Rugeley Power Station. Picture: Lichfield Council

Police were called to the site in Armitage Road soon after 12 pm the previous evening and four men were captured after police and security staff looked through the territory. 
The stolen link was additionally discovered disposed of. 
The men, matured 18, 20, 30 and 34 and all from the London territory, were captured on doubt of robbery. 
They stay in police guardianship and request are progressing, Staffordshire Police said. 
The power station shut in June 2016, with lost around 150 occupations. 
The fundamental A power station has since been obliterated and a month ago Lichfield District Council endorsed an application to annihilate the principle B control station. 
A week ago plans for a 'supportable town' with 2,000 homes were uncovered on the site. 
It is trusted the homes will be completely kept up by sustainable power source, half of which will be created nearby using battery and sun based arrangements. 
The proprietor, electric utility firm ENGIE, wants to begin the arranging procedure in March and is approaching inhabitants to get required with molding gets ready for the site at a network arranging end of the week between November 30 and December 4. 
As a feature of the arrangement, ENGIE would like to fabricated a 'significant' number of business structures on the 139-hectare site bringing scores of occupations. 
Rugeley A power station opened in 1961 while Rugeley B control station, which gave enough power to control around a large portion of a million homes, pursued nine years after the fact.