Wind and rain will continue to blight parts of Britain threatening further travel chaos after torrential downpours caused flash-flooding and disruption across most of the country.

Stena Line has confirmed that the Stena Europe ferry is back in operation today following a minor incident yesterday evening.

Bad weather has disrupted ferry services on the Irish Sea today.

A PASSENGER ferry which was at the centre of a full-scale sea rescue alert after losing power off the Wexford coast yesterday, docked safely in Wales last night.

Helicopters and lifeboats were today sent to the aid of a passenger ferry which lost power off the southeast coast.