Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula cruised to a straight-sets win against Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu in the first round of the revamped US Open mixed doubles.

Rory McIlroy says he is comfortable with the format change at this year’s Tour Championship, which gives each one of the 30-strong field a unique chance to lift the FedEx Cup.

John Swinney said the 2011 election, where the SNP won a majority, leading to the 2014 independence referendum, had set a ‘precedent’.

It comes as a study, of 2,000 holidaymakers, found they start to miss home just five days into a getaway. Both the quiz and the research were commissioned by DFS, with the latter identifying the ...