Flood warnings across Wales as river levels rise tonight

A flood warning has been issues for the village of Bangor-on-Dee near Wrexham.

Natural Resources Wales says river levels will peak at 10pm tonight. There are now 13 flood warnings across Wales with more rain forecast overnight.

North Wales Police say a small number of homes were evacuated at Beaumaris on Anglesey earlier on Saturday and the situation at St Asaph in Denbighshire was being monitored closely.

With ground already saturated across North wales, heavy rain over the past 24 hours has caused rivers to rise rapidly and the waterlogged A55 north Wales expressway is closed in both directions between junctions 11 and 15.

The B5109 Llanfaes Beaumaris is also closed, as is the A5/A470 junction at Waterloo Bridge.

There is also heavy flooding on the A487 Bangor and the road is closed from Vaynol roundabout up to the St David's retail park.

Across the UK limited rail services are being offered by Stansted Express, Chiltern Railways, Gatwick Express, Heathrow Express, Merseyrail, ScotRail, Southeastern, Southern and Thameslink, but no other operators are offering any services.

Trains will resume on Sunday December 27th but much of north Wales will still be suffering from floods.