A yellow weather warning for heavy rain from the Met Office for South Devon was in place earlier, leading the Environment Agency to issue flood warnings for near the River Tone and on Currymoor.

Among the flooded areas, Emsworth in Hampshire has recorded a water level in the West Brook as “high and rising rapidly”, with heavy rain expected to reach nearly 40mm on Wednesday.

Trains have been cancelled in parts of southern England after heavy rainfall flooded railway lines during Storm Conall. No trains are running between Tonbridge and Redhill, Ascot and Aldershot, and ...