A 20-year-old man has been arrested by counter-terrorism police in London.

He was detained at an address on suspicion of "possessing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".

The man is being questioned by officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit at a police station in the capital.

A West Midlands Police spokesman said the arrest on Thursday morning was made under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

They added: "The arrest was pre-planned and intelligence-led; there was no threat to the public’s safety."

An address in London is being searched by police, along with a property in Walsall, in the West Midlands.

The man was arrested under legislation allowing officers a maximum of 36 hours to question him before charging, releasing or bailing him, or applying to a court for a warrant of further detention.