10 Things....

Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience by the BBCi.

1. Rule 2.25 of the Chelsea Flower Show regulations bans entrants from including garden gnomes in their displays. Bunting, balloons and flags are also banned.

2. Wayne Rooney is able to fill his computer-controlled bath by text message.

3. A dinosaur is named after Mark Knopfler because the team of palaeontologists that found it were listening to his music at the time. It's the Masiakasaurus knopfleri.

4. The egg came first. More details

5. Erotomania is the name of the condition in which a person holds a delusional belief that someone is in love with them.

6. Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s. More details

7. There are 220 million vegetarians in India.

8. Special branch officers guarding former Prime Minister Lord Callaghan were frustrated at an unreliable security system on his Sussex farm that was confused by cattle, pigs and dung heaps and allowed a Jehovah's Witness to get all the way to the house and speak to Callaghan undetected.

9. Dry weather makes for less polluted beaches. More details

10. There are 64,726 electronically tagged offenders in the UK.