Round-up of this week's quirky news stories

From an egg the size of a 20p piece, to a pug that weighs little more than a tin of beans and a pub in a shed, great things - and stories - came in small packages this week.

Eight years ago, feeling thirsty, father-of-two, Steve Worrallo cleared his lawnmower and hedge clippers out of his garden shed, and transformed it into a pint-sized pub, complete with bar, snug and lounge.

For authenticity, Steve has added mock-Tudor beams on the ceiling, brasses, high stools along the bar and a disco-style mirror ball for party nights, while his brother's cribbage trophies are also on display – just like your average local.

Elsewhere in garden news speckled hen Becky left her owners shell-shocked when she laid an egg-stra special breakfast treat - a minature egg the size of a 20 pence piece.

"I would never dream of cracking it open, I have just been keeping it wrapped up safe in the fridge, I do not want to get rid of it," said owner Tony Sutton.

Pip the pug weighed just five ounces when born but four months on she is doing well

Slightly larger than a 20p, though not much, is petite pug Pip, who weighs little more than a tin of beans.

Pip was so small when she was born - weighing just five ounces - that her owners feared she would not survive. Luckily Pip has overcome the odds and is doing well at four months.

Florist Paul Mincher with the life size baby rhino, he has made out of flowers

Much larger than Pip, at three feet tall, is a life-size baby rhino made of blu flowers by a Wolverhampton florist.

Paul Mincher used 1,200 cornflowers to make the rhino for a private business event later this year.

Another business going from strength-to-strength is Poundland which has just celebrated its 25th birthday.

Boss, Jim McCarthy, celebrated the milestone at the firm's Willenhall headquarters by burying a time capsule including the chain's stand-out bargains such as a £1 (obviously) Poundland iPhone 5 or 6 charger.

Managing Director Phillip Rolls pictured with son and director Alex at Black Country Snacks, Commercial Road, Walsall

Pork scratchings are another institution which have their beginnings in the Black Country, but now a Lancashire company is hoping to muscle in on the home of the humble pork scratching during a new launch of a regionally inspired take on the favourite snack.

Managing director of Openshaws, David Openshaw, whose family has been in the snack food business for more than 40 years, said: "Retro tastes are now hugely popular again and innovations such as our twice-cooked pork crackling and light and airy pork crunch, which are gentler on the teeth, have very much stimulated the public interest and we believe are a class apart from the rest."