Heavy rain causes landslide on major road as 17 flood alerts issued - live updates

A landslide has shut part of a busy main road after a day of heavy rain. Natural Resources Wales has 17 flood alerts in place on Friday morning (February 9).

Part of the A40 in Monmouthshire is closed in both directions after there was a landslip on the northbound carriageway between the Dixton Roundabout at Monmouth and Old Monmouth Road at Whitchurch. One lane of the M4 near Porthcawl is closed due to flooding westbound from junction 37 Porthcawl to junction 38 Margam.

A 24-hour yellow warning for heavy rain ended at 6am on Friday. Heavy rain caused flooding on parts of the M4 on Thursday night and a road in Pembrokeshire remains closed because of flooding.

It comes after 10cm of snow was measured by the Met Office in Kirkwall, Orkney, on Thursday, while 9cm was recorded in Bingley, West Yorkshire. A total of 43.2mm of rainfall was measured in Harbertonford, south Devon, almost half the average for the area in February.

Disruption was also reported by Great Western Railway on the line between Bath and Swindon due to flooding. Met Office operational meteorologist Dan Stroud said temperatures in the early hours of Thursday reached a low of -13.8C in Altnaharra, in the Scottish Highlands, while Exeter reached a high of 13.6C later in the day.

He said: "We've had the worst of it but it's still not completely clear. Where we have falling snow, we see there is a risk of a few icy patches on roads. The focus is probably starting to shift more towards ice, people should still be cautious."

The forecast for Wales on Friday is for a cloudy day remaining unsettled with showery outbreaks of rain, these turning heavy at times.

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