[JWait]

The heart of the display appears to be...

{insert name="gate" func="news_get_num" assign="all_news"   lngcode=$shop_language}
{section name=newsloop loop=$all_news}
         <div class="newsitem">
          <strong>           {$all_news[newsloop].date|date_format:$config.Appearance.date_format}</strong><br />
  {$all_news[newsloop].body}<br />
      </div>
        {/section}

Try adding that to news.tpl checking first if any of the variables have changed between versions.