Podcast: CyprusScene’s Journey to the UK and Peterborough Wide Horizons

Mara: Peterborough Wide Horizons — a site where Northern Cyprus meets the East Midlands, which is either a very long commute or a very good story.

Pip: It’s a good story. kyreniacommentator has published a post that traces the origins of this site all the way back through decades of community media, personal loss, and a genuine commitment to keeping stories in circulation. Let’s start with that journey.

CyprusScene‘s Journey to the UK and Peterborough Wide Horizons

Pip: The question this post is really answering is: where did Peterborough Wide Horizons come from, and why does a site rooted in Northern Cyprus news now have its feet planted in the UK?

Mara: The post traces it back to a partnership with a neighbour, and the origin is put plainly: “I partnered with my neighbour, Margaret Sheard, and together, we embarked on a media adventure that led to the creation of CyprusScene.com.”

Pip: So this isn’t a pivot or a rebrand born from strategy — it’s a continuation of something built between two people, and carried forward after Margaret’s death from cancer. That changes the weight of the whole enterprise.

Mara: Considerably. The post describes starting out contributing to local print newspapers, then moving online when the limits of print distribution became clear. The goal was always reach — a global audience for Northern Cyprus stories. What’s shifted is geography, not mission.

Pip: And the mission statement for Peterborough Wide Horizons lands almost as a natural extension of that: bringing news and reviews from Peterborough “around and about and out to the horizons.” It’s modest phrasing for what is actually a pretty ambitious scope.

Mara: The post also names a long list of CyprusScene contributors — Ata Atun, Ismail Veli, Roland Eyerich, and many others — and frames them as the foundation the new site builds on. New contributors are explicitly welcomed.

Pip: There’s something quietly determined about a site that begins with grief — the loss of a wife, then a co-founder — and keeps publishing anyway.

Mara: The post closes on exactly that note: “the passion for sharing Northern Cyprus stories remains strong and now we have so much more in the UK.” The site exists because someone decided the stories were still worth telling.

Pip: A media project that outlasted print, outlasted loss, and landed in Peterborough. There are worse places to put down roots.

Mara: More stories to come from both sides of that horizon — worth watching.

Source : CyprusScene’s Journey and Peterborough Wide Horizons

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