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Final YES! for Rother Valley leisure site
The developers behind the YES! Project could be on site by the end of the year after signing the development agreement with Rotherham Council. Oak Holdings chief executive Steve Lewis told Insider the developer can now cement its financing and that the £390m project can now get moving. At the moment we have the concept design and we will be taking that to the next stage, he said. We will be taking the tenant interest we already have and converting that into substantial proposals as well as attracting other tenants. Oak already has memoranda of understanding with BT and E.ON, Baydrive Golf, extreme-sports company Venture Xtreme and the Sheffield Steelers ice hockey team. The developer and council hope the project will be complete by 2012 because it will have an Olympic-scale white-water kayaking course. Rother Valley Country Park, where it will be based, is on the list of potential 2012 training bases.
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Rotherham cemeteries privatised
Private funeral company Dignity Funerals has taken over responsibility for Rotherham Borough Councils crematorium and cemetery at East Herringthorpe along with nine other cemeteries across the borough. The Public Private Partnership (PPP), advised by Nabarros Sheffield projects team, will bring £3m investment in the refurbishment and improvement of facilities, including a new bereavement services administration centre, landscaped memorial gardens, a new 120-space visitor car park and a purpose-built grounds maintenance depot. 
My Sheffield Jobs moves South
MyJobGroup.co.uk, the Sheffield-based online recruitment service that owns a network of local jobs websites such as My Sheffield Jobs, has acquired South East recruitment website network LocalJobsGroup.co.uk. The deal more than doubles the number websites under the MyJobGroup umbrella and provides a foothold in the South East recruitment markets with more than 40 sites, including LondonLocalJobs.co.uk.
Funding for coach company premises
Independent coach and bus operator, TM Travel, has purchased new premises in Halfway in a £1.05m deal funded by NatWest Commercial Banking. The new premises provide larger garaging and bigger office space as well as room for growth. The company provides coach travel, private hire, school and college transport and local bus services across Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. Lombard, the asset finance provider, is also working with TM Travel to increase and upgrade its fleet.
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Sheffield and Leeds need better brands
Sheffield and Leeds are lagging behind in branding, despite having more to offer than places such as Liverpool, which has a better brand, a report by Saffron Brand Consultants has claimed. The report said regional centres with similar scores for attributes, such as Leeds, Sheffield and Liverpool, vary widely in their ability to promote themselves. Liverpool has a much stronger brand than its Yorkshire counterparts, despite the fact they have slightly more assets. Bradford came last in the ranking of 72 European cities on both brand and asset strength. Saffrons head of place branding, Jeremy Hildreth, said: Liverpool wants to be a hip city and has a plan to achieve it. Leeds and Sheffield have similar brand potential but its yet to be developed in a coordinated way.
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Mystery buyer takes Home Office building
Cash-strapped developer Wilson Bowden, whose owner Barratt is trying to sell the company, has sold 75,000 sq ft of office space on Sheffields Riverside development to a mystery buyer. The buyer has bought the former Exchange Brewery site, which is occupied by the Home Office, for more than £19m through Danish property consultancy Danmerc, which liaised with Knight Frank on behalf of Wilson Bowden.
Race Cottam do Morrisons
Sheffield architecture firm Race Cottam Associates is designing six new and refurbished Morrisons stores across the country after designing an extension to the Morrisons in Chester and the complete refit of the Merrion Centre store in Leeds.
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New face for technology ventures
Enterprise Ventures (EV) has appointed Ashwin Kumaraswamy as investment manager in the private equity and venture capital providers technology investment team, working on EVs RisingStars Growth Funds and South Yorkshire Investment Funds pilot seedcorn fund. Kumaraswamy has held previous positions focusing on the commercialisation of intellectual property from UK universities.
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Derby day for Sheffield business community
Blades and Owls supporters in Sheffields business and professional community will go head to head for the Inaugural Master Cutlers Trophy next month. Two teams will represent Sheffields rival professional teams, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, and will be managed by players from their preferred team at Sheffield Football Clubs grounds in Dronfield on 4 September. All proceeds go to the Master Cutlers preferred charity, St Lukes Hospice.
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