He used to fish for oysters but he fled to the hedonism of London, where he was taken under the wing of Derek Jarman. But Andy Marshall was also a creator of dazzling furniture – and the star of a pioneering film about gay life

It was 1982 and young film-maker Paul Oremland was in an east London leather and denim pub, about to meet a character who would change his life. “Andy was pretty unforgettable,” recalls Oremland. “Full of amazing tales, and with a wealth of knowledge about people, places and quirky London life.”

Oremland had been talking to the fledgling Channel 4 about making a series of documentary films about gay life. This was the era of Aids, Thatcher and queer bashing – gay people only ever seemed to be on the television as the subject of shame or the butt of a joke. But the proudly out Andy Marshall – with his beguiling mix of toughness and fragility – didn’t conform to these stereotypes. Oremland decided to feature him in one of the films he created for the channel’s pioneering Six of Hearts series.

Faye Carruthers is joined by Suzy Wrack, Tom Garry and Tim Stillman to break down Chelsea’s win over Arsenal, Manchester City’s six-goal thriller, and the WSL title race

On the podcast today: Chelsea extended their lead at the top of the WSL with a hard-fought win over Arsenal at Stamford Bridge thanks to Guro Reiten’s late penalty. Is the title race already over?

The panel also discusses Manchester City’s much-needed 4-2 victory over Aston Villa and Tottenham’s dramatic stoppage-time winner against Crystal Palace, which left their opponents in deeper relegation trouble.

First lady’s corporate black-and-white shoot is reminiscent of The Apprentice or House of Cards

At first glance, the official portrait of the returning Flotus – soft power stance, crisp unbuttoned Dolce & Gabbana tux, the Washington monument soaring behind her – scans so neatly with the returning administration that you’d be hard pushed to find any clues as to who Melania 2.0 is.

After all, she also wore a Dolce & Gabbana jacket for the same shot in 2017. The only real change this time is that she swapped the necktie for a black Ralph Lauren cumberband, as if to sprinkle a little alpha patriotism into an otherwise blankly corporate get-up.

• Manager keen to score ‘a lot’ in opening 20 minutes
• Oscar Bobb in contention after five-month injury

Pep Guardiola is approaching Manchester City’s must-win final Champions League group game against Club Brugge with “no emotion” to ensure his players understand precisely how to execute the manager’s game plan.

City are in 25th place, two points behind Stuttgart in the final qualifying position. If Brugge are not defeated, Guardiola’s side will be knocked out of Europe . The City manager is therefore unsurprisingly approaching the match with cold-eyed intent. “We’d like to score goals in the first 20 minutes – a lot,” he said. “But I think it’s not going to happen. The approach is now to read the game you have to play, for them [players] to do. Completely relaxed, not emotional, it’s to understand the game.

Sharon Osbourne says husband excited to be awarded Freedom of Birmingham along with other band members

Being awarded the Freedom of Birmingham “means a lot” to Ozzy Osbourne and the members of Black Sabbath, Sharon Osbourne has said, as the city council is prepares to approve the honour.

Ozzy, alongside the founding band members, Tony Iommi, Terence Butler and Bill Ward, will be given the honorary title in recognition of their service to the city, with councillors expected to give the go ahead on Tuesday.

House deploys elegant visual allegory at Grand Palais to keep its name in lights during design interregnum

Designers come and go, but the Chanel tweed suit is for ever. That was the message from a show marking the 110th anniversary of haute couture at Chanel. The house is in the middle of more than a year of catwalk shows without a designer to take a bow – Virginie Viard made her final appearance last May, and her successor, Matthieu Blazy , will not make his first until October – so it is working overtime to keep the Chanel name in lights.

The catwalk was formed of two broad curving walkways, which together formed the double C that is instantly recognisable as Chanel. But instead of sitting back to back, as in the logo, the two walkways were teased apart into bridges curving up and over each other, interlinking to form a figure of eight in the shape of the infinity symbol.

Miloš Vučević steps down ‘in order to defuse tensions’ as demonstrations continue

Miloš Vučević, the prime minister of Serbia, has resigned, becoming the highest-ranking official to step down amid a wave of anti-corruption protests that have spread across the country.

The anti-government demonstrations sprang up after the roof collapsed at a railway station in the city of Novi Sad, killing 15 people and leading to calls for Vučević to quit.

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World premieres by Olga Neuwirth, Rafael Marina Arcaro and Lara Agar celebrated Pierre Boulez’s centenary, with Maxime Pascal a hyper-expressive conductor

The second of the London Symphony Orchestra’s centenary tributes to Pierre Boulez was conducted by Maxime Pascal . As in the previous instalment , Boulez’s own music – the five orchestral Notations, Nos 1 to 4 and 7, that were completed at the time of his death – made up only a small part of the programme. Yet just as his influence as both composer and conductor pervaded so much of late 20th-century music, so it could be felt through all of Pascal’s programme, in which the three panels of Debussy’s Images – a work that Boulez himself conducted with peerless objectivity and exquisite feeling for its dazzling orchestral palette – were interleaved with three world premieres.

The first and shortest of those new works, commissioned by the LSO, was also the most effective. Olga Neuwirth’s Tombeau II: Hommage à Pierre Boulez, takes as its starting point one of the early piano Notations that Boulez did not orchestrate (the eighth), and turns it into a slow, menacing chorale clouded with microtones and decorated with harmonics and glissandos, which builds remorselessly to an abrupt climax.

Police knew Axel Rudakubana had been referred three times after his arrest last July

The families of those killed or wounded in the Southport attack were not told for six months that the killer had repeatedly been referred to Prevent, the Guardian has learned.

Police knew that Axel Rudakubana had been referred three times to the official scheme aiming to stop people becoming terrorists, less than 24 hours after his arrest at the scene of the atrocity on 29 July 2024.