A 17-year-old is among five people arrested on suspicion of being members of a banned far-right terror group.

The boy, from Nottingham, was arrested by counter-terrorism officers after a series of raids across the country, West Midlands police said.

Two men, aged 22 and 28, both from Birmingham, a 23-year-old man and a woman, 22, both from Halifax, West Yorkshire, were arrested on Wednesday.

The five have been detained on suspicion of being members of a proscribed organisation, National Action, which was banned in December 2016.

They are being held at a police station in the West Midlands, after an operation carried out by the West Midlands counter-terrorism unit in conjunction with counter-terrorism policing North East and East Midlands counter-terrorism intelligence unit.

A number of addresses are also being searched in connection with the arrests.

A police spokesman said: “The arrests were pre-planned and intelligence-led.”