£606 bill for 10-mile Uber

AN Uber passenger was shocked when the taxi firm billed him £606 for a 10-mile journey.

Rich Phillips, 27, ordered a car from a festival to a bar in August last year.

But the next day his bank account was charged for a near five-hour trip, covering 243 miles.

At first Uber refused to give him a refund but later relented and apologised.

Rich, of Coventry, said: “I was in the car for about ten minutes. I will never use Uber again.”

DONALD Trump plans to link the West Bank and Gaza Strip by tunnel, he revealed in his long-awaited Middle East peace plan yesterday.

Standing alongside embattled Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, the President claimed no Israelis or Palestinians would be uprooted from their homes.

Trump dubbed his two-state solution a “win-win” for both sides and a “vision for peace, prosperity and a new future” at the White House unveiling. The tunnel was on a map showing a Palestinian state largely in the West Bank.

Trump said the plan involved “territorial compromises” by Israel, which would absorb occupied territory in exchange for a defined border with the Palestinians, who would be given a path

to statehood. Land swaps south of Gaza would give Palestine more territory.

The President announced Jerusalem will remain Israel’s “undivided” capital.

Netanyahu, who was indicted on corruption charges in Israel yesterday but denies wrongdoing, praised Trump as a “great friend” and called his proposals the “opportunity of a century”.

Officials said he would fly to Moscow

today to discuss Trump’s plan with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Not present was Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian National Authority. He cut off diplomatic contact after Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Palestinians demonstrated about the plan in Gaza yesterday.