The seizure of Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) from OB Health & Fitness Ltd based in Ellerdine was part of a wider international enforcement operation targeting unregulated and dangerous goods being sold to the public online, in partnership with West Mercia Police and coordinated by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD).

Whilst carrying out the latest urgent repair work after the owners failed to do so, Telford & Wrekin Council’s contractors have identified further issues which have necessitated the issuing of another Urgent Works Notice, which was served on 12 November 2025.

This latest enforcement action will be completed by the Council’s contractors, who are already on site carrying out the previous urgent work. Telford & Wrekin Council will be seeking to recover the cost for this extra work, along with the ongoing and previous work, from the owners.

Opponents of plans to build 166 homes south of Newport are set to marshal their forces for a big push in advance of a looming public consultation deadline.

Church Aston Parish Council and Telford & Wrekin Councillor Andrew Eade will be hosting a ‘drop-in session’ at the village hall on Thursday evening (November 20) for objectors to the Bellway Homes plan at Church Aston.

Now the council has set a date of December 4 this year, when its ruling Labour cabinet is set to make what it calls key decisions on both the housing strategy and on new moves in the market for HMOs.

In other council areas, such as Walsall and Birmingham, Article 4 directions (A4D) mean that homeowners who want to convert houses into HMOs for up to six tenants lose permitted development rights and have to apply for planning permission.

Previous plans to convert The Poplars at Wellington Road, Donnington, into a 10-bed HMO were withdrawn to be replaced by a new proposal with two fewer beds.

Two residents in Wellington Road have already objected to the new plan which is out for a period of public consultation by Telford & Wrekin Council.

The maintenance of a community orchard at the top of Ringers Lane in Admaston, Telford is uncertain following a meeting of Wrockwardine Parish Council last week.

The uncertainty stems from the recently announced boundary review, which will see the site fall under the control of Wellington Town Council in 2027.

Great British Energy this week announced that Wylfa on Anglesey has been selected as the site for the UK’s first Small Modular Reactor.

Councillor Bentley told the full council on Thursday that SMR’s take up 18 times less space than solar panels.

Veolia proposes the development of four affordable self-build bungalows which would ‘benefit both the company and the local community’.

The site is recorded as a former open cast coal and clay site which was given permission to be used as a tip for waste materials in 1979.