Travellers and families at home for Christmas should expect further disruption over the next two days from widespread flooding in parts of the UK, the Environment Agency warned on Thursday, with heavy storms expected overnight. Tens of thousands of homes were left without power on Christmas Day and nearly 1,000 homes were flooded after bad weather caused chaos across southeast and southwest England. The Environment Agency said it expected another band of storms to hit most of the UK on Thursday night and Friday morning, which could bring 2.5cm of rain and winds of up to 70mph. Tim Field, head of public affairs at the Energy Networks Association, said staff were out in greater numbers than usual attempting to repair fallen power lines. He told BBC Radio’s Today programme: “Way more people have been working on this than would normally be working in any average week . . . It’s the last thing […]