A fleet of tankers are working to pump out 60 million litres of water from a major dual carriageway after heavy rain across the UK has caused flooding.<br /><br />National Highways are working to reopen the A421 in Bedfordshire in a "large scale operation" after rain on Sunday evening left it underwater.<br /><br />They have already removed more than five million litres of water - more than two Olympic swimming pools - from the road near Marston Mortaine after torrential rain.<br /><br />The fleet could be seen this morning (Sep 27) in the drizzly conditions after more heavy rain fell last night and this morning across the East of England.<br /><br />The Met Office had issued an amber weather warning covering central England which expired at 6am this morning.
