Home Counties

London, the Home Counties and Cambridgeshire are the areas expected to record the warmest of the conditions.

Tax breaks make the Home Counties an attractive place to make film and high-end TV but there are other elements that have to come together, Tovey says.

His former bandmates are among those expected to attend the private service in the Home Counties, alongside his family and closest friends.

Overnight, London and the Home Counties were worst affected by the conditions.

“It’s working really well in the Home Counties,” one minister told me.