FIVE people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after officers uncovered a cache of weapons and suspected extremist material during a house search.

FIVE people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after officers uncovered a cache of weapons and suspected extremist material during a house search.

The arrests, made in Plymouth, saw men, aged 25, 19 and 16, and two women, both aged 20, held for questioning.

Officers found weapons, imitation weapons, suspicious devices and “material relating to political ideology” during a house search, a force spokesman said.