BBC Newsnight reported earlier there was a suggestion the car used in the attack was hired from an address in Birmingham. However, this has not been confirmed.

Armed police carried out a raid on an address in Hagley Road in Birmingham last night. 

West Midland Police referred inquiries about the operation to Scotland Yard, who refused to say whether it was connected to the Westminster attack. 

Wolves sign Ben Goodliffe from Boreham Wood, and fellow teenager Andrew Harris, for their Under-23 squad.

That's all from us on Wednesday. Join us again from 08:00 on Thursday for more news, sport, travel and weather updates.

Any breaking news will be published here in the meantime.

You can also follow minute-by-minute updates on the  Westminster attack on BBC News.

Birmingham Mail

A woman has died after being hit by a car, external outside a Co-op supermarket.  

Nick Owen
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

We will bring you the latest on the Westminster "terrorist incident".

A Birmingham man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing his former girlfriend more than 35 years ago thanks to the latest DNA technology.

Join us for more on these stories and others on the Midlands Today from BBC One from 18:30.

The headteacher of Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Small Heath, Birmingham, Peter Foley, has reiterated the pupils who had been visiting parliament are safe.

The school Twitter account published a photo of the children there shortly before the terrorist incident on Westminster Bridge unfolded.

Image source, Google

He said: “All the children on the school trip are safe and their parents have been informed of the situation. The deputy head teacher is with the children and is providing me with regular updates.”  

Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today

The rain and showers will ease overnight to leave most places dry. It will be a chilly night with patchy frost and fog possible. 

Further rain will be arriving from the east during the early hours of the morning - lows of -1C (30F).

Tomorrow, any wind and rain will die out through the afternoon, becoming brighter and drier.

Express and Star

MPs have spoken of their shock, external after the Houses of Parliament were put in lockdown after a police officer was attacked and people nearby injured.  

Acocks Green councillor, John O'Shea, is reporting all the children visiting Parliament today from Birmingham's Holy Family Catholic Primary School are safe.

Both houses remain in lockdown after the " terrorist incident " earlier, says Selly Oak MP, Steve McCabe.

West Midlands MPs are continuing to tweet about the incident near parliament , in which at least one person has been killed, with several others reportedly hit by a vehicle on Westminster bridge.

Peter Wilson
BBC Midlands Today Special Correspondent

A man whose DNA linked him to the killing of his ex-partner has been sentenced to 12 years in jail more than 35 years after the crime took place.

Nova Welsh was found dead in a cupboard at her home in Ladywood, Birmingham in August 1981.

Advances in DNA science led to Osmond Bell's conviction - his DNA was found on chewing gum used to secure a lock on a cupboard containing her body.

Bell, 60, was found guilty of manslaughter by a majority verdict earlier on Wednesday.

Following the incident at Westminster,  in which a police officer has been stabbed , West Midlands MPs have been tweeting about the incident.

Alex Lester
Presenter, BBC WM

A grieving family has said its idea to change the law to take drivers with poor eyesight off the roads would be a fitting legacy for their three-year-old daughter "even if only one life was saved".

John Place, aged 72, had been told his eyesight was too poor and he should have stopped driving but carried on and hit Rachel Clarke as she crossed Chester Road in Boldmere, Sutton Coldfield, last July with her daughter Poppy-Arabella. 

Place was  jailed for four years earlier this week  for causing Poppy-Arabella's death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving to her mother.

Image source, FAMILY HANDOUT/BBC

Mrs Clarke remembered Poppy-Arabella this morning as "exceptionally kind".

"She would want to know if a change was made, it might save one life and if only life was saved, wouldn't that be wonderful for a family to have the rest of their life with their child," Mrs Clarke said.

Her father Phil spoke of how her death had affected them: "The best way I can put it is if you imagine you are a chrysalis before you become a butterfly having Poppy-Arabella in our lives was for us being that butterfly if you can imagine being put back into that chrysalis stage... we don't know what our lies are going to be. 

"We deeply mourn the people we were, which was, her mummy and daddy. 

"We don't know what a new existence will be yet, because we fought so hard for eight and a half months to see a little bit of justice for Poppy-Arabella and now we have the reality that we need to hopefully work hard to have her law but realistically just figure out what to do to make our daughter proud of us."

A police officer has been stabbed in the Houses of Parliament in central London, Commons Leader David Lidington has said .

He told MPs the "alleged assailant was shot by armed police" following a "serious" incident.

Staff inside Parliament were told to stay inside their offices.

Three West Midlands schools had taken pupils on school trips to Westminster today, including Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Birmingham, Balsall Common Primary School in Coventry and Rugby High School in Rugby.

The parents of Poppy-Arabella Clarke are calling for a new law to be created.

Nova Welsh, a part-time cleaner, who had recently split from Osmond Bell before her death, had been missing for three weeks when her body was discovered, according to police.

Image source, West Midlands Police

A post-mortem examination revealed the mother-of-two died from pressure to the neck.    

Ms Welsh, who was 24 years old, had two children under the age of six with Bell, of Regent Road, Handsworth.

Jurors were also told a "one-in-a-billion" profile matching Bell was discovered on a letter sent to try to deflect suspicion of Ms Welsh's murder on to others. 

He suggested in court he had already seen and handled the letter during police interview in the wake of the initial discovery of Miss Welsh.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Changes are being rung at the top of Birmingham City Council.

Stella Manzie, a former chief executive of Coventry City Council and Barking and Dagenham Council, and who was until last year Commissioner Managing Director of Rotherham MBC, is due to be confirmed as Birmingham's interim chief executive at a full council meeting on 4 April.

It comes after former chief executive Mark Rogers  left the £180,000-a-year post suddenly in February .

Camden Council's chief finance officer Mike O'Donnell will fill the same vacant role for three days a week in Birmingham on a secondment.

And Alan Gay, who has been part of an independent review team  recommended by the government , and who is deputy chief executive and director of strategy and resources at Leeds City Council, is going to "provide support and strategic oversight in the short term" at Birmingham.

A man appears in court after the 73-year-old guard was seriously injured at a factory.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

For the past few months  we've been inviting our readers to pass on questions  they wanted answering by our journalists.

Image source, Black Country Bugle

We were asked: "Why is Battlefield Terrace at Wombourne so called? Was there ever a battle there?”

Hilary Moore, Clerk to Wombourne Parish Council, told us: "I’ve attached an excerpt from the Black Country Bugle which may throw some light on the subject.  

"A number of sites have been put forward for the Battle of Tettenhall, including Wednesfield and Wombourne.  

"It is generally believed that a battle took place in Wombourne as part of the 910 AD campaign, hence the local names of Battlefield Terrace, Battlefield Hill."