these pictures show parts of bedfordshire the met office has issued an amber warning for more heavy rain in central and southern england today. hitchin, luton and dunstable were some of the worst affected areas last night, with roads underwater. vehicles were partially submerged there. bedfordshire has reportedly seen "a month's worth" of rain in a day. our correspondent nicky schiller is in the village of marston moreteyne in central bedfordshire with the latest. this is the main road behind me. i will turn the camera around so you can see it is completely and utterly flooded. the road has been closed. in the middle of your screen you can probably see a car that has been submerged. it looks like the back of the car has come up. we don't know what has happened to the people who were in that car but you can see the amount of water that has fallen on this road. this is the main road between milton keynes and bedford. you can see that the road is completely closed. you can see that the traffic is having to be diverted and the water, if i walk across the road, you will be able to see that it road, you

bedfordshire and northamptonshire. which have been hit by downpour, the met office has issued an amber warning in central and southern englandovernight. vehicles were partially submerged there. bedfordshire has reportedly seen a month's worth of rain in a day. let us speak to our correspondent in the village of marston in central bedfordshire. what it is like there?— is like there? yes, lauren i havejust — is like there? yes, lauren i have just arrived _ is like there? yes, lauren i have just arrived here - is like there? yes, lauren i. have just arrived here around this is the main road behind me, the a421. i will turn the camera round you can see, it is completely and utterly flooded. the road has been closed but in the middle of the screen you can probably see there a car that has been submerged. it looks like the back of the car, has come up, we don't know what has come up, we don't know what has happened to the people who were in that car, but you can see the amount of water that has falling on this road. as i say, this is the main road, the a421 between milton keynes and bedford, and you can see that the road is comple

, bedfordshire and london were particularly badly hit, with heavy rain causing widespread travel disruption and damage to property. a met office amber weather warning is in place across much of centralf england and wales until midnight. with more, here'sjo black in bedfordshire. although the wet weather was forecast, the amount of rainfall seems to have taken some by surprise. nikki, from wheatley in 0xfordshire, was flooded 12 years ago. this weekend, it happened again. the whole of the high street has been like a huge river with a massive current which you can't even walk safely across. so the neighbours have all been helping each other walk across the road so that they don't get swept away. 0ther neighbours have been bringing us, um, thermos flasks of tea and coffee and offers of dinner and the like throughout the day, and even popping to the loo and a bit of warm space because we've got obviously no heating. in klopp hill in bedfordshire, residents on this estate live on a floodplain, but say this is the worst they've ever seen. the sewage system under here is fairly close level to the level of the road, so it means that whenever there's an issue with the water level, it's the f

central southern england have seen a month's worth of rainfall in one day, with roads closed and some train services suspended in london. dozens of people have reported flooding in their homes. in leighton basarth, bedfordshire, roads have turned into rivers. locals are complaining, but authorities have done nothing to prevent flooding. in belarus, the working week continues the rhythm of autumn warmth, but the picture will change closer to the weekend. today, no precipitation during the day 22:28 warm, on wednesday and thursday in most parts short-term rains, thunderstorms are possible. the air temperature at night at 8:15, and during the day at 18:25 with a plus sign. on friday, the weather conditions will be worsened by an active frontal section moving from western europe. therefore, at night in most parts during the day in some places there will be rain, which will be accompanied by. gusty in some places strong gusty wind. air temperature at night +12 +17, during the day +18 +23°. due to the hot weather in belarus, a fire hazard situation remains, in many areas of the country there are restrictions on visiting forests arrays, the ministry of forestry reminds . until wednesday , the risks of forest fires

bedfordshire police. here in the uk two men have been charged with burglary after a painting by banksy was stolen from a gallery in centraleen recovered and returned to the gallery. with more, here's nickjohnson. banging. a gallery in central london on sunday night. nearly £2 million worth of banksy artwork on display, but it only takes about 30 seconds before someone makes off with one of the artist's most iconic prints. this is the banksy exhibition in full swing. the girl with balloon taking pride of place. the original was partially shredded after going under the hammerfor more than £1 million in 2018. just over two weeks after girl with balloon arrived at the grove gallery here in central london, it had been taken. someone came and smashed the glass here, came into the gallery and removed the picture from its space here on the wall. all the other banksys in the gallery have since been removed and moved to storage for safekeeping. butjust days after the theft, girl with balloon had been recovered by the police and is now back safely here in the gallery. wrapped in an evidence bag, the print, which was once voted the n

central london. it has been wet for everybody. heavy rain has caused flash flooding in parts of england, prompting road closures overnight. these pictures show parts of bedfordshireast night, in six hours, 62 millimetres of rainfall. that is almost the total amount we would expect for the whole of the month of september. so a lot of standing water, and asjon mentioned, the met office has an amber weather warning in force for central and southern england today. the rain has been steadily falling in the south—east around the london area, rain across northern england drifting westwards, and then later on we will have some more rain coming in across the north of scotland. there is poor visibility around this morning, lo cloud and if you are in the rain, that too will add to the problems. the rain pushing westwards, getting into south—east wales and parts of the west country, and some of this will still be heavy into the afternoon. behind it for east anglia and the south—east, it will brighten up, but we will see some showers and you could hear the odd rumble of thunder. meanwhile for much of wales, south—west england, there will be a fair bit of cloud around. we do h

particularly bedfordshire , particularly bedfordshire, woburn, which has seen, i think 250% of the monthly september rainfall in a matter of hours and left swathes of centraland under floodwater . there is a bit of a floodwater. there is a bit of a respite today, but as you said, there are more warnings in force for tomorrow and this is for wind and that is down the west country, west coast of the country. that's the west country and west wales for, for gusts of up to 60 miles an hour on the coast and 50mph inland. so we really are going into a period of very volatile weather. >> yeah. and the problem with any more bad weather here on in is i guess it's ground saturation now. so actually with the flooding, you're just not going to take much for flooding to get worse. >> no, you're absolutely right. and i was looking the other day at the flooding we had in 2014, the winter floods , if you the winter floods, if you remember, there were swathes of the country under water, but that was at the end of the storm season. we are now at the very beginning of the storm season, and already the ground is going to be saturated. the rivers take a bit longer, there's a bi