Heating issues cause schools to close as temperatures plummet.
Projects in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Suffolk and Northamptonshire will receive funding.
Cookham Bridge, which links Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, closes to traffic for 20 weeks.
The thunderstorms could lead to "difficult driving conditions and some flooding", the Met Office says.
Trains will be cancelled or delayed until Thursday due to the electrical fire, Network Rail says.
A film studio boss says there are "amazing opportunities" for budding filmmakers in the industry.
Marlow Film Studios want to build a state-of-the-art production facility on the site of former gravel pits.
The bodies of husband and wife Susan and Jeffrey Farrance were found in a flat, detectives say.
The victims had been knifed in the chest and stomach, post-mortem examinations find.
