Passengers wait for trains at Kings Cross mainline station as flooding delays services. Heavy rain plunged thousands of commuters into travel chaos as flash floods cut off many areas of the country. * In the space of just half-an-hour London saw 1.18in (3cm) of rainfall as storms swept through England and north of the border. While London saw the worst of the bad weather, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire were also battling against the elements, with the rain set to move towards East Anglia and Kent overnight. 09/06/2004 More people are arriving late for work because of worsening travel delays, costing the British economy an extra 2 billion, according to a survey of 6,000 workers by recruitment website reed.co.uk Wednesday June 9, 2004. The number of workers arriving an hour or more late has risen by 5% over the past year and employers are set to lose 11 million hours every week because of their staff's commuting problems, up by a third over the year.

Passengers wait for trains at Kings Cross mainline station as flooding delays services. Heavy rain plunged thousands of commuters into travel chaos as flash floods cut off many areas of the country. * In the space of just half-an-hour London saw 1.18in (3cm) of rainfall as storms swept through England and north of the border. While London saw the worst of the bad weather, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire were also battling against the elements, with the rain set to move towards East Anglia and Kent overnight. 09/06/2004 More people are arriving late for work because of worsening travel delays, costing the British economy an extra 2 billion, according to a survey of 6,000 workers by recruitment website reed.co.uk Wednesday June 9, 2004. The number of workers arriving an hour or more late has risen by 5% over the past year and employers are set to lose 11 million hours every week because of their staff's commuting problems, up by a third over the year.