THE Met Office has issued a ‘yellow’ weather warning for heavy rain affecting Surrey and Hampshire this weekend.

Heavy rain is expected across much of southeast Wales, southwest England and parts of central and southern England from Saturday evening and overnight into Sunday morning.

Bus and train services will probably be affected along with spray and flooding on some roads making journey times longer. Flooding of a few homes and businesses is also possible.

The Met Office chief forecaster said: “An area of rain will run across southern parts of England and Wales on Saturday evening and overnight into Sunday.

“With the ground very wet in these areas this is likely to lead to rising water levels and some flooding in places. This is most likely on Sunday morning with some very heavy rain possible for a time.

“15 to 25 mm of rain is likely with some spots seeing 30 to 40 mm - much of this falling in three hours or so on Sunday morning.”