly turned on and he was allegedly seen holding a trumpet in the air: an instrument which many in the audience believed was being levitated by spirits.

But during live performances before audiences, his knowledge of the deceased relatives he claimed to be in contact with often seemed to far exceed the capabilities of basic "cold reading" techniques, leading many to accept that he possessed psychic gifts.