Officers were called to reports of a stabbing on Glycena Road, Battersea, in the early hours of Saturday morning. Jamal Coombes, 17, was found with serious injuries and died at the scene. A 14-year-old boy from Wandsworth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article and will appear at Highbury Corner Youth Court on Monday. Two other teenagers - a boy and girl, both aged 15 - were arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, but have since been released on bail while enquiries continue. A third boy, also aged 15, who was arrested on suspicion of murder on Sunday, remains in police custody. Mr Coombes was found with serious injuries and died at the scene. Detective chief inspector Brian Howie, the senior investigating officer leading the inquiry, said: "Our thoughts remain firmly with Jamal's loved ones following his tragic death. "I understand the impact this incident has had on the local community. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to speak with one of our officers on patrol in the area this week." Read more from Sky News:Wowcher apologises over email referencing crocodile attackDriver who died in Bedford train crash named On Sunday, Mr Howie appealed to the public for any information relating to the incident. He said: "We believe that there was an altercation prior to the assault, so if you were in the Lavender Hill area between 03.30hrs and 05.00hrs, specifically Glycena Road, Acanthus Road, or Pountney Road, and witnessed a group of men running, please come forward. "Any information, no matter how minor it may seem, could prove crucial. CCTV, doorbell or mobile phone footage may provide vital evidence. "I would also urge members of the public not to assume that information has already been shared, any detail could be of significant importance to the investigation."

The 66-year-old confirmed in an interview with The Times that a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test two months ago revealed no sign of the disease. Clarkson revealed in the latest episodes of the fifth season of Clarkson's Farm that he had been diagnosed with "aggressive" prostate cancer that had been found early. The TV host has met up with former prime minister Lord David Cameron to talk about their prostate cancer diagnoses with other famous faces. He said: "I was talking to David (Cameron) about it earlier this morning. He said the amount of people that come up to him is mostly in public conveniences and say, if you hadn't owned up to it, I wouldn't have got checked, and they wouldn't have found it. "So now there's a group of us, (food writer) Giles Coren, David, me, one or two other people, and we meet for lunch every so often. "Everybody has different Gleason scores, and everybody has different Stockholm and PSA scores. We all compare notes and I actually get muddled with what mine were." Clarkson said the diagnosis had "landed harder than I thought it would". He added: "This is why I have to say to everybody who's reading this, please, please, please go and get checked. "It's not uncomfortable, it's not undignified, and it's a no-brainer. I did, and that's why I'm sitting here talking to you 11 months down the line." Speaking from a hospital bed at the end of the season finale, Clarkson revealed he had suffered from complications during treatment, which he told The Times had been caused by him resuming a course of tablets for his earlier vascular and cardiac problems. Read more from Sky News:Three people killed following fire in west LondonSky News podcast to become landmark TV show He said: "That was horrific and it was all my own fault." He continued: "Two or three weeks after the cancer operation, I thought I'd better put myself back on those blood thinners. Big mistake, huge." He said it resulted in a "very big emergency in the middle of the night" and the treatment required as a result of that was "horrible". The diagnosis came almost two years after the TV presenter underwent a heart procedure, which saw him fitted with two stents to improve blood flow to the heart. He said his doctor had told him to stop working following the operation and that he had been advised to replace work with golf in a column for The Sun at the time. Clarkson said: "I am without a doubt, officially, the world's luckiest man." The celebrity farmer previously stopped smoking after contracting pneumonia on holiday in Spain. In a post on the X account of his pub, The Farmer's Dog, Clarkson added: "The reason why I'm fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested."

Despite his government being elected with a huge majority of 172 in July 2024, Sir Keir's support base was described as "wide but shallow". Big promises on key issues, including easing the cost of living, restoring the NHS and dealing with an acute housing crisis, had been the cornerstone of his pledges to win over the electorate. Now, just under two years later, he has resigned. The exact timetable for his departure is unclear, but we know that he will become the shortest-serving Labour prime minister in history. His replacement will be the seventh prime minister in 10 years, following years of increasing instability and high turnover at the top of government. Cost of living Sir Keir has emphasised that cutting the cost of living was his government's "number one priority". Read moreStarmer tracker: Is the PM making progress towards his key policies? Consumer price inflation surged from 2.2% to 3.8% in Starmer's first year in power. But, despite the impact of the conflict in the Middle East on trade, it has since fallen back to 2.8%. That's still higher than the target rate, but lower than many experts predicted it would get to when it became clear that the Iran war would not be over quickly. The war added to a series of external shocks that also included Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on US imports. Sir Keir pledged to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 by the end of this parliament. While UK economic growth has been slow - at 1% in 2025 - the country is not alone in facing economic challenges, and is currently outperforming several G7 peers as the second-fastest growing economy in the group over the past 12 months. Britain's growth figures for March showed an unexpected rise, but the most recent figures - for April - showed a contraction of 0.1%. Tax thresholds While the Government has repeatedly promised not to increase taxes for working people, "stealth" tax increases through frozen tax thresholds mean many are paying more. Tax thresholds have been frozen since 2021 and are set to remain frozen until 2028. That means that as inflation leads to wage increases, we end up paying more tax on a higher proportion of our earnings - a process known as fiscal drag. Missing housebuilding targets Slow economic growth and persistent cost of living issues may have contributed to the prime minister's unpopularity, but they have also made it harder to deliver in other areas, like housing. Sir Keir said he wanted to "build baby, build", summing up his government's ambitious promise of creating 1.5 million additional homes before the next general election. Achieving it would represent a higher level of housebuilding than at any point since the post-war period. With the halfway point of this parliament fast approaching, housing delivery has fallen to its lowest level in nine years. Housebuilders have raised concerns that building is "flatlining" and no longer viable - particularly in London, where only 5,000 new homes were started in the latest year, against a target of 81,000. Based on analysis of new Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), which are a strong indicator of additional housing supply, Sky News estimates around 353,000 additional homes have been delivered under Labour, short of the 525,000 that would have been required so far to be on track to meet targets. While the Government has always maintained that the pace will increase towards the end of the parliament, the current shortfall of nearly 200,000 is close to a whole year's housebuilding at the current pace. NHS promises Fixing the "broken" NHS has been another key pledge under Sir Keir's leadership. The Government is quick to point out that NHS England's waiting list is down by more than 500,000 appointments, from 7.62 million in July 2024 to 7.11 million appointments in the latest figures for March 2026. It remains substantially higher than the 4.57 million appointments pre-pandemic in February 2020, however. More than one in 10 people in England are currently waiting for some sort of NHS treatment. Read moreWes Streeting claims he hit his NHS targets - this says otherwise The Government has a target that, by the time of the next election, no more than 8% of patients should wait more than 18 weeks to start their treatment. The figure was up at 41% when Labour took over in July 2024, and they had an interim target to have reached 35% by March 2026. They achieved that target in March, but fell back again in April so the latest figures are back underneath that target. Much of the improvement is also thanks to "unreported removals" - people removed from the waiting list for reasons other than receiving treatment. March 2026 had the highest number of "unreported removals" since the pandemic. Meanwhile, "trolley waits" - where patients wait for long periods in corridors for hospital beds - reached a new record high, with 554,000 waits of more than 12 hours in 2025. That was more than the total recorded between 2011 and 2022. Migration battle According to Donald Trump's analysis, delivered via his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Starmer has been forced to resign after "failing on two very important subjects - IMMIGRATION AND ENERGY". WatchFact-checked: Is Trump right about Britain having the highest energy prices? On immigration, Sir Keir can certainly point to some successes, although his record overall has been patchy. He inherited certain troubles from the previous Conservative government while also benefiting from the effects of the outgoing government's policies to reduce visa routes. Net migration was already in decline by the end of the Conservative government's tenure, but has fallen to just 204,000 year-on-year under Labour - down 68% from June 2024 levels - and is now inline with pre-Brexit and pre-Covid levels, the lowest in more than five years. Last year also saw the highest number of returns (38,000 in total) in nearly a decade, meaning more immigrants leaving the UK either by voluntary or enforced return. But one of Labour's pledges was to "smash the gangs", referring to people-smuggling gangs who facilitate deadly English Channel crossings. Small boat crossings skyrocketed under Sir Keir with more than 75,000 recorded under his leadership - more than any other prime minister. Both 2024 and 2025 were two of the highest years on record for illegal Channel crossings, behind the peak in 2022. Latest figures show crossings going down from their recent peak, however. The number of boats that have arrived in the last year is lower than at any point since 2020. But as the number of people per boat has been rising, the number of people that have crossed in the past 12 months remains above the level inherited by Labour. Although Sir Keir successfully passed the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act, alongside boosting enforcement staffing and powers by creating a Border Security Command, these have yet to meaningfully manifest in widescale prevention of small boat crossings. U-turns and scandals Since entering government, Sir Keir Starmer's Labour has been marred with political unrest and accused of rowing back on several of its manifesto commitments. Despite his massive majority, his own MPs forced him to change course on several important policy areas, like winter fuel payments for pensioners, personal independence payments for disabled people, and the benefit cap for parents with more than two children. Protests from the farming lobby also forced changes to his policy on inheritance tax for agricultural properties. And a legal challenge from Reform UK led to the government reversing a decision to cancel a significant number of council elections. Explore our timeline for more detail. The prime minister has also faced resignations and controversy from those closest to him, from two chiefs of staff to his deputy Angela Rayner. Arguably the most significant of these scandals has been the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US, with subsequent revelations from the Epstein files revealing that the Labour figure had a much closer relationship with the convicted paedophile than previously believed. Sir Keir Starmer repeatedly faced criticism over the vetting process amid Lord Mandelson's resignation and later arrest. By-election defeat Rumours over a leadership challenge from Andy Burnham began last September around the time of the Labour Party conference, but the Manchester mayor was barred from running for a constituency seat in the Gorton and Denton by-election this year. The party lost the seat to the Green Party. When Mr Burnham was allowed to run, in Makerfield last week, the contrast was clear. Labour's vote share increased by 9.6 percentage points compared with the 2024 general election, and on an increased turnout too. Mr Burnham's victory was the first time since 1997 that Labour had secured a vote share increase at a by-election while in government. Read moreProfessor Rob Ford: Crunching the numbers - why Burnham's Makerfield by-election win is so significant Political performance Recent local elections across England, where Labour lost nearly 1,500 council seats and control of 40 councils, have ultimately forced Sir Keir Starmer's decision to no longer lead Labour into the next general election. Overall, Labour has defended 2,853 seats in local elections since 2024 and lost 1,697 of them - a loss rate of 59%. As a result, their share of total councillor numbers in England has dropped to just over 25% so far, although not all seats have had new elections in that time. The last time they had a smaller share of councillors was just before they lost the 2010 election. Labour also saw disastrous results in elections in Wales and Scotland. They lost control of the Welsh Senedd for the first time after their vote share fell to just 11.1%. They also recorded their worst result in a Scottish parliament election, winning just 17 of 129 seats in Holyrood, down from 22 in 2021. Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan resigned after losing her seat, while Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar placed the blame with Sir Keir, calling it "a big national wave and a general vibe that we couldn't change". That led to weeks of Sir Keir facing calls to resign from 100 of his own MPs, including his foreign secretary Yvette Cooper and former health secretary Wes Streeting. John Healey also resigned as defence secretary over a military funding dispute. General election threat Underpinning a lack of confidence in Starmer is the anxiety around Labour's prospects of remaining in power for a second term, which is looking increasingly difficult on current voting trends. Should voting patterns from recent local elections be replicated at the next general election, Sky's election expert Professor Michael Thrasher has projected a redistribution of each party's seats in the House of Commons. The result would be a hung parliament with no single party able to pass the threshold of 326 seats required for an overall majority, but with Reform as the largest party, and Labour's seats reduced to just 110 - which would be their lowest since 1931. Unpopular with the public Sir Keir delivered on some of his key manifesto promises - such as introducing the Renters' Rights Act which abolished no-fault evictions, among other improved rights for renters. The Employment Rights Act has also so far delivered enhanced rights for employees, with day-one entitlement to sick pay and other protections from April 2026. The prime minister's stance on Iran in resisting US President Donald Trump's pressure to become fully involved may also have contributed to a small recent bump in his net approval ratings. Despite this, Sir Keir remains unpopular overall, with 69% viewing him unfavourably in mid May according to polling by YouGov - down from a peak of 75% in January. Ultimately, it is the prime minister's popularity with the public - and future electability - that has been at the front of Labour MPs' minds. Compared with other recent resigning prime ministers after a similar length of time in office, Sir Keir is less popular than all but Liz Truss, at -38% approval overall. The Data and Forensics team is a multi-skilled unit dedicated to providing transparent journalism from Sky News. We gather, analyse and visualise data to tell data-driven stories. We combine traditional reporting skills with advanced analysis of satellite images, social media and other open source information. 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The centre-back partnership of Ezri Konsa and John Stones raised eyebrows ahead of England's World Cup opener, given the selection meant Marc Guehi was left on the bench, and mistakes from both starters in the build-up to the two Croatia goals supported those pre-match suspicions. "Is Konsa and Stones a partnership that can win us the World Cup?" That was the question posed by Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville at half-time on Wednesday on ITV, after watching Stones go to ground before Croatia's first goal and Konsa misjudge a chipped pass ahead of their second. "[Midfielders Declan] Rice and [Elliot] Anderson are going to have to be outstanding and protect our defence rather more than they have in that first half," Neville said. On top of the defensive errors, there was also jittery build-up play from deep in England's half, with Stones and Konsa each guilty of giving up possession when faced with an intense, high press from Croatia early on. While Stones and Konsa posted good passing accuracy numbers by full-time, other stats did not make great reading. Analysis: England's 'full gas' second half vs CroatiaWorld Cup day-by-day schedule | Latest: World CupFollow our World Cup coverage in the Sky Sports App Stones made just one tackle, which did not come off, and one clearance in his 87 minutes. He won four of his seven duels. Konsa won just three of his eight duels, one of his five aerial duels and did not make a single tackle or interception. "We probably lack something defensively to go all the way," Jamie Carragher told Sky Sports News the next morning, pouring some pessimism on England's World Cup prospects, which had been lifted by an electric attacking display in the second half against Croatia. But the restoration of Guehi to the starting line-up for Tuesday's next World Cup Group L game against Ghana could change that narrative. His stats for the past Premier League season show he can be more combative than Stones and Konsa. The Manchester City defender was a first-choice pick by Gareth Southgate at the Euros two years ago, where the perception of England's strengths were the reverse: strong at the back, weak in attack. Guehi, now 25, has gone to another level since then. He seamlessly stepped up at City when they signed him from Crystal Palace in January, picking up an FA Cup winners' medal for the second year in a row in May to underline his development. Since his Premier League debut for City in January, Guehi ranked among the best in the division for both defensive and ball-playing metrics. Guehi was 10th for possession won in the defensive third, fourth for interceptions and, while sixth for forward passes, also fifth for passes completed in that period. Importantly, it is Stones who has suffered from Guehi's arrival. He could not get in the City team ahead of him. Stones, who leaves City this summer at the end of his contract, has made it clear he was fit and available for selection during the run-in. But City boss Pep Guardiola preferred Guehi. So should England manager Thomas Tuchel? Stones played just five times for Man City in 2026. He only started five Premier League games for them in the past year - and City lost four of them. Tuchel, though, is a big fan of Stones and made allowances to take him to this World Cup, treasuring his experience, leadership, defensive skill and quality on the ball. So if Tuchel is eager to include Stones, was the error against Croatia to start him on the left side of the centre-back pairing to accommodate Konsa, who is used to playing on the right? Tuchel gave that combination a trial run against Costa Rica in the final warm-up game. But in the modern age of specificity, it is notable that Stones has rarely played on that side for City. Across the past three seasons he has recorded just 371 minutes at left centre-back. He has racked up 1,151 minutes on the right. Guehi, in contrast, has spent much of his career on the left side, despite being right footed. He notably played on the left of a back three at Palace. Like Stones, Guehi has the adaptability to play in both areas - and has played on the right of a centre-back pairing at times for City - but these details can make a difference. "When you have been playing on one side for a long time and you switch to the other side it can throw you off a little bit," Guehi told Sky Sports in December. Recalling Guehi and shifting Stones back to his more familiar right side of the centre-back pairing could restore some steadiness and security to the backline. It was the duo Tuchel went for in England's first World Cup warm-up game with New Zealand and seemed likely to be the combination of choice in this tournament. But what then for Tuchel regular Konsa? Only goalkeeper Jordan Pickford and captain Harry Kane have played more minutes for England during Tuchel's reign. Guehi has actually started more games at centre-back for England under Tuchel partnering Konsa than partnering Stones. It would be ruthless if Konsa lost his spot after just one World Cup game which, let's not forget, England won. An alternative idea would be that Tuchel fields all three of those players against Ghana. Konsa played right-back with Stones and Guehi at centre-back against Wales in October and it is clear the Aston Villa man has the profile Tuchel is after in that position, having snubbed the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold in favour of defenders with physicality. The knock-on would be Reece James then coming out of the side, despite winning praise for the way he stepped into midfield late in the game against Croatia. James appears to be Tuchel's preferred right-back choice. He has started five times for Tuchel in the position, the most of any player in this era. But given James' injury record, the argument for managing his minutes early in this tournament has merit. James has started England's past two fixtures, against Costa Rica and Croatia, but before then he had not started back-to-back games for Chelsea since March. Would the final group game against a weaker Panama side be the time to do that, rather than against Ghana, with England's qualification and final position in Group L still to be determined, though? There are many factors at play. But Tuchel will need to come up with the right combination at the right time through this World Cup if England are to balance off their attacking qualities with defensive solidity and go all the way.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that 84 drones had been intercepted in the past 24 hours. Emergency services were sent to debris fallout areas but the mayor offered no word on casualties or damage. In total, some 301 drones were downed overnight, according to Russian news agencies, though the figure includes Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Flights were also stopped at Moscow's four main airports but have since resumed, an aviation watchdog said. Ukraine's military general staff said it had also attacked the Dubna satellite communications centre in the Moscow region. On Telegram, it shared a picture of thick black smoke and said it was assessing the damage. The post detailed other strikes; including on a drone operator "training ground" in the Debaltseve area of Luhansk, and on "command and observation points" in the Russian border region of Belgorod and the Pokrovsk area of ​​Donetsk. Another post claimed a factory producing electronics for Russian missiles had been struck in Voronezh, more than 100 miles from Ukraine. The attacks come after a Ukrainian drone strike damaged an oil refinery in Moscow last week in one of the biggest such attacks on the capital since the war began. That in turn followed an attack on St Petersburg as a high-profile economic forum got under way at the start of June. Such attacks - which President Zelenskyy calls "long-range sanctions" - are seen as an attempt to bring the war home to ordinary Russians and pressure President Putin to negotiate. Russia also continued its own attacks on Ukraine overnight into Monday. Prosecutors said a 13-year-old boy had been killed alongside his father and grandmother in a drone strike in the Sumy region. His mother and two siblings were injured. A woman also died in an attack in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, while a missile attack on an agricultural facility killed one person in the Odesa region. The regions' governors detailed the attacks on Telegram and said six people had also been injured. Three foreign ships were also hit overnight, according to Ukraine's deputy prime minister Oleksiy Kuleba. He said on Telegram that a 58-year-old Egyptian cook had been killed when drones badly damaged a Turkish dry cargo vessel. Eight other crew evacuated on a lifeboat. Ships operating under the flags ​of Palau and Belize were also attacked, Mr Kuleba said, adding that there were no injuries and the vessels had continued their journeys. Russia has repeatedly targeted ships and ports vital to Ukraine's foreign trade ‌and the wartime economy. Meanwhile, open-air public events have been cancelled on Monday in Sevastopol, in Russian-annexed Crimea. Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev urged people to save electricity and said street lights would also stay off. Ukrainian attacks on energy facilities and supply routes have led to a fuel crisis there, with supplies currently restricted to agencies responsible for essential services and security.

Chase, a former child star also known for her role as the villain in the 2002 US remake of the Japanese horror film The Ring, reportedly died on Tuesday from complications of bacterial meningitis and a blood infection. Her father, John David Schwallier, told The New York Times that Chase had been homeless in Los Angeles with her boyfriend near the hospital where she died. Mr Schwallier also told the outlet that his daughter had struggled with drugs since she was 13 years old, and that she had been estranged from her parents, who are divorced. He added that he had been in touch with Chase's boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, and arrived at the hospital where she was being treated just before she died. Chase is perhaps best known for her role as Lilo in the 2002 animated film, voicing the eponymous orphaned Hawaiian girl who adopts a genetically engineered extra-terrestrial, whom she names Stitch. She voiced the same character in the subsequent spin-off TV series, which first aired in 2003. For her role as Samara Morgan in The Ring, starring alongside Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts, Chase won an MTV movie award for best villain. She landed another prominent voice lead in the English dub of the 2001 Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away, and also appeared in the 2001 movie Donnie Darko and the 2003 show Oliver Beene. Read more from Sky News:Explainer: What's in the US-Iran deal?Teenager dies in horse-drawn carriage accident in New York Chase was born in Las Vegas and raised in Albany, Oregon. According to IMDb, she began singing and dancing at the age of three and starred in her first commercial - for Campbell's Soup - aged seven. An online fundraiser set up by her boyfriend has raised close to $4,000 as of Thursday. A post on the site read: "Many people know her as a talented childhood actor from 'Lilo & Stitch,' 'Spirited Away,' and 'Donnie Darko'. "But behind the scenes, she's faced more than her share of hardship."

The practice seeks to suppress or change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. A ban was first promised in July 2018 by then prime minister Theresa May, and it has since been pledged in four of the last five King's or Queen's speeches, where governments set out plans for new laws. Politics latest - follow live Downing Street told reporters on Friday they had no update on when the bill would be published. A government spokesperson has previously told Sky News they would "provide an update on this early in the second session" of parliament, which began in mid-May. "Conversion practices are abuse - such acts have no place in society, and this government is taking a clear stand against them," the spokesperson said. Some religious groups have expressed concern about still being able to offer counsel to people who may be confused about their sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill is expected to be published in draft form next week. This allows ministers to consult on it more widely before MPs begin the process of formally voting on it. But it also means it is likely still some way before a ban finally makes it onto the statute book and gives it a lower chance of completing all its parliamentary stages in the next year. Dr Alice Lily, senior researcher at the independent Institute for Government thinktank, told Sky News that how quickly the ban progresses "will depend a bit on how much policy work has already gone into the draft [bill] and what the response to it is like". "It does feel as though there's a lot in this King's Speech and so a lot to get through... given everything else [the government] is committing to, it might be tricky to get that particular bill turned around and passed within the session," she added. Read more:Gay conversion is still legal - why hasn't that changed yet?Draft bill will ban gay conversion practices Labour MP Kate Osborne previously told Sky News she was concerned that the conversion therapy ban is the "only bill [in the King's Speech] that specifies draft". "It just gives people more opportunity to frustrate what is an already delayed and very necessary bill," she said. However, she said she believes ministers do have "every intention of pushing this through as soon as possible". May's King's Speech contained 37 bills, a high number compared to many speeches in recent years. Labour MP Rachel Taylor said she welcomes the government's commitment to passing a ban. "LGBT+ people have waited for far too long for this vital bill, so I welcome the government's commitment to passing it, and particularly that it will be trans-inclusive. "Conversion practices are abuse, and it is high time the law made that crystal clear," she added. LGBTQ+ rights charity Stonewall previously told Sky News it welcomes "the government's commitment to publish a draft bill to ban conversion practices". But it pointed to the number of times a ban has been promised by successive governments and said, "We have been here too many times before". It said the government must "publish a draft bill before parliament breaks for the summer recess". Publishing the bill next week would meet this challenge. Ian Tucker-Bell was subject to conversion therapy by his church between the ages of 17 and 20 in the late 1980s. He said he was "glad to hear" the bill is being published, although he is "keen to see the detail". Referring to previous delays, he had told Sky News he didn't "understand why this is so difficult to ban" and asked: "What other form of abuse would have so much delay in banning?" Mr Tucker-Bell added he was on "the impatient side of eager to get this over the line, but at the same time I recognise our due processes take time." "I just hope there is the will, determination, and momentum to get us to the finish line."

The 2023 champion saw a six-shot overnight advantage cut to just one during an engrossing major final day, where Burns threatened to produce the largest final-round comeback in US Open history and Scheffler stayed in contention to complete the career Grand Slam. Clark stuttered to a front-nine 38 and failed to regain control of the tournament over the closing stretch, with a stunning birdie at the par-five 16th cancelled out by a three-putt bogey at the next to leave him just one ahead with one to play. US Open recap: Final round as it happenedFinal US Open leaderboard and other golf scoresWhen are the majors? Key dates, results in 2026Get Sky Sports or stream golf with no contract The American missed the fairway at the par-four last but found the green with his approach, then two-putted from 50 feet to close out a final-round 73 and secure a second major victory in four years. Clark ended the week on four under and one ahead of Burns, who started the day seven back but charged to a runner-up finish after a three-under 67, with Tom Kim finishing third on one under in front of world No 1 Scheffler, Keith Mitchell and JT Poston. How Clark pipped Burns in major thriller Burns - playing three groups ahead of the overnight leaders - fired his approach at the first to tap-in range and added another birdie at the third, which saw him move within four of the lead when Clark failed to get up and down to save par at the second. Momentum continued to move Burns' way with a 25-foot birdie at the par-five fifth and another from nearly 50 feet at the eighth, as Clark holed from 15 feet to save par at the fourth but saw a chip roll back to him on his way to a bogey at the next. Burns slipped back when he bogeyed the ninth but found himself back within one when Clark missed from four feet at the seventh, with the overnight leader then having to produce a sensational up and down to scramble a par at the ninth to stay ahead at the turn. Clark started his back nine with a close-range birdie but bogeyed the par-four 13th, while Burns responded to missing from four feet to save par at the 15th by making a key birdie at the next to get back to three under. Burns tentatively left his birdie attempt short at the 17th then sunk to his knees after seeing his effort at the last agonisingly shave the edge of the cup, as Clark - who received jeers from the New York crowd - holed from 25 feet at the 16th to double his lead. Clark gave Burns hope when he three-putted from 70 feet to bogey the 17th and then put himself in three-putt territory again at the last, where he lagged his birdie effort to kick-in range before tapping in to claim the $4.5m first prize. "It [winning] feels pretty amazing," Clark said. "I played some ugly golf the last two days but my putter and short game kind of kept me in it. To make all the putts I did has been amazing." Kim marked his 24th birthday by posting a level-par 70 and grabbing third spot, one of just three players to end the week under par, while Scheffler mixed two birdies with three bogeys to miss out on completing the career Grand Slam on his 30th birthday. England's Tyrrell Hatton shared seventh spot on one over with Gary Woodland, Sam Stevens and Joaquin Niemann - who carded an 11 on the par-four sixth during his opening round after a misconduct penalty, as Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Aaron Rai, John Parry, Sahith Theegala and Xander Schauffele all ended the week on two over. Matt Fitzpatrick, the 2022 champion, faded with rounds of 74 and 73 over the weekend, while Rory McIlroy's bid for a second major of the season saw him finish in tied-32nd on six over. What's next? The PGA Tour heads to TPC River Highlands in Connecticut for the Travelers Championship, the latest Signature Event, while the DP World Tour is in Torino for the DS Automobiles Open d'Italia. Both events are live from Thursday on Sky Sports Golf, along with the final men's major of the year - The Open at Royal Birkdale - from July 16-19. Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract.