AN Alan Ayckbourn murder mystery is the next Lancaster Footlights offering at the city's Grand Theatre.

It Could be Any One of Us will be staged from Tuesday to Saturday next week, September 14 to 18, at 7.30pm nightly.

The play follows the fate of a family of artistic misfits with plenty of screams, laughs and murder most foul and with a possibility of a different murderer every night even the actors do not know whodunnit until the last moment.

The production is directed by Carl Hayhurst, promoted from the front of a horse in the latest Spam adverts.

Tickets are priced at £7.50 and £6.50 with first night seats at £5 from the Grand box office on 01524-64695.