Edit: Forgot to mention that my store is in the /store subdirectory... not in the root. I imagine that this might have something to do with my issue. As i'm only moderately geeky, can someone help.. might be useful to others with their stores in subdirectories.. cheers...
I just changed the func.php to 5 and changed my today_news.tpl to your code and this is what I get:
http://www.whistleanddrum.com/today_news.png
Andy ideas?
Best,