Football pitch collapses and roads flooded as heavy rain hits England and Wales

Sam Hancock
Live page editor

An amber rain warning remains in place for a large chunk of England, but is due to expire in about an hour.

It tells people living in areas such as Manchester, Peterborough, Oxford and Portsmouth that communities could be cut off by flooded roads and power cuts are likely.

Monday has certainly seen plenty of heavy rainfall and flooding, with a road becoming submerged in Bedfordshire and a huge hole forming on AFC Wimbledon’s pitch in south-west London. By 10:00 BST, around a month’s worth of rain had already fallen for some.

Mark Poynting, a climate and environment researcher at the BBC, earlier looked into whether all this is linked to climate change. I’d recommend giving that a read if you’re asking the same, or similar, questions.

There’s striking footage of the collapsed football pitch, which is well worth looking at.

And if you want to keep up to date with the UK’s weather, you can find our main news story covering all the events of today right here.

We’re leaving our live coverage there, but should the weather take another turn, we’ll be back with the latest updates and analysis. This page was brought to you by Hafsa Khalil, Ruth Comerford, Yaroslav Lukov, Malu Cursino and me.