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Comedians share their favorite jabs at the city most of them love Worcester Magazine “Welcome to Worcester,” said poet Bill MacMillan, hosting the Worcester Poetry Slam from the stage of the now-defunct Java Hut, “the city that means well.” To be fair, MacMillan used the joke for other cities, too – mostly Providence – but for poet, humorist and generally funny guy David Macpherson, that's still the joke that best sums up the city. “It's a classic,” says Macpherson. And it's true: For all that Worcester is said to have something of a self-image problem, the fact is the city ha...

Campbeltown Courier David MacPherson junior beams as he sits in the Joëlette wheelchair, pushed by JAPES founder Nelson Liddle. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall. However,  To access all other news will require a subs...

© Supplied by David Macpherson Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A determined Kintyre man who suffered life changing injuries in a car accident is on a mission to conquer Ben Nevis in a special wheelchair. More than 20 years ago, David MacPherson’s life was turned upside down after sustaining major injuries as a result of a car accident in Campbelltown. On June 5, he will attempt to reach the summit of the UK’s highest mountain in a wheelchair designed by charity JAPES: Joelette And People Experien...

David Macpherson, writer of The Rig. Picture: Mark Mainz/Amazon Prime Video WHEN he was growing up near Alness on the Cromarty Firth, David Macpherson would often gaze in awe at the oil rigs that loomed high above the water, watching as these mighty beasts were towed into the bay for repair. A seed was planted that, some decades later, would germinate into the idea for a TV series. Macpherson’s scriptwriting debut will arrive on our screens in the not-too-distant future with The Rig, a sci-fi thriller set off Scotland’s north-east coast, destined for Amazon Prime Video. “Oil rigs ...

Campbeltown Courier Updated: 22/04/21, 4:31 pm David MacPherson junior, right, with his father, David senior, who will join him on the Ben Nevis challenge. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall. However,