UK to ban sales of petrol, diesel-fuelled cars from 2040: media

FILE PHOTO: A Shell service station displays the price of petrol and diesel in London January 29, 2016. REUTERS/Paul Hackett/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government will announce on Wednesday that it will ban the sale of all petrol- and diesel-fuelled cars from 2040 as part of a plan to clean up air pollution, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The reported move follows a similar announcement earlier this month by the French government.

FILE PHOTO: A customer drives away in a Mercedes-Benz after refuelling at an independent petrol station, with the slogan 'low fuel prices, always' across the forecourt roof, on an A road near Ely in Cambridgeshire, Britain, October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

(Writing by William Schomberg, editing by G Crosse)